Open Access to European Cultural Heritage Online ECHO provides an array of interesting offerings. The open access infrastructure is intended 'for a Future Web of Culture and Science'. Greek science books and manuscripts from 1600 - 1821 are digitalised

Materials on to the Canary Islands scientific voyages in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries also feature illustrations.

'The Virtual Laboratory is a platform where historians publish and discuss their research on experimentation in the life sciences, art, and technology'. Images, documents and essays can be accessed.

A timeline provides for an alternative entry route. The project was funded by the European Commission. The Berlin declaration of open access to knowledge in the sciences and humanities makes for informative reading.

The Artikel '"Memories for life" Managing information over a human lifetime', (pdf) by Andrew Fitzgibbon and Ehud Reiter concerns itself with the need to store, search and model all our vast amounts of digital information for life.

"This tsunami of data presents numerous challenges to computer science, including: how to physically store such "digital memories" over decades; how to protect privacy, especially when data such as photos may involve more than one person; how to extract useful knowledge from this rich library of information; how to use this knowledge effectively, for example in knowledge-based systems; and how to effectively present memories and knowledge to different kinds of users. The unifying grand challenge is to manage this data, these digital memories, for the benefit of human life and for a lifetime."