Back Online…Europeana

The European Union’s new Europeana digital library reopened on Tuesday after crashing within hours of its launch last month due to surging interest.

European Commission spokesman Martin Selmayr said the website was working after its server capacity had been quadrupled and it had been stress-tested to deal with user interest.

However, a message on the site said that “the user experience may not be optimal in this test phase” and as a result “the number of users will be limited in peak times.” Google News.