What is the Europeana Cloud project doing and why? Find out in this presentation from Alastair Dunning, project coordinator, from The European Library.

1. Europeana Cloud
Alastair Dunning, The European Library
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-cloud
#cloud_EU / @europeana_cloud

2. Two challenges
for the Europeana
ecosystem

3. 1) Making metadata richer
2) Getting more users of that
metadata (and the related
content)

4. Europeana Cloud aims to address these
challenges

5. Current
situation for
metadata
aggregation
Europeana
Aggregator
Aggregator
<---- Data Providers--->

6. The situation does
not fully exploit the
value of the
Europeana network
and its metadata and
content
Europeana
Aggregator
Aggregator
<---- Data Providers--->

7. Europeana Cloud
project tries to
rethink this situation
Europeana
Polish Digital Libraries
Federation
The European Library
Testing and building a
shared infrastructure Europeana Cloud

8. These three aggregators are piloting the Europeana Cloud system
The European Library – 120m items of
bibliographic records, 20m metadata items *
Polish Digital Library Federation – 1.5m
metadata items
Europeana – 30m metadata items
* - metadata items refer to metadata records
that points to a digitised object

9. Europeana Cloud allows members to
Europeana
Polish Digital Libraries
Federation
The European Library
Upload metadata to a shared system
Define who can use that metadata and in what ways
(download, edit, delete, annotate)

10. Europeana Cloud allows third parties to
Europeana
Polish Digital Libraries
Federation
The European Library
Access that metadata, via APIs, according to conditions of owner
(download, edit, delete, annotate)

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Questions to be asked:
Does
eCloud make it easier to
share data, especially with
Europeana?
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Questions to be asked:
Can members
create sub-aggregations tailored
for specific use ? (e.g. all metadata on
archaeology)
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Questions to be asked:
Can third
parties enrich metadata in
eCloud? (e.g find place names,
make links, convert formats)
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Questions to be asked:
Will
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15. But that is not all!

16. We will also investigate how we can build end-user
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In particular for researchers in
humanities and social sciences

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The project will
experiment with the
ingestion of content for
use in research
APIs for third
parties
Tools and
terfaces for
in
researchers

18. In scope for the project (Europeana Research):
Developers will work with APIs give access to the data in
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APIs for third
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19. In scope for the project (Europeana Research):
From this third-party development work, tools for specific research
communities will be available
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APIs for third
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20. In scope for the project (Europeana Research):
Together, these APIs and tools will form Europeana
Research platform
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21. In long term, eCloud will allow others to build tools on the data it
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22. Europeana Cloud project also addresses

23. Governance: How will eCLoud be run

24. Business Model: How it will be paid for

25. Other stakeholders: What might non project
members want from eCloud ?

26. Establishing the rules for how other
organisations can join once the project
finishes

27. How do we
link eCloud
and LoCloud ?

28. Different projects but using same technical
infrastructure

29. LoCloud Tools and services (MINT, microservices
etc) could be deployed in Europeana Cloud

30. eCloud can provide long-term post-project
structure to maintain the data and services

31. Cloud Coordination Group is working on these
issues

32. Project Details
Start Date – February 2013
End Date – January 2016
Total Project Cost – 4.75m Euros
EU Funding Contributing 3.8m Euros (80%)
Matched Funding 950k (20k)
co-funded by the
CIP-ICT Policy Support Programme
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
CIP-ICT-PSP-2012-6 - Project number 325091
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33. Who are the partners?
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Europeana
Polish Digital Libraries
Federation
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European
Library
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35. 7 Work Packages
WP1 - Assessing Researcher Needs in the Cloud and Ensuring Community Engagement,
Agiatis Benardou (Digital Curation Unit, Athens)
WP2 - Developing the Infrastructure for Europeana Cloud, Pavel Kats
(Europeana Foundation, The Hague)
WP3 - Exploiting Europeana Cloud with services and tools for researchers, Erik Duval
(University of Leuven, Belgium)
WP4 - Ingestion of Content and Metadata Development, Marian Lefferts
(Consortium for European Research Libraries, The Hague)
WP5 - Sustaining the Europeana Cloud: Legal, Strategic and Economic Issues Julia Fallon
(Europeana Foundation, The Hague)
WP6 - Dissemination and Networking, Martin Moyle (University College London)
WP7 - Project Management, Mary Rowlatt (MDR Partners, UK)
Project Coordination, Alastair Dunning (The European Library, The Hague)

36. 35 Partners
1 Stitching Foundation (Europeana Foundation), Netherlands
2 Ariadne Foundation, Belgium
3 Athena Research and Innovation Centre, Greece
4 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library), Germany
5 Central and East European Online Library (CEOOL), Germany
6 Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL), United Kingdom
7 Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (National Research Council), Italy
8 Debreceni Egyetem (University of Debrecen), Hungary
9 Fundación Dialnet (Dialnet Foundation), Spain
10 Hrvatska Akademija Znanosti I Umjetnosti (Croatian Academy for
Science and Arts), Croatia

37. 35 Partners
11 Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Nationalbibliotek Og Kobenhavns
Universitetsbibliotek, (Royal Library and National Library of Copenhagen
University), Denmark
12 Stichting Nederland Kennisland (Kennisland), Netherlands
13 Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen, KNAW (Royal Dutch
Academy for Science), Netherlands
14 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven), Belgium
15 Stichting LIBER (LIBER Foundation), Netherlands
16 Cinecitta' Luce Spa , Italy
17 MDR Partners, United Kingdom
18 Kansallisarkisto (Finnish National Archives), Finland
19 Llyfrgellgenedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales), United Kingdom
20 Narodni Technicka Knihovna (National Technical Library), Czech Republic

38. 35 Partners
21 Stichting OAPEN (OAPEN Foundation), Netherlands
22 Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland (OKF-DE), Germany
23 The Open University, United Kingdom
24 Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Pan (Institute of Bioorganic
Chemistry), Poland
25 Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
26 Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Brabant Universiteit Van Tilburg
(Tilburg University), Netherlands
27 University College London United Kingdom
28 The University Of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
29 Goeteborgs Universitet (Gothenburg University), Sweden
30 Universite Libre De Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels), Belgium

39. 35 Partners
31 Universitaet Bielefeld (University of Bielefeld), Germany
32 University Of Patras, Greece
33 Stichting Vu-Vumc (Free University of Amsterdam), Netherlands
Unfunded Partners:
34 University of Sibiu, Romania
35 DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities)

40. http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-cloud
#cloud_EU / @europeana_cloud
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