Im Beitrag „The missing decades: the 20th century black hole in Europeana“ wird eine deutlcihe Lücke im digitalisierten Material festgestellt:
… Collections that consist of works dating from the 20th century or that contain large proportions of works from that period are available online to a much lesser degree than collections from the periods before or after the 20th century. …
… While we cannot show a causal relationship between this and the way copyright law interacts with digitization efforts by cultural heritage institutions, feedback from Europeana data partners makes it clear that many cultural heritage institutions tend to avoid digitizing 20th century collections because of their often complicated copyright status. …
Der ganze Beitrag: http://pro.europeana.eu/blogpost/the-missing-decades-the-20th-century-black-hole-in-europeana