Massive EU online library looks to compete with Google

November 20, 2008 | Source: PhysOrg.com

The EU launches Thursday its Europeana digital library, an online digest of Europe’s cultural heritage, with millions of digital objects, ranging from film, photographs, paintings, sound files, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, documents and, books.

By 2010, when Europeana is due to be fully operational, the aim is to have 10 million works available. Google claims to have seven million books available for its “Google Book Search” project.