Europeana
The Europeana web site received around 10 million hits an hour

Europeana culture web site crashes at launch

Project seriously underestimates demand

Rosalie Marshall in San Francisco

A two-year digital library project funded by the European Commission has run into difficulties hours after its online launch, and may not be back up until mid-December.

The Europeana library will offer around two million digitised books, films, paintings, newspapers and sound recordings from Europe's greatest collections.

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But the web site buckled after receiving around 10 million hits an hour. "We are doing our utmost to reopen Europeana in a more robust version as soon as possible," says an announcement on the web site.

A preview of the library can be seen on the Europeana Project Development Site, although only in English. Europeana will offer a multilingual interface when fully up and running.

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