Europeana is a search platform to a collection of European digital libraries with digitised paintings, books, films and archives. The project was initiated by the European Commission.

The prototype contained around two million digital items, all of them already in the public domain. More than 50% of the initial content was supplied from France, 10% from UK, 1.4% from Spain, and 1% from Germany. The project aims to have 10 million works by 2010, when Europeana is due to be fully operational.