Name: Anonymous 2008-11-19 22:30
European online library launches
The British Library in London is among more than 1,000 cultural organisations making contributions to a European online library.
The free multimedia venture, Europeana, will also see input from the European Commission and the Louvre Museum.
Internet users will be able to access more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archive documents, paintings and films.
These will be sourced from institutions across the EU's member states.
Further expansion for the project, which was created by the European Commission and is run by the European Digital Library Foundation, is planned for 2010.
The British Library has contributed audio recordings, images and texts to Europeana. These range from the Gutenberg Bible to the sound of a curlew on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7738318.stm
http://dev.europeana.eu/
FUCK YEAH!
The British Library in London is among more than 1,000 cultural organisations making contributions to a European online library.
The free multimedia venture, Europeana, will also see input from the European Commission and the Louvre Museum.
Internet users will be able to access more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archive documents, paintings and films.
These will be sourced from institutions across the EU's member states.
Further expansion for the project, which was created by the European Commission and is run by the European Digital Library Foundation, is planned for 2010.
The British Library has contributed audio recordings, images and texts to Europeana. These range from the Gutenberg Bible to the sound of a curlew on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7738318.stm
http://dev.europeana.eu/
FUCK YEAH!