europeana cloud - essential facts (low resolution version)
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A template Powerpoint presentation, containing all the Essential Facts you need to know about the Europeana Cloud project. Our project website is http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-cloudTRANSCRIPT
Essential FactsName, title
Date
3-year project…………………………………………………….............
Coordinated by The European Library and running until January 2016.
Funded by the EU………………………………………………………..….............
Total project cost of 4.75 million euros (80% from the EU under the ICT-PSP programme).
The Netherlands: Europeana, The European Library, CERL, LIBER, OAPEN, KNAW, Kennisland, Free University of Amsterdam, Tilburg University
Belgium: Ariadne Foundation, Catholic University of Leuven, Free University of Brussels
Sweden: Gothenburg University
Poland: Polish Digital Libraries Foundation
Germany: Bavarian State Library, Central and East European Online Library, Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland, University of Bielefeld, DARIAH
Italy: National Research Council, Cinecitta’ Luce Spa
Greece: University of Patras, Athena Research and Innovation Centre
Spain: Dialnet Foundation
United Kingdom: MDR Partners, National Library of Wales, The Open University, University College London, University of Edinburgh
Ireland: Trinity College Dublin
Czech Republic: National Technical Library
Finland: Finnish National Archives
Denmark: Royal Library and National Library of Copenhagen University
Croatia: Croatian Academy for Science & Arts
Hungary: University of Debrecen
Romania: University of Sibiu
35 Partners
Together, we’re on a mission.
We want to help the Europeana ecosystem by:
Making the metadata richer
Getting more people to use that metadata and the related content
Giving aggregators and data providers a cheaper, more sustainable infrastructure for storing metadata and content
National Library of France, Public Domain
Helping aggregators and data providers.
We aim to create:
Flexible and scalable data processing facilities
More transparent monitoring and costing
Ability for third parties to enrich your metadata (eg. find place names, convert formats)
Change tracking, versioning support and globally unique identifiers
A workspace for aggregation partners National Library of Wales, CC BY-NC-SA
We have 3 main tasks
Wellcome Library, CC BY-NC
1. Building a new aggregation system.Metadata currently travels in one direction, towards Europeana.
Audiovisual collections
National Aggregators
Regional Aggregators
Archives
Thematic collections
Libraries
e.g. Musées Lausannois
e.g. Culture Grid,
Culture.fr
e.g. The European Library
e.g. APEX
e.g. EUScreen, European Film Gateway
e.g. Judaica Europeana, Europeana Fashion
Our alternative is a shared, cloud-based infrastructure.
This would allow members of Europeana Cloud to:
1.Upload metadata
2.Define who can use that metadata and in what ways (download, annotate, delete)
3.Give third parties access via APIs
It will include version control…
All versions have their own unique IDs
Provider Local IDs and Europeana Cloud IDs are mapped to each other
You keep full control of your version in Europeana Cloud
…and will be built on a Hybrid-cloud structure.
We will develop tools to manage
resource reallocation and data transfers
between the two cloud types.
We will be able to access public-cloud services on demand.
This will allow us to quickly adapt to changes in workload.
We can also shift resources to the public if this would save us money.
The non-public part of our cloud will be Community based.
Users will access it via an API from systems installed in their data centres.
Advantages: technically robust, potential for high efficiency gains and savings
The European Library
Initially, three aggregators will test this new infrastructure.
……………………………………………………………….............................Contributing 120m bibliographic records and 20m metadata items. www.theeuropeanlibrary.org
Polish Digital Libraries Federation…………………………………………………………….............
........Contributing 1.5m metadata items.
www.fbc.pionier.net.pl
Europeana
……………………………………………………………….....................................Contributing 30m metadata items. www.europeana.eu
2. Defining the principles of engagement.
We’re working on a number of structural and legal issues. For example:
1. A business model to ensure economic viability.
2. A revised legal framework.
3. Working out the rules for membership of eCloud
4. A roadmap (integrated with Europeana’s strategic plan) that outlines how to attract partners
National Library of France, Public Domain
3. Developing Europeana Research
APIs will allow third parties to build on top of data in eCloud
1. Europeana Research - set of third-party tools exploiting data in eCloud
2. Focus on research communities in arts, humanities and social sciences
3. Partners in- and outside the project will contribute metadata (and content as well) to be part of eCloud and the tools
National Library of France, Public Domain
Timeline
20132013 20142014 20152015
Operating Principles determined (M18).
Prototype of metadata cloud created (M12).
Prototype of content cloud created (M18).
Governance structure
complete (M28).
Technical Infrastructure
Complete (M30).Europeana Researchunveiled (M36).
20162016
Minimum requirements
outlined (M10).eCloud
deployed as sustainable
service (M36).
Thanks for listening!
Learn more about our project:
@europeana_cloud #cloud_EU
www.pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana.cloud
Digitalt Museum, CC BY-NC-ND