For users:
Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe. It is an authoritative source of information coming from European cultural and scientific institutions.
For heritage institutions:
Europeana is an opportunity to reach out to more users, increase their web traffic, enhance their users' experience and build new partnerships.
For professionals in the heritage sector:
Europeana is a platform for knowledge exchange between librarians, curators, archivists and the creative industries.
For policy-makers and funders:
Europeana is a prestigious initiative endorsed by the European Commission, and is a means to stimulate creative economy and promote cultural tourism.
one of the pioneers of the cross-disciplinary marriage of origami with mathematics. He is noted for designs of great detail and realism, and includes in his repertoire some of the most complex origami designs ever created.
In Japanese, O is a prefix denoting respect, and bakemono literally means a changed thing - something perverted and altered and moved beyond its natural state - a monster.
Draw Freely, Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, etc
aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use All graphics submitted to the project should be placed into the Public Domain according to the statement by the Creative Commons.
9 drawings done by an artist under the influence of LSD -- part of a test conducted by the US government during it's dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950's.
professional artists draw their own version of a chosen fictional character. "11.3 Kid Creatures" is great (professional artists' interpretations of children's drawings)
people, out of an overabundance of creativity or just a love of the game (or hate of the publishers components), make homemade versions of the game with exceptionally good components.
works by recording the images produced by an adaptive optics front-end at high speed (20 frames per second or more). Software then checks each one to pick the sharpest ones.
a celebration of fascinating devices that don't work. It houses diverse examples of the perverse genius of inventors who refused to let their thinking be intimidated by the laws of nature, remaining optimistic in the face of repeated failures.