The European digital library European, that Thursday was open to the public, had to close less than 24 hours later due to "excessive popularity," and should only re-open "in the middle of December ", Says the site's library.
"We will try our best to reopen the European, a more robust version as soon as possible," he promised even the managers of the site.
The "sad decision" to close a European was taken Thursday afternoon, when traffic reached 20 million clicks per hour, said a spokesman of the European Commission. "The demand was too much, European was unprepared."
The creators of Eupeana had predicted a traffic five million visitors per hour.
This virtual library, which aims to be the European response to Google, account books, maps, recordings, photographs, documents, archives, paintings and films of the acquis of the national libraries and cultural institutions of the 27 EU member states, with the example of Portugal to charter plane from the coast of Brazil, a map of 1784.
Available in all EU languages, through www.europeana.eu address, the library has European Multimedia materials provided by more than 1,000 cultural organizations throughout Europe, including museums, like the Louvre in Paris, who provided scans of paintings and objects in their collections.
"With the European, reconcile the competitive edge of Europe in the field of communication technologies and networks with the richness of our cultural heritage. The Europeans will now be able to access quickly and easily in a single space, the formidable resources of our great collections" , Said the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
For its part, the European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding, called "the cultural institutions, publishers and technology companies in Europe to the European feeder with more content in digital format."
"We will try our best to reopen the European, a more robust version as soon as possible," he promised even the managers of the site.
The "sad decision" to close a European was taken Thursday afternoon, when traffic reached 20 million clicks per hour, said a spokesman of the European Commission. "The demand was too much, European was unprepared."
The creators of Eupeana had predicted a traffic five million visitors per hour.
This virtual library, which aims to be the European response to Google, account books, maps, recordings, photographs, documents, archives, paintings and films of the acquis of the national libraries and cultural institutions of the 27 EU member states, with the example of Portugal to charter plane from the coast of Brazil, a map of 1784.
Available in all EU languages, through www.europeana.eu address, the library has European Multimedia materials provided by more than 1,000 cultural organizations throughout Europe, including museums, like the Louvre in Paris, who provided scans of paintings and objects in their collections.
"With the European, reconcile the competitive edge of Europe in the field of communication technologies and networks with the richness of our cultural heritage. The Europeans will now be able to access quickly and easily in a single space, the formidable resources of our great collections" , Said the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
For its part, the European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding, called "the cultural institutions, publishers and technology companies in Europe to the European feeder with more content in digital format."
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