Hi all, for some of you it will be interesting to hear that the European Community launches the prototype of a a new digital library, containing 2 million digital objects, "including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers".
And: "The intention is that by 2010 the Europeana portal will give everybody direct access to well over 6 million" digital materials. See http://dev.europeana.eu/about.php For users it will enable a simultaneous thematic search on different levels. What I read is that licensing issues are not yet clarified. Content themes for the prototype contain Cities, Social life, Music, Crime and punishment as well asTravel and tourism. The date of launch has been shifted to mid-December due to technical problems (The interest was too big, the servers could not stand 10 million hits per hour). Viva libre. Günther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
