NDLI: 1990 EC directive may become driving force

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Billingsley, Pat
Abstract	Amid the political turmoil surrounding the establishment of the European Economic Community (EC), a relatively unknown EC directive has assumed a growing importance for vendors of computer hardware and software. In May 1990, the Council of European Communities issued Directive 90/270, which lays down "minimum safety and health requirements for work with display terminals." The Annex to the directive states that, among other requirements, software must be suitable for the task, easy to use, and adaptable to the operator, and that the principles of software ergonomics must be applied. In spite of this somewhat ambiguous wording, EC member nations are required to adopt laws, regulations, and administrative provisions that comply with the directive by 31 December 1992.
Starting Page	14
Ending Page	18
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISSN	07366906
DOI	10.1145/157203.157205
Journal	ACM SIGCHI Bulletin (SGCH)
Volume Number	25
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1992-07-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

1990 EC directive may become driving force