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Wednesday, 9th September 2009

Europeana: Eastern Europe Dawdles in Digital Culture

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Europeana is still officially in the development phase, and will be until 2013, by which time the European Commission would like to see it at least partly self-financed. Admittedly, comparisons with Google Books are unfair since Europeana's total budget for its first three years, about 10 million euros, isn't much more than just the bonuses awarded to five Google executives this year. Think of Google Books as a confident teenager striding toward adulthood; Europeana at this point looks more like a youngster who's just dipped into the parents' booze supply.

Case in point: enter Charles Dickens in the search engine and you get about 125 items in total. Click down to what you're led to believe is the English-language material and links pop up to 14 texts – all in Hungarian. You can find the full text of a nicely illustrated 19th-century American edition of Dickens' travel books, but only by browsing through the offerings tagged as being in French. Search for "cubism" and Europeana delivers a dozen reproductions of mediocre paintings.

Source: BusinessWeek

See Also: We Have Posted Many Times About Europeana on ResourceShelf. Here are a few of the most recent posts:

1) Next Steps for Europeana’: Database Doubles in Size But Also Shows EU’s Lack of Common Web Copyright Solution (Posted 8/31)

2) ‘EuropeanaConnect’ opens door to Europe’s sound collections (Posted 8/18)


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