Cultural history from over 2000 years in Europe is becoming digitzed on a large scale.
The Europeana.eu site is a part of the European Union online library project that is set to rival Google and aims to create a centralized resouce for accessing European history, art, movies, music and literature.
Items have been collected from 1000 museums, galleries, national libraries and archives to allow users access to paintings books, audio, videos, maps and other items all in 1 site.
The site is available in 23 languages and already has 3 million artifacts, with projected growth to 10 million. In general, apparently only 1% of the known European artifacts have been digitized.
Unlike Google Book Search, this site isn’t built for commercial purposes and covers much more than books. It is also likely to encourage museum visits since it gives a good idea of what’s available there.
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