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Europe’s heritage went digital on Thursday when the European Union launched an online library putting famous works such as Dante’s "Divine Comedy" and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony just a mouse click away.
Europeana (www.europeana.eu) gives multilingual access to two million digitised books and other items of cultural and historical significance held in over 1,000 institutions in the 27 EU states.
Soon after its launch the website froze, its servers overwhelmed by volume of 10 million hits an hour. Europeana’s director, Jill Cousins, says the new portal is not just Europe’s answer to portals such as Google Book Search, but goes a step further.
The online library plans to offer access to 10 million works by 2010. So far, just over half the 2 million items that are accessible are from France.
