[lit-ideas] Europeana

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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