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Europeana
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Europeana is a web portal created by the European Union containing digitised cultural heritage collections of more than 3,000 institutions across Europe. It includes records of over 50 million cultural and scientific artefacts, brought together on a single platform and presented in a variety of ways relevant to modern users. The prototype for Europeana was the European Digital Library Network (EDLnet), launched in 2008.
Key facts
- Website.logo
- Europeana logo 2015 basic.svg
- Website.commercial
- no
- Website.type
- Meta-aggregator and display space for European digitised works
- Website.owner
- Europeana Foundation
- Website.logo_alt
- Europeana logo
- Website.launch_date
- (prototype), (official version 1.0)
- Website.current_status
- Online
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- digital library
- Country
- Netherlands
- Headquarters
- KB, nationale bibliotheek
- Official website
- www.europeana.eu
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- Commons category
- Europeana
- sponsor
- European Commission
- inception
- 2008-11-20
- topic's main category
- Category:Europeana
- search formatter URL
- www.europeana.eu/portal/search?q=$1
- Alexa rank
- 68736
- SPARQL endpoint URL
- sparql.europeana.eu
- social media followers
- 163
- issue tracker URL
- europeana.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portals
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Function and description
- Strategy
- Organisation
- Europeana Network and events
- Europeana projects
- Financing
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Europeana is a web portal created by the European Union containing digitised cultural heritage collections of more than 3,000 institutions across Europe. It includes records of over 50 million cultural and scientific artefacts, brought together on a single platform and presented in a variety of ways relevant to modern users. The prototype for Europeana was the European Digital Library Network (EDLnet), launched in 2008.
The Europeana Foundation is the governing body of the service, and is incorporated under Dutch law as Stichting Europeana.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Europeana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.