I just stumbled on an European research project: Voster, which was about to collect, synthesize etc. some leading projects in the field of virtual enterprise, it lists 24 research projects. Alright, synthesize, sounds good for pedestrians, however, nothing to download. Somebody moved the files, if they were there, and that’s it.
Out of those 24 projects, [...]

The following is a self-archived copy of a previous reply I sent to an EU consultation on facilitating digitization (january 2006):
I have 3 suggestions on facilitating digitization of copyrighted material:
(Publicly funded copyright clause)
Any copyrighted material that has been produced using public money
(directly from a government or indirectly through an agency
administering a budget given by [...]

This is the answer I wrote today to somebody who was interested recently in using Hermes (I fixed the text a bit to make it clearer):
It’s nice to hear Hermes still has a relevance here and there, however, I didn’t touch it since Nov. 2006 and I don’t have any plans to get involved in [...]