COVAX plans to combine document descriptions and digitised surrogates from libraries, archives and museum, to build a global system for search and retrieval. It will allow the widely distributed primary documents to be accessed regardless of their location.

COVAX has four basic aims: dissemination of European Culture Heritage, facilitating access for European citizens to primary sources of intellectual, cultural and scientific heritage stored in archives, libraries and museums; exploitation over the Internet of existing cultural infrastructures; the use of standards in the field of information structure and retrieval and interoperability between systems (interoperable access to distributed resources) based on the complementary capabilities of each partner.

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