EUROPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARY OFFLINE UNTIL DECEMBER AS TECHNICIANS EXPAND SERVER CAPACITY
November 1st, 2008
BY ALAN OSBORN
THE LONG-AWAITED European digital library Europeana was launched last Thursday (November 20) but you had to be quick off the mark to learn anything from it: within hours the site had to be closed after its on-line servers proved unable to cope with the volume of demand. It will be back "bigger and better" by mid-December said the European Commission's information society spokesman Martin Selmayr.
"There are no technical faults," he told the Bookseller. "The three servers could not cope with demand in the region of ten ...
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