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More on Europeana
We at the Brussels Connection are quite taken with the Europeana Project - the digital library designed to showcase Europe’s history, literature, arts and science.
In previous issues we talked about the birth, the near death and subsequent resurrection of the portal. We thought we’d update you on the latest information provided by the Commission on the project. Rest assured our pestering you to log is for purely scientific reasons.
What’s New
The Europeana now gives you access to more than 4.6 million digitised items ( as opposed to the initial 2 million) from museums, libraries, audiovisual and other archives across Europe. Over 1,000 cultural organisations from across Europe have provided material to Europeana. The digitised objects come from all 27 EU countries (with 47% of it coming from France), although for some of them content is very limited at this stage.
Since the launch in November 2008, new collections have been added from amongst other countries Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania and Spain. These include a collection of incunabula (books printed with the earliest printing techniques) from the library of Catalonia, a set of images of the early 20th century covering all towns and villages in Belgium from the University library in Ghent, a series of children's books from the Polish digital library, sound fragments of Mozart's works from the Austrian national library, a collection of historic postcards from Italy, paintings of Romanian artists from the Romanian institute for cultural heritage, and a collection of 18th and 19th century travel books in French, German and English from the state and university library of Göttingen.
Happy browsing.
http://www.europeana.eu
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