Europeana, Europe’s multimedia online library, will soon be open to the public. After an overwhelming public launch (more than 10 million hits per hour), the site crashed and closed. Their website says they will be open for research in January 2009.
At http://www.europeana.eu/portal/, Internet users around the world can now access more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archival documents, paintings and films from national libraries and cultural institutions of the EU’s 27 Member States. Europeana opens up new ways of exploring Europe’s heritage: anyone interested in literature, art, science, politics, history, architecture, music or cinema will have free and fast access to Europe’s greatest collections and masterpieces in a single virtual library through a web portal available in all EU languages. But this is just the beginning. In 2010, Europeana will give access to millions of items representing Europe’s rich cultural diversity and will have interactive zones such as communities for special interests. Between 2009 and 2011, some EUR2 million per year of EU funding will be dedicated to this.
Good news; let me know what you find valuable in this new and long-awaited resource!
– Eliza
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