EU member states have more than three million books, paintings and films for the EU project Europeana online. The Brussels-funded digital library holds after its opening, however, the onslaught of Internet users not stand. And not every country makes with the same passion with.The first joint digital library of the EU countries has gone online - and users saw first: nothing. Because the computers of online offerings Europeana were initially completely overloaded, so that the europeana.eu site on the Internet browser could not be opened.
"We would have liked in our wildest dreams can not imagine that there is such a rush to Europeana there," said EU Media Commissioner Viviane Reding in Brussels. In the first hours after its activation would have more than ten million Internet users to access them. The number of servers has been from three to six doubles.
The digital library offers more than three million books, paintings, photos and movies, including original works of Mozart and the Magna Carta, documents on Wall case in Germany 1989, works by Descartes, Dante and Vermeer - the rich heritage of Europeans, as is the case EU says proudly.
By the year 2010, Europe's digital library even ten million historical testimonies and works of art in all EU languages present. "Europeana offers the chance to the rich treasures of the European cultural area and its strong network of all historical and political developments across visible," says Elisabeth Niggemann, the chairwoman of the carrier Foundation European Digital Library Foundation.
German works make up one percent from the Europeana
Who after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) examined may be based on the portal, for example, paintings of the Austrian composer and the birth certificates of his children as well as more than a hundred recordings, or the drama "Mozart and Salieri" of the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin found.
More than 1000 archives, museums and libraries across Europe contributed so far digitized material. The 27 member states, however, are represented very differently. Just over half of all scanned works comes from France. Germany's contribution makes only about one percent of the virtual collection. Countries such as Malta, Denmark and Bulgaria are significantly lower.
"We can not and must not in the countries of the digitization of help, this is a very own cultural-political field," said Commission spokesman Martin Selmayr. The EU wants in the next two years, but further 119 million euros to facilitate the exploration and development of technologies for digitizing forward.The Slovakia voted with the money, for example, a former military complex with three robots, which automatically scan book pages. The objects are digitized by a team of archivists, librarians and IT specialists in the Royal Library in The Hague organized, networked and Europeana provided.
What arrived on the platform, the museums themselves decide you are also just that copyright is respected. For the maintenance of the portal pays the Commission each year two million euro, the member countries still shoot a total of 500,000 euros once added.
So far, only one percent of all European cultural digitized. To the figure of ten million plants by 2010, the states after estimation of the Commission further 350 million euros in hand.
That the Internet Archive museums in Europe one day, visitors make abspenstig could not believe those responsible. "Museum on Europeana fans can find out where their favorite paintings hang," said the spokesman of the portal, John Purday. A Dutch study had shown that such offers an interest in museums, on the contrary, more awake.The presumption that Europeana a rival digital collection of books from Google could be far, the Commission itself. "Europeana is not a European response to a commercial project," says Selmayr. "Just as a bookstore and library are not in competition." Google offers an advanced search engine for books. Europeana however, was a multimedia museum.
"We would have liked in our wildest dreams can not imagine that there is such a rush to Europeana there," said EU Media Commissioner Viviane Reding in Brussels. In the first hours after its activation would have more than ten million Internet users to access them. The number of servers has been from three to six doubles.
The digital library offers more than three million books, paintings, photos and movies, including original works of Mozart and the Magna Carta, documents on Wall case in Germany 1989, works by Descartes, Dante and Vermeer - the rich heritage of Europeans, as is the case EU says proudly.
By the year 2010, Europe's digital library even ten million historical testimonies and works of art in all EU languages present. "Europeana offers the chance to the rich treasures of the European cultural area and its strong network of all historical and political developments across visible," says Elisabeth Niggemann, the chairwoman of the carrier Foundation European Digital Library Foundation.
German works make up one percent from the Europeana
Who after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) examined may be based on the portal, for example, paintings of the Austrian composer and the birth certificates of his children as well as more than a hundred recordings, or the drama "Mozart and Salieri" of the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin found.
More than 1000 archives, museums and libraries across Europe contributed so far digitized material. The 27 member states, however, are represented very differently. Just over half of all scanned works comes from France. Germany's contribution makes only about one percent of the virtual collection. Countries such as Malta, Denmark and Bulgaria are significantly lower.
"We can not and must not in the countries of the digitization of help, this is a very own cultural-political field," said Commission spokesman Martin Selmayr. The EU wants in the next two years, but further 119 million euros to facilitate the exploration and development of technologies for digitizing forward.The Slovakia voted with the money, for example, a former military complex with three robots, which automatically scan book pages. The objects are digitized by a team of archivists, librarians and IT specialists in the Royal Library in The Hague organized, networked and Europeana provided.
What arrived on the platform, the museums themselves decide you are also just that copyright is respected. For the maintenance of the portal pays the Commission each year two million euro, the member countries still shoot a total of 500,000 euros once added.
So far, only one percent of all European cultural digitized. To the figure of ten million plants by 2010, the states after estimation of the Commission further 350 million euros in hand.
That the Internet Archive museums in Europe one day, visitors make abspenstig could not believe those responsible. "Museum on Europeana fans can find out where their favorite paintings hang," said the spokesman of the portal, John Purday. A Dutch study had shown that such offers an interest in museums, on the contrary, more awake.The presumption that Europeana a rival digital collection of books from Google could be far, the Commission itself. "Europeana is not a European response to a commercial project," says Selmayr. "Just as a bookstore and library are not in competition." Google offers an advanced search engine for books. Europeana however, was a multimedia museum.
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