Europeana

Europeana
Type of site	Meta-aggregator and display space for European digitised works
Owner	Europeana Foundation
URL	europeana.eu/en
Commercial	no
Launched	November 20, 2008 (prototype), February 2009 (official version 1.0)
Current status	Online

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.

The Europeana Foundation is the governing body of the service, and is incorporated under Dutch law as Stichting Europeana.