2nd LoCloud CY Awareness Event at the Ministry of Education and Culture. Presentation delivered by Marinos Ioannides, Cyprus University of Technology Cyprus 5 March 2014

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local content in a Europeana cloud
COMPETITIVENESS AND INNOVATION FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
POLICY SUPPORT PROGRAMME (CIP ICT‐PSP )
5th of March 2014
Ministry of Education and Culture
Marinos Ioannides

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Cyprus University of Technology
Newly established Technical University on the Island
(2004 – 2007 – www.cut.ac.cy )
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Department of
Electrical, Computer Engineering and Informatics
A budget of 1.2 M Euro within the last Year from European Funds
Digital Heritage Lab (CUT-DHL)
The scientific themes on DHL research agenda relate to the
basic mission of the lab, which currently are:
– Heritage Documentation and Semantics
• Archaeological records
• Data acquisition (2D‐3D) and management
• GIS and remote sensing
• Standards and digital libraries
– Visualization and Heritage Communication
• Multimedia

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Darius Victory - 500BC
(Prof. Zolfaghari, Iran)
The Documentation of the Past
Long Term of Data Validation
What does this means for the future?
No WW standards for the digitalization, modeling,
archiving, harvesting and re‐use of CH content!
One of the largest investments in the world:
Cultural Heritage
According to FBI / Interpol:
A total reward of 420 M Euro is still being offered for
information leading to the return of CH items

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Why do we care about the Cultural Heritage?
• The Treaty on the functioning of the
European Union (the so called Lisbon Treaty ‐
2010/C 83/01) on article 3 and article 167 (28
countries)
• Council of Europe in Strasbourg (43 countries)
• UNESCOs conventions (193 countries)
Why do we care?
…or we don’t care?..

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What does this means at the
present?
Looting and theft of cultural property is the 3rd
worldwide criminal industry often associated with money
laundering and terrorist activities!
http://www.fbi.gov/ 2013
“War is good for us. We buy antiquities
cheap, and then sell weapons expensively.”
Abu Khalid, smuggler
http://world.time.com/2012/09/12/syrias-looted-past-how-ancient-
artifacts-are-being-traded-for-guns/#
ixzz26HxWHV1T
The reconstruction of the
Cathedral of Dresdner 1992‐4

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The Risks
Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar, Germany
UNESCO WHL Library – Partially destroyed in 2004
The Risks
After the Earthquake in 2003
(6.6 Richter scale)
A Day before…
Bam in IRAN

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Why do we need the e‐Documentation?
Thanks to the Bildportal der Kunstmuseen, Berlin (bpk-images.de)
Why do we need the e‐Documentation?

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The Risks
National Museum of IRAQ in 2003
Deputy curator Mohsen Hassan
…The National Museum of Iraq has
been almost completely pillaged.
Over 170,000 artifacts have been
stolen or destroyed from the
museum, which once boasted an
irreplaceable collection of artifacts
from Mesopotamia dating back as
far as 7,000 years…
(New York Times 13th of April 2003)
Mali ‐Timbuktu

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The Challenges
“People the world over are creating memories in forms
that are less and less permanent ‐ be it sound recordings,
books, drawings, films, videotape, newsprint, magazines,
photographs, monuments, 3D or computer‐based
documents. It must be said that the output of the present
century alone is probably greater than the total output of
all previous centuries put together; and ironically and
tragically, it is being lost faster than ever before. It is a
tragedy indeed, for what is at stake is the recorded
memory of mankind !”
Dato’ Habibah Zon, Director‐General of the National Archives
of Malaysia
What we are doing?
We are trying to document it (a digital set)
We are trying to archive it Digital
We are trying to preserve the data set
Horizon
2020
Libraries
WHAT ?
WHERE ?
HOW ?
Metadata
Any interpretation? Semantic cap

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Documentation of Monuments
WHAT ?
WHERE ?
Documenting the Interior
Photogrammetric
measurements

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Europeana
The EU Digital
Library
It is the common access point to the different kind of
collections of European libraries, archives and museums
from all around Europe. The Library has to provide
direct online access in a Multilingual and Multimedia
Form.
(The Archive of all the EU Digital Libraries/Archives…)
An open access European digital library for all
researchers, professionals, students and the
public…
Since 2012 Europeana is harvesting the first 3D objects
Digital Libraries
• EU Digital Library ‐ Europeana (EU)
• World Digital Library (USA)
• Memory of the World (UNESCO)

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Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a
compendium holding information from either all
branches of knowledge or a particular branch of
knowledge.
"ἐγκυκλοπαιδεία„ == well rounded education" or
"general knowledge".
Digital Encyclopedias==„Multimedia Presentations“
Encyclopedia
„Indeed, the purpose of an encyclopedia is to collect knowledge
disseminated around the globe; to set forth its general system
to the men with whom we live, and transmit it to those who
will come after us, so that the work of previous centuries will
not become useless to the centuries to come; and so that our
offspring, becoming better instructed, will at the same time
become more happy, and that we should not die without
having rendered a service to the human race in the future
years to come.“
Denis Diderot (1713 – 1784) French philosopher,
Chief editor of and contributor to the creation of the Encyclopédie.

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Museum Artifacts
Why do we need the e‐Documentation?

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Efficient Data Acquisition
FP7 PEOPLE IAPP 4D‐CH‐WORLD
Data Presentation

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Intangible Cultural Heritage
• What is it?
• Who set the definition?
• Whom ever it affects?
• Why to document it digitally?
• Why to preserve it?
• How to re‐use the content? and
• Who are the end users?
What is it?
Who set the definition?
• According to UNESCO:
ICH are oral traditions, performing arts, social practices,
rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices
concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge
and skills to produce traditional crafts.
ICH is:
• Traditional, contemporary and living at the same time
• Inclusive
• Representative
• Community‐based

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A Library…and the Challenge
In ancient times, the library of Alexandria
was said to contain up to 70% of all
human knowledge. The challenge for the
digital age is to do even better than that –
and make the data/results last longer…
Advantages
• No physical boundary.
• Round the clock availability
• Multiple access.
• Information retrieval. The user is able to use any
search term (word, phrase, title, name, subject) to
search the entire collection(s).
• Preservation of Data.
• Storage Space.
• Added value (Resolution, Improvement of quality,
etc)

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Long‐Term Validation of the Data
…The challenge for the digital age is to do
even better than that – and make the
data/results last longer.
Preservation of Data  e‐Preservation
Problems of the Search‐Engines
Can we receive data about a specific topic
in the form of an Encyclopedia?...
The dimension of the problem…and the
Challenges!

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Project Partners
FP7‐PEOPLE 2013 ITN‐DCH
(Academia, Industry, Research) = Triangle of knowledge
• 23 Partners (Academia, Industry, Research and CH
Institutions)
• 4 Years Project with 3.72 M Euro budget
• To train 20 high caliber PhD‐Fellows in the area of Digital
Heritage
• Research Training on Tangible and Intangible CH
• The calls for the positions are available: www.itn‐dch.eu
Mission of ITN‐DCH
This worldwide unique project aims for the first time to analyse,
design, research, develop and validate an innovative framework,
integrating the latest advances in different scientific disciplines that
cover the whole lifecycle (chain) of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH)
research (such as data acquisition/ capturing, data pre (post)‐
processing, modelling, semantics and symbolic representation,
metadata description (including material and
composition/construction documentation), repository and
archiving, visualization and media production through
mixed/augmented enabled technologies, personalized and
interactive multimedia interfaces) for a cost–effective preservation,
documentation, protection and presentation of cultural heritage.

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Main goals of LoCloud
Historical perspective
• Build on success of Europeana Local and CARARE
Best Practice Networks (30% of content in
Europeana).
– 4 million resources + new items.
• Support small & medium institutions to make
metadata and content available to Europeana;
• Bring together local history and heritage resources
which are currently unevenly represented in
Europeana
• More coherent views of content relating to a given
locality;
1. Co‐funded under the CIP ICT‐PSP programme of the European
Commission
2. Scientific coordinator: National Archives, Norway; project
management: MDR Partners, UK
3. Strong group of technical partners, already contributors to
development of Europeana.
4. National and regional aggregation services or content providers
acting as pilot implementers of the cloud services; coordinate and
disseminate at national level.
5. Partners with specific expertise in key aspects such as
vocabularies.
• 32 institutions from 26 countries.
• Start date: 1 March 2013
• Duration: 30 months.
LoCloud key data

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Cloud computing: benefits
• Agility, Redundancy
• Reduced maintenance costs
• Device and location independence
• Virtualisation
• Reliability
• Scalability and elasticity
• Performance
• Security
• Maintenance
LoCloud: IaaS
• Explore and test the potential of cloud computing for
aggregation, enrichment and re‐use, with a special focus on
geographic location.
• ‘Default’ aggregation infrastructure in the cloud for smaller
content holders
• Build on MINT‐MORE combination used in CARARE (EDM)
• Lightweight digital library
• Experiment with alternative ingestion methods
• Hospitable to new content providers
• House museums, ‘private content holders’
• Establish guidance, training and support facilities, built
around the LoCloud aggregation service.

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LoCloud: SaaS
• Provide cloud‐based software services to enable more
discoverable and interoperable content;
– Geo‐location enrichment tools
– metadata enrichment
– multilingual vocabularies for local history
– historic place‐names ‘gazetteer’
– Wikimedia and crowdsourcing.
Workpackages
WP 1
Planning, preparation and requirements
Briefing, action planning in each country; state
of the art in relevant cloud infrastructures;
content and metadata analysis; requirements
analysis
WP 2
Design and implementation of aggregation infrastructure
Specify, modify, test, implement core infrastructure components:
MINT, MoRe, Lightweight digital library – all build on existing work

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Workpackages
WP 3
Micro services for small and medium institutions
Collaborative cloud‐based testlab, involving partners and
users; develop and implement a geolocation enrichment;
metadata enrichment; multilingual vocabularies; historic
place‐names; Wikimedia and crowdsourcing
WP 4
Enabling and supporting small and medium institutions
Regional training workshops, video, online course;
documentation and help desk; support portal – centre
of expertise; service sustainability planning with Europeana
Workpackages
WP 5
Evaluation and impact assessment
Group of inter‐related evaluation
activities: infrastructure, metadata and
content; impact on institutions and end
users; Recommendations
WP 6
Dissemination and exploitation
Website and social media; national
and international conferences and
events; competition among Europe’s
regions; sustainability planning; work
with aggregators
WP 7
Management and coordination
Coordination with Europeana Cloud
developments

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Work progress
• Review of the state‐of‐the‐art in cloud‐based content
management and aggregation services relevant to
LoCloud’s needs and to small and medium sized
institutions (SMS) (D1.1 Report on the state‐of‐the art
monitoring and situational analysis)
• Survey to evaluate content and metadata to be made
available by each content provider partner (D1.3 Content
and metadata analysis)
• Defined metadata schemas to be used in LoCloud as
intermediaries to EDM (D1.2 Definition of metadata
schemas)
EuroMed2014 and Work to be done
www.euromed2014.eu

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The Multiannual Financial Framework 2014‐2020:
European Council conclusions, 8 February 2013
H2020
Education, Youth, Sport
Connecting Europe Facility
Key challenge: stabilise the financial and economic system while taking measures to
create economic opportunities
1. Smart & inclusive growth (€451 billion)
Education,
Youth, Sport
Connecting
Europe Cohesion
2. Sustainable growth, natural resources (€373 billion)
3. Security and citizenship (€16 billion)
4. Global Europe (€58 billion)
5. Administration (€61.6 billion)
(figures are given in constant prices)
Competitive
Business
SMEs
HORIZON 2020
TOTAL
€960 billion

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 The new European Union programme for research
and innovation for 2014‐2020
 An integrated programme coupling research to
innovation
 Challenge based
 Strong focus on SMEs
 Major simplification
What is Horizon 2020?
€ 79 billion from 2014 to 2020

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New approach to work programmes
• More strategic
• Two year work programmes
(2014‐2015: > € 15 billion)
• Less prescriptive calls (64 calls in 2014)
Broader and fewer topics
First call deadlines as from March 2014
and calls
Horizon 2020: Three major priorities
Societal Challenges (29.7 billions)
Excellent Science (24,4 billions)
Industrial Leadership (17 billions)

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Work Programme 2014 – Funding for calls
Societal Challenges Pillar:~ € 2.8 billion
Health, demographic change and wellbeing 2 calls € 600 million
Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine and
Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy 3 calls € 300 million
Secure, clean and efficient energy 4 calls € 600 million
Smart, green and integrated transport 3 calls € 540 million
Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw
materials 3 calls € 300 million
Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective
societies 5 calls € 112 million
Secure Societies 4 calls € 200 million
In addition
Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation 3 calls € 50 million
Science with and for Society 4 calls € 45 million

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Work Programme 2014 – Funding for calls
Excellent Science Pillar:~ € 3 billion
European Research Council 4 calls € 1 662 million
Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions 6 calls € 800 million
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) 4 calls € 200 million
European Research Infrastructures
(including e-Infrastructures) 4 calls € 277 million
Work Programme 2014 – Funding for calls
Industrial Leadership Pillar:~ € 1.4 billion
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) 2 calls € 700 million
Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and
Production 5 calls € 500 million
Space 5 calls € 128 million
Access to Risk Finance 2 calls € 5 million
Innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises
(Does not include €3 billion for SME instrument or Eurostars) 1 call € 10 million
In addition € 300 million for Financial Instruments (not through calls)

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Some examples:
 Personalising health and care (€ 549 million)
 Blue growth: unlocking the potential of seas and oceans
(€ 100 million)
 Overcoming the crisis: new ideas and strategies to overcome the
crisis in Europe (€ 35 million)
First Horizon 2020 calls:
12 focus areas
Strong focus on SMEs
• 20% of budget from societal challenges and LEITs
• New SME instrument: > € 500 million in 2014‐2015
• Support measures under 'Innovation in SMEs'
• Access to risk finance
• Participation with Member States (Public‐Public)
Eurostars joint programme

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Cross‐cutting issues across the Work Programmes
• Social Sciences and Humanities (over € 400 million)
 >200 topics (at least 35% of the total topics in the Work Programme)
 Budget over € 400 million
 Topics ‘flagged’ by the system designed for searching the Work Programme
In addition
 ERC (around 17% of budget for SSH)
 Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Gender
 Explicitly integrated in all the sections of the Work Programme
 Specific call under Science with and for Society (€ 9.5 million)
 Topics are flagged to ease access for applicants
Climate Change
 ~35% of the budget for activities addressing climate change
 Climate topics are of particular importance in some of the focus areas of the Work Programme
International cooperation
 Principle of general openness: the programme will remain the most open funding programme in the
world
 Open to the association of: enlargement countries / EFTA / European Neighbourhood (and others
associated to FP7)
 Targeted actions to be implemented taking a strategic approach to international cooperation
Partnerships with industry and
Member States
• And additional contractual Public‐Private
Partnerships
 In addition
• €22 billion Innovation Investment Package
proposed by Commission (July 2013)
• Joint programmes
(with Member States, under Article 185)
• Joint Technology Initiatives
(with industry under Article 187)

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1. A single set of rules for all funding under Horizon 2020
 Fewer, more flexible, funding instruments
2. Simpler reimbursement: 1 project = 1 funding rate
 100% of the total eligible costs (70% for innovation actions)
 Non‐profit legal entities can also receive 100% in innovation actions
 Single flat rate for indirect costs (25% of eligible costs)
3. Faster time to grant
 Within 8 months of call deadline
Major Simplification for
the benefit of applicants
Major Simplification for
the benefit of applicants
• 4. Fewer, better targeted controls and audits
• 5. Coherent implementation
 Through dedicated agencies
 Single IT system
• 6. Simplification in grant agreements

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Evaluation criteria
STANDARD AWARD CRITERIA
QUALITY &
EFFICIENCY
OF THE ACTION
EXCELLENCE IMPACT
 ERC frontier Research actions only EXCELLENCE
 Innovation actions higher weighting for "IMPACT"
Proposal evaluated by the experts “as it is”
and not as “what could be” = no need for negotiation
Simpler access through the
Participant Portal
• Single entry point ‐ from calls to electronic
submission of proposals
• New tools for smart searches for the benefit
of users, including newcomers to the
programme.

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Country profile - Cyprus
H2020
Societal Challenge 6 and 7
Reflective Societies
Cultural Heritage and European
Identities

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Societal Challenge 6
• The objective is to develop new technologies to
enhance the analysis of cultural resources to
improve our understanding of how European
identity can be traced, constructed or debated
and to use those resources to foster innovation
across sectors.
• Research and Innovation should be driven by
Social Sciences, Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Communities in collaboration with ICT sector.
Innovation ecosystems of digital cultural assets
• CHALLENGE: showcase how digital cultural
resources can promote creativity and generate
innovation in research, lead to richer interpretations
of the past, bring new perspectives to questions of
identity and culture, and generate societal and
economic benefits…
• …through the development of new environments,
applications, tools, and services for digital cultural
resources in scientific collections, archives, museums,
libraries and cultural heritage sites.
(Innovation Action - 70% funding, budget 11 MEUR – 2015 call)

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Societal Challenge 7
Advanced 3D modeling for accessing and understanding
European cultural assets
a. Research on cost‐effective technologies for advanced 3D modelling
and analysis of physical cultural resources and assets (e.g. cultural
heritage sites, monuments, sculptures, archaeological sites)
beyond simple digital reconstruction.
b. Devise standard formats for 3D modeling of Europe's cultural
heritage with a view to improve their archiving, reusability and
sustainability. The proposed formats should enable easy exchange,
publishing and use of 3D models that have been acquired or
generated by a wide range of devices or software.
(Research Action ‐ 100% funding, budget 15 MEUR – 2014 call)
H2020 Leadership in
Enabling and Industrial
Technologies
Content technologies and information
management: ICT for digital content,
cultural and creative industries

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Industrial Leadership (LEIT)
• The successful mastering, integration and deployment of
enabling technologies by European industry is a key
factor in strengthening Europe's productivity and
innovation capacity and ensuring Europe has an
advanced, sustainable and competitive economy, global
leadership in high‐tech application… [H2020 legal base]
• ICT – Challenge 4 "Content technologies and information
management: ICT for digital content, cultural and
creative industries" focuses on "strengthening Europe’s
position as provider of products and services based on
individual and business creativity."
ICT 18 – Support the growth of ICT innovative Creative SMEs
Target: Leveraging emerging ICT technologies for the
development of innovative products, tools, applications and
services in the creative industries with high commercial
potential.
Requirements: Creative industry SMEs driven, Existing market
demand, Cost‐effective, Market‐ready solution, Target
international markets.
(Innovation Action ‐ 70% funding, budget 15 MEUR – 2014 call)

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ICT 19 ‐ Technologies for creative industries, social media
and convergence
• Scope: The focus is on research, development and
exploitation of new emerging technologies (e.g. 3D and
augmented reality technologies) for digital content
creation to support the creative and media industries and
for unlocking and interacting with complex information
and media.
• Focus on research in new technologies and tools to
support creative industries in the creative process from
idea conception to production.
(Research Action ‐ 100% funding, budget 18 MEUR – 2015 call)
European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF)
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
• supporting productive investment and local development
European Social Fund (ESF)
• supporting the employment sector i.e. jobs, and job
opportunities for all EU citizens

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Digitization of Cultural Heritage
to boost innovation
http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/digitisation-heritage
Ευχαριστώ
marinos.ioannides@cut.ac.cy
Tel. 25‐002020