Europeana
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Not to be confused with Europiana.
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.
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Type of site | Meta-aggregator and display space for European digitised works |
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Owner | Europeana Foundation |
URL | europeana |
Commercial | no |
Launched | November 20, 2008; 15 years ago (2008-11-20) (prototype), February 2009; 15 years ago (2009-02) (official version 1.0) |
Current status | Online |
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The Europeana Foundation is the governing body of the service, and is incorporated under Dutch law as Stichting Europeana.