[lit-ideas] Europeana
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- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:53:59 +0100
Antidote to television?
I keep hearing reports that young people are moving away from
television to the internet, so perhaps the fact that they don't get,
say, Lisa Batiashvili's rousing rendition of her father's arrangements
of Tsintsadze's 'Miniatures on TV doesn't matter much anymore.
I know there's a lot of trash on the net as well - but there are also
sites such as
http://dev.europeana.eu/home.php
Unfortunately, for the next little while all you can read there is the
following:
Popularity brings the site down
We launched the European.eu site on 20 November and huge use
- 10 million hits an hour - meant it crashed. We are doing our
best
to reopen Europeana.eu in a more robust version.
Meanwhile, the site you're in now is the project development site,
with a video to give you a taste of what's on the real Europeana
site.
Unfortunately this project site is only in English: the real
Europeana
is in all EU languages.
The video certainly wets the appetite - and the site promises that:
The real Europeana site will reopen soon, linking you to 3.5
million
digital treasures. We'll be bringing you digitised books,
films, paintings,
newspapers, sounds and archives from Europe’s greatest
collections.
For now, salivate over the video, and stay tuned .....
Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany
P.S. The address given above is for the Europeana *project
development* website. The actual Europeana website address is
http://www.europeana.eu
-cb
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