Thursday, November 20, 2008

"Europeana," a new online encyclopedia of European culture, is now open...

A new online encyclopedia of European culture, called "Europeana," is set to debut in November. It's a rival to the Google Library Project, but also something else -- the start of a vast digital backup copy of what's in Europe's libraries, museums and national film collections.

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Not just a page with some facts and figures; the EU has plenty of those. What an EU commissioner has in mind is a rich digital encyclopedia of Europe's cultural heritage. "Europeana" is an ambitious project to digitize large portions of the continent's national libraries and put as much of European civilization as possible -- books, maps, paintings, photos, films -- online for free. Click here for Europeana...

See also:

  1. World's oldest Bible, Codex Sinaiticus, to go online...
  2. An abandoned library in Russia..
  3. A list of 100 must-read books...

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