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New European online library to remain down until January
AFP - 2 hours 39 minutes ago
BRUSSELS (AFP) - - The European Union's new Europeana digital library will remain down until January after crashing within hours of its launch last month due to surging interest, the website said Tuesday.
"We are doing our utmost to reopen Europeana in a more robust version as soon as possible," it said on its website. "We will be operational again in the course of January."
The online collection of Europe's cultural heritage was launched on November 21 to great fanfare but was swamped by an unexpected 10 million user hits per hour, swiftly bringing the system to a crashing halt.
The site said at the time that it would be back by mid-December.
Inspired by ancient Alexandria's attempt to collect the world's knowledge, the Europeana project will use the latest technologies to allow users anywhere access to films, paintings, photographs, sound recordings, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, and documents as well as books kept in European libraries.
Users will be able to find major literary works like Dante's "Divine Comedy", or masterpieces such as Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" or the manuscripts of composers including Beethoven.
With 14 staff members and at an annual cost put at around 2.5 million euros (3.2 million dollars), Europeana -- which can be found at www.europeana.eu -- has more humble beginnings, despite the massive interest.
The prototype which was launched, briefly, last month contains around two million digital items, all of them already in the public domain, as the most recent items are plagued by problems linked to copyright and their use online.
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