November 24, 2008

Europeana crashes at opening

by Brian Turner

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Europeana, the much vaunted European library, which if memory serves was intended at least in part as a rival for Google Books, crashed at opening – and is now closed until sometime “mid-December”.

Anyone visiting europeana.eu gets the message:

” The Europeana site is temporarily not accessible due to overwhelming interest after its launch (10 million hits per hour).

We are doing our utmost to reopen Europeana in a more robust version as soon as possible.

We will be back by mid-December. ”

A development site is still accessible here – http://dev.europeana.eu/

More robust version? Don’t say they pushed with heavy multimedia in the original version?

Either way, not a good start to the Europeana project.

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