Europeana Business Planning – Facilitate

Alastair Dunning, Europeana Cloud, Project Co-ordinator

27th September 2012, Den Haag

Key Aims of Europeana Cloud

A. To provide access, at Europeana, to 2.4m new metadata records and 5m research–focused digital items from across European universities, libraries, data centres and publishers.

B. To create a cloud-based infrastructure capable of delivering cost-efficient content and metadata storage for stakeholders across Europe

C. To develop a digital platform, named Europeana Research, to discover and use European research content. And build services on top of this

Current Europeana Approach to Aggregation

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Aim of the Project:

Europeana Cloud will be a shared system for sharing metadata and content between Europeana and its aggregators. Content providers are also stakeholders

The project confronts challenges for content providers, aggregators, Europeana

TechnicalHow is Europeana Cloud built ?

LegalHow can it respect national legal and licensing

frameworksFinancial

How can it be sustainedStrategic

How will the Europeana Cloud benefit those who provide content to Europeana

Requires consensus to work properly

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