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Europeana website overwhelmed on its first day by interest of millions of users (21 November 2008)On the first day of its launch, Europe's digital library Europeana was overwhelmed by the interest shown by millions of users in this new project. On the basis of expert advice, Europeana had anticipated up to 5 million hits per hour on the site. The real interest was 3 times as strong. This massive interest slowed down the service so much that after having already doubled server capacity yesterday at noon, the Europeana management in The Hague (Netherlands) and the European Commission last night had to temporarily take down the site to take pressure off it. This is an unexpected difficulty, but it is also an encouraging sign that citizens in Europe and around the world have great interest in Europe's digital library. It also provides strong motivation for the Europeana team and the experts from the Commission working on the project to intensify their efforts and the site's technical back-up even further. Europeana must now be made more robust to deal with peak hour requests as they happened yesterday - thousands of users searching in the very same second for famous cultural works like the Mona Lisa or books from Kafka, Cervantes or James Joyce. The European Commission and the experts from the Europeana project are working on this day and night to make a fully functional Europeana service available as soon as possible. The Commission and the Europeana management are confident that Europeana will be up and running again by mid-December.For the time being, a demo version of Europeana will be available at http://dev.europeana.eu/ .
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
e-Inclusion Ministerial Conference
30 November 2008 - 2 December 2008 Vienna, AustriaThis Ministerial Conference is the biggest e-inclusion event ever organised in Europe. Around 1200 delegates are expected to attend. 6 plenary sessions, 20 parallel sessions, 10 workshops will be organised. The conference will be complemented by a large scale exhibition with more than 90 exhibitors. Jointly organised by the European Commission and the Austrian Government, the conference is the culmination of many activities and actions that have taken place across Europe as part of the ' e-Inclusion: be part of it!' campaign organised by the European Commission. It is an opportunity to celebrate achievements and showcase successes in the field of e-Inclusion, including the seven winners of the European e-Inclusion Awards. It also represents an opportunity to take stock of what still lies ahead and renew the commitments to achieve inclusion in the information society for all.
NEWS ARTICLE
ICT Proposers' Day 2009 - start networking (21 November 2008)Come to the ICT Proposers' Day in Budapest on 22 January 2009 and build quality partnerships for participating in the new ICT Work Programme for 2009-2010. This one day event is a unique opportunity for existing and future project participants to familiarise themselves with the research challenges and objectives of ICT WP 2009-2010 and to form project consortia for participating in calls for proposals. The event is all about networking. You can already use the web site to post comments, submit expressions of interest for the different objectives of the work programme and contact potential partners.
Networking at the event: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/budapest_2009/networking/index_en.htm
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