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Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Nederland)
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The National Library of the Netherlands is based in The Hague and was founded in 1798. King Louis Bonaparte gave the library its name of the Royal Library in 1806. It has been known as the National Library of the Netherlands since 1982, the institution became independent of the state in 1996, although it is financed by the Department of Education, Culture and Science. In 2004, the National Library of the Netherlands contained 3,300,000 items, most items in the collection are books. There are also pieces of literature, where the author, publisher, or date may not be apparent. The collection contains almost the entire literature of the Netherlands, from medieval manuscripts to modern scientific publications, for a publication to be accepted, it must be from a registered Dutch publisher. The collection is accessible for members, any person aged 16 years or older can become a member. One day passes are also available, requests for material take approximately 30 minutes. The KB hosts several open access websites, including the Memory of the Netherlands, list of libraries in the Netherlands European Library Nederlandse Centrale Catalogus Media related to Koninklijke Bibliotheek at Wikimedia Commons Official website
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Website
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A website is a collection of related web pages, including multimedia content, typically identified with a common domain name, and published on at least one web server. A website may be accessible via a public Internet Protocol network, such as the Internet, or a local area network. Websites have many functions and can be used in various fashions, a website can be a website, a commercial website for a company. Websites are typically dedicated to a topic or purpose, ranging from entertainment and social networking to providing news. All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web, while private websites, Web pages, which are the building blocks of websites, are documents, typically composed in plain text interspersed with formatting instructions of Hypertext Markup Language. They may incorporate elements from other websites with suitable markup anchors, Web pages are accessed and transported with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, which may optionally employ encryption to provide security and privacy for the user. The users application, often a web browser, renders the page content according to its HTML markup instructions onto a display terminal. Hyperlinking between web pages conveys to the reader the site structure and guides the navigation of the site, Some websites require user registration or subscription to access content. As of 2016 end users can access websites on a range of devices, including desktop and laptop computers, tablet computers, smartphones, the World Wide Web was created in 1990 by the British CERN physicist Tim Berners-Lee. On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to use for anyone, before the introduction of HTML and HTTP, other protocols such as File Transfer Protocol and the gopher protocol were used to retrieve individual files from a server. These protocols offer a directory structure which the user navigates and chooses files to download. Documents were most often presented as text files without formatting. Websites have many functions and can be used in various fashions, a website can be a website, a commercial website. Websites can be the work of an individual, a business or other organization, any website can contain a hyperlink to any other website, so the distinction between individual sites, as perceived by the user, can be blurred. Websites are written in, or converted to, HTML and are accessed using a software interface classified as a user agent. Web pages can be viewed or otherwise accessed from a range of computer-based and Internet-enabled devices of various sizes, including computers, laptops, PDAs. A website is hosted on a system known as a web server. These terms can refer to the software that runs on these systems which retrieves
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Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau
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The Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau is the largest news agency in the Netherlands. ANP was founded on December 11,1934 by the association of Dutch newspapers, the news agency’s founders sought to produce a fast, fair and accurate alternative to the existing commercial news agencies. In 2000, the foundation was transformed into a private company, in 2003 NPM Capital, the private equity firm of the Dutch family owned conglomerate SHV, bought 60% of the shares from the publishers PCM Uitgevers, Telegraaf Media Groep en Wegener. Within a year NPM sold 15% of the shares to the equity firm Halder. A minority stake remained in the hands of the Dutch newspapers, with 140 reporters, correspondents, editors and photographers ANP produces over 160.000 news articles a year, accompanied by 600.000 photos. The ANP Multimedia staff airs radio bulletins and edits news for online media, ANP Video produces news footage for television and major news websites. Throughout a network of correspondents and news agencies ANP delivers foreign news to its customers. The daily production consists of general, political, financial, sports, a selection in English is available through NIS News Bulletin. The archives of ANP Photo consist of over 1 million digital images and 2,5 million slides, ANP owns the archives of the former Dutch photoagencies Kippa and Benelux Press. The staff of 220 people is headquartered in Rijswijk, just outside The Hague, with bureaus in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, ANP represents the news agencies Agence France-Presse, Deutsche Presse Agentur, EFE and Belga
