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local content in a Europeana cloud B. Yılmaz, Ö. Külcü, Y. Ünal & T. Çakmak Department of Information Management Hacettepe University {byilmaz, kulcu, yurdagul, tcakmak}@hacettepe.edu.tr

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IMCW 2013 Conference Presentation on LoCloud by B. Yılmaz, Ö. Külcü, Y. Ünal & T. Çakmak, Hacettepe University, Turkey 4-6 September 2013 Limerick, Ireland.

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local content in a Europeana cloud

B. Yılmaz, Ö. Külcü, Y. Ünal & T. Çakmak Department of Information Management

Hacettepe University {byilmaz, kulcu, yurdagul, tcakmak}@hacettepe.edu.tr

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• LoCloud Project aims:

• to enhance the Europeana content base by aggregating cultural heritage content,

• complementing collections already accessible through Europeana,

• representing the diversity and richness of Europe's cultural heritage.

Aims

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• Build on success of Europeana Local and CARARE Best Practice Networks (30% of content in Europeana). – 4 million + new items.

• Make it easier for small/medium institutions to make good quality metadata and content available to Europeana

• Bring together local history and heritage resources which are currently unevenly represented in the Europeana ‘ecosystem’

• More coherent views of content relating to a given locality

Main goals

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- 32 partners from 28 different countries

European Union Member States represented (excluding

Finland, Luxembourg and Malta) plus Iceland, Norway, Serbia and Turkey.

Consortium etc

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• Scientific coordinator (National Archive, Norway) and a project manager (MDR, United Kingdom)

• Strong group of technical partners, already important contributors to development of Europeana, including AIT, Athena RC, AVINET, IPCHS, NTUA and PSNC.

• National and regional aggregation services or content providers who will act as pilot implementers of the cloud services; coordinate and disseminate at national level.

• Partners with specific expertise in key aspects such as vocabularies.

Consortium etc

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• Agility

• API

• Reduced cost

• Device and location independence

• Virtualisation

• Reliability

• Scalability and elasticity

• Performance

• Security

• Maintenance

Benefits claimed for cloud computing

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• 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.

LoCloud: IaaS

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• Metadata editing (possibly collection-wide)

• Preservation services

• Rights management

• Enrichment services

• Spatial

• Thematic

• …

• Digital resources management (creation, cataloguing, etc.)

Enhanced aggregator services

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• Provide cloud-based software services to enable more discoverable and interoperable content;

– geolocation enrichment tools

– metadata enrichment (NLP – English + Spanish)

– multilingual vocabularies for local history

– historic place-names ‘gazetteer’

– Wikimedia and crowdsourcing

• Cloud-based testlab: content provider involvement

LoCloud: SaaS

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Workpackage structure

Briefing, action planning in each country; state of the art in relevant cloud infrastructures; content and metadata analysis; requirements analysis

WP 1

Planning, preparation and requirements

Specify, modify, test, implement core infrastructure components: MINT, MoRe, Lightweight digital library – all build on existing work

WP 2

Design and implementation of aggregation infrastructure

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Workpackages

Collaborative cloud-based testlab, involving partners and users; develop and implement a suite of SaaS: geolocation enrichment; metadata enrichment; multilingual vocabularies; historic place-names; Wikimedia and crowdsourcing

WP 3

Micro services for small and medium institutions

Regional training workshops, video, online course; documentation and help desk; support portal – centre of expertise; service sustainability planning with Europeana

WP 4

Enabling and supporting small and medium institutions

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Workpackages

Group of inter-related evaluation activities: infrastructure, metadata and content; impact on institutions and end users; Recommendations

WP 5

Evaluation and impact assessment

Website and social media; national and international conferences and events; competition among Europe’s regions; sustainability planning; work with aggregators

WP 6

Dissemination and exploitation

Coordination with Europeana Cloud developments

WP 7

Management and coordination

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• Move to cloud based architecture

• Scalability, high availability etc

• API through which to access the underlying metadata & data

• Build services

• Allow content providers to create and catalogue their digital resources on the aggregator

• A step toward distributed digital curation?

Future directions

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As the partner of the LoCloud Project, Team Turkey are participating all 7 workpackages actively.

• Planning, preparation and requirements

• Design and implementation of aggregation infrastructure

• Micro services for small and medium institutions

• Enabling and supporting small and medium institutions

• Evaluation and impact assessment

• Dissemination and exploitation

• Management and coordination

Turkey

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• Coordination of content provision, dissemination from Turkey and engagement of small and medium-sized institution are among the main tasks of Team Turkey.

• Team Turkey will use previous experiences as content provision to the Europeana and aggregator of Turkey in AccessIT Project

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• At the end of the Project, Team Turkey will be complete the metadata mapping and content sharing processes of the 820 postcards/photos and 120 maps and plans from VEKAM (Vehbi Koç Ankara Research Center) Archive

Turkey

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• Hacettepe University is the owner of the activities of Team Turkey in LoCloud Project. As the personal profile, Prof. Dr. Bülent Yılmaz is the coordinator of Team Turkey; Assoc.Prof. Özgür Külcü, Asst Prof. Yurdagül Ünal, Res. Asst. Tolga Çakmak attained as the researchers in the Project.

Turkey

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local content in a Europeana cloud

B. Yılmaz, Ö. Külcü, Y. Ünal & T. Çakmak Department of Information Management

Hacettepe University {byilmaz, kulcu, yurdagul, tcakmak}@hacettepe.edu.tr