Multilingual Access to Digital Libraries: The Europeana Use Case

The article determines multilingual access features in digital libraries with a special focus on cultural heritage digital libraries. An analysis of existing information systems in the GLAM-domain (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) was conducted to establish and collect solutions for searching, browsing and interacting with multilingual content. In particular, Europeana, the European digital library, archive and museum for cultural heritage was studied with a focus on multilingual interactions. Challenges and recommendations for the implementation of multilingual access features are presented and discussed.