Europeana Cloud: The Project and the Challenges of Assessing Researchers'

Needs in the Cloud and Ensuring Community Engagement

Alastair Dunning (The European Library) & Agiatis Benardou (Digital Curation Unit, ATHENA R.C.)

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

Project DetailsStart Date – February 2013

End Date – January 2016Total 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_pspCIP-ICT-PSP-2012-6 - Project number 325091

the author is solely responsible for it and that it does not represent the opinion of the Community and that the Community is not responsible for any use that might be made of information contained therein

7 Work PackagesWP1 - 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)

35 Partners1 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

35 Partners11 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

35 Partners21 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

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)

Europeana

AggregatorAggregator

Current situation for metadata aggregation

Europeana

The relationship is not reciprocal, it is costly and unsustainable

AggregatorAggregator

Europeana

The European Library

Polish Digital Library

Europeana Cloud project tries to rethink this situation

Polish Digital Libraries Federation

Europeana

The European LibraryPolish Digital Libraries Federation

Cost reduction?

Sub-aggregations

for members ?Ease of sharing?

Shared storage?

Enriched data

potential?

Who are the partners?

Europeana

The European Library

20 content providers

3 aggregators

12 strategic /

technical partnersPolish Digital Libraries Federation

What will they be doing?

Define the principles

of engagement

Ingest metadata (2.4 M

items) and content (5 M

items)

Build a technical infrastructure

Investigating possible efficiencies

Establishing Long

term consensus

Design a legal

framework

Europeana

The European Library

Polish Digital Libraries Federation

But that is not all!

We will also investigate how we can build end-user services on top of this infrastructure

Researchers

In particular for researchers in humanities and social sciences

Content & Data

In scope for the project (Europeana Research):

Europeana Research

Platform

Content & Data

Tools “Portal”

“Annotation”“API”

“SPARQL”

Services

To allow others to build apps and services on

GLAM

Creative industries

Imagined Case Studies – what could a cloud infrastructure do

Storage and Back-up:

Different nodes within the cloud would act as back up for each member. If your node was unavailable there would always be another copy available else where

Imagined Case Studies – what could a cloud infrastructure do

Format Shifting:

All (or some) content in the cloud in a particular format could be migrated to a new standard

Imagined Case Studies – what could a cloud infrastructure do

Access Interfaces (I):

Developers or publishers could work with specific themes of content (e.g. WW2, history of science, fashion) related to all members’ content in the cloud

Imagined Case Studies – what could a cloud infrastructure do

Access Interfaces (II)

Content not yet in public domain could be made available to restricted communities – depends on authentication system adopted.

Imagined Case Studies – what could a cloud infrastructure do

Tools and Services:

Related content from different members could be made available for transcription, annotation, visualisation

WP 1 Objectives

To identify and define the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities that will be supported via the Europeana Cloud To identify and define the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities that will be supported via the Europeana Cloud

To develop an effective research content strategy for Europeana, based on an evidence-based account of usefulness of Europeana and The European Library resources for research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

To develop an effective research content strategy for Europeana, based on an evidence-based account of usefulness of Europeana and The European Library resources for research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

To improve the understanding of digital tools, research processes and content used in the Humanities and Social Sciences, thus informing the development of tools and aggregation of content in the Europeana Cloud

To improve the understanding of digital tools, research processes and content used in the Humanities and Social Sciences, thus informing the development of tools and aggregation of content in the Europeana Cloud

To actively engage the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities in establishing user requirements for the development of Europeana Cloud To actively engage the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities in establishing user requirements for the development of Europeana Cloud

WP1: Tasks Overview

Task Objective

1.1 Humanities and Social Sciences Research Communities Advisory Board

1.2 Developing a Content Strategy for Europeana Research

1.3 Research user requirements for Europeana: digital research practices, tools and content

1.4 Research Community Engagement: Expert Forums

1.5 Research Community User Evaluation

The Research Communities Advisory Board (RCAB)

Prof. Rob Kitchin [Director, National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis]

Prof Karina Van Dalen-Oskam [The Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands]

Dr. Leif Isaksen [Lecturer in Digital Humanities, University of Southampton]

Developing a Content Strategy for Europeana Research - Aims

1. Matching of the existing content in Europeana and The European Library to the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities

2. Informing the ingestion of content fromexisting providers into Europeana during the course of the project

3. Development of a content strategy

Research user requirements for Europeana: digital research practices, tools and content

Desk research: digital research practices and digital tools state of the art

Research Communities web survey

Identification and creation of Humanities and Social Sciences case studies

User requirements analysis

Research Communities web survey[June – September 2013]

http://surveys.dcu.gr/index.php/survey/index/sid/423471/newte

st/Y/lang/en

Research Community Engagement: Expert Forums

Case Studies Expert Forum

Tools and Content for Humanities and Social Sciences Research Expert Forums

Future Recommendation Workshop

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