When I read about the new Europeana site, I just couldn't wait to click by.
Culture! Europe! A lot of cool French stuff! A huge digital library!
It sounded like just the sort of site I had been waiting for:
"Europeana combines the digital resources of museums and libraries, and the information provided includes paintings, maps, videos and newspapers," reports Stephen Castle in the November 19th New York Times. "Material is free of copyright so it can be downloaded for blogs, research or schoolwork by anyone with an Internet connection."
How great does that sound?
So great that the site has been receiving 10 million hits per hour, leaving it inoperational as I write:
"We launched the Europeana.eu site on 20 November and huge use - 10 million hits an hour - meant it crashed. We are doing our best to reopen Europeana.eu in a more robust version."
I can't wait!
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