. E uropeana just opened its doors, or rear doors, the general public. As Archivalia , I had hopes of finding a place to put the common European fund to match the best reasonable comprehensive collections of books and documents on the Internet. The thing that has not happened.
Before moving on, that will be impatient, I leave the link so that you can do with an account and login, you only have to click here . [Update on November 17 seems to have realized the server was redirecting traffic from this backdoor. Now we have to wait to 20.]
After a couple enter and search you will see which is much more private funds into account, such as Gallica, for example, or many that I reviewed a couple of weeks here . Europeana is true that offers a kind of social motive to establish communities and interest groups, but the truth is that is so poor and so poorly designed that directly what it does is pull back. As far as the indexing of information, categorization and others, expected a much more serious, even working properly labeling texts. On the images and documents, other than mentioned Graf, the truth is that they are ridiculous, tiny and poorly rendered. The edition of the Oxford Gutenberg Bibles are infinitely better, or directly, are-in their original location on this site. And so a large etcetera.
In short, wait for the official launch on the 20th to see what happens. Although to warn that next year the site will not be fully functional. For now you can access from the link that I have set. At first.
I await your feedback.
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