Fleur writes: Following the launch of Europeana, many are finding their way to the office in The Hague and ask us all kinds of questions. Maybe this post helps a bit in finding the answers….But before I do, may I please remind you that Europeana and The European Library are two different services…? (please note “view of a bird” for further info)
Europeana.eu went live last Thursday 20 November. As an unprecedented number of people immediately visited Europeana, the site came to a standstill. Technical developers, among others colleagues Sjoerd and Eric, are working long hours to create a more robust version. Mid December the site will be reopened. If you now enter http://www.europeana.eu you are redirected to the project development site. Here you can find all kinds of information and also a video that gives a preview of what’s on the real Europeana site.
One of the resources you can find on the project website is a link to the European Commission press briefing which was held November 21. During this briefing, Martin Selmayr, Spokesperson of European Commission, Information Society and Media gave an update on Europeana and also answered all kinds of questions, such as…
1. Why do you need a couple of weeks to come back?
2. Are you going to inform the registered users of Europeana when the site is back up?
You can watch the press briefing via http://ec.europa.eu/streamebs/cgi/ebs.pl?p=74197&s=131659&key=D6FD54F7F2356D2AAD211284F5348E4045B80466
Further, if you are wondering what kind of film footage is available for TV companies, please follow this link. It mainly shows how digitization takes place.
Welcome Europeana!
November 27, 2008 at 10:45 am
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