locloud: local content in a europeana cloud
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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.TRANSCRIPT
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
• 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
• 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
- 32 partners from 28 different countries
European Union Member States represented (excluding
Finland, Luxembourg and Malta) plus Iceland, Norway, Serbia and Turkey.
Consortium etc
• 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
• Agility
• API
• Reduced cost
• Device and location independence
• Virtualisation
• Reliability
• Scalability and elasticity
• Performance
• Security
• Maintenance
Benefits claimed for cloud computing
• 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
• Metadata editing (possibly collection-wide)
• Preservation services
• Rights management
• Enrichment services
• Spatial
• Thematic
• …
• Digital resources management (creation, cataloguing, etc.)
Enhanced aggregator services
• 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
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
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
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
• 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
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
• 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
• 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
• 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
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