Colour recovery Colour recovery Colour recovery (or colour restoration) is a process which can restore lost colour, specifically to television programmes which were originally transmitted from colour video tape, but for which only black & white copies remain archived. Not to be confused with colourisation, colour recovery is a newer process and is fundamentally different from colourisation for several reasons. Firstly, colour recovery can only be performed if the originally transmitted colour signal can be reconstructed or recovered from some source, whereas this is not usually the case for traditional colourisation. Secondly, colourisation can be used to colourise films and programmes that
EGovernment in Europe in the IDABC programme's management committee and in many expert groups. This made the programme a unique forum for the coordination of national eGovernment policies. By using state-of-the-art information and communication technologies, developing common solutions and services and by finally, providing a platform for the exchange of good practice between public administrations, IDABC contributed to the i2010 initiative of modernising the European public sector. IDABC was a Community programme managed by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Informatics. In 2008, IDABC launched the Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe (SEMIC.EU). eGovernment and other pan-European collaborations can exchange their knowledge and their visions on