Short Presentation on Europeana Cloud at Europeana AGM 2013

Europeana CloudAlastair Dunning, The European Library

Europeana AGM, Dec 2013http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-cloud

#cloud_EU / @europeana_cloud

Two challenges for the Europeana

ecosystem

1) Making metadata richer 2) Getting more users of that

metadata (and the related content)

Europeana Cloud aims to address these challenges

Europeana

AggregatorAggregator

Current situation for

metadata aggregation

<---- Data Providers--->

Europeana

AggregatorAggregator

The situation does not fully

exploit the value of the Europeana network and its metadata and

content

<---- Data Providers--->

Europeana

The European LibraryPolish Digital Libraries Federation

Europeana Cloud project

tries to rethink this situation

Testing and building a shared infrastructure -

Europeana Cloud

These three aggregators are piloting the Europeana Cloud system

The European Library – 120m items of bibliographic records, 20m metadata items *

Polish Digital Library Federation – 1.5m metadata items

Europeana – 30m metadata items

* - metadata items refer to metadata records that points to a digitised object

Europeana

The European LibraryPolish Digital Libraries Federation

Europeana Cloud allows members to

Upload metadata to a shared systemDefine who can use that metadata and in what ways

(download, edit, delete, annotate)

Europeana

The European LibraryPolish Digital Libraries Federation

Europeana Cloud allows third parties to

Access that metadata, via APIs, according to conditions of owner(download, edit, delete, annotate)

Europeana

The European Library

Lowering cost?

Sub-aggregations

for members ?Ease of sharing?

Enriched data

potential?

Polish Digital Libraries Federation

Questions to be asked: Does eCloud make it easier to

share data, especially with Europeana?

Europeana

The European Library

Lowering cost?

Sub-aggregations

for members ?Ease of sharing?

Enriched data

potential?

Polish Digital Libraries Federation

Questions to be asked: Can members create sub-aggregations tailored for specific use ? (e.g. all metadata on

archaeology)

Europeana

The European Library

Lowering cost?

Sub-aggregations

for members ?Ease of sharing?

Enriched data

potential?

Polish Digital Libraries Federation

Questions to be asked: Can third parties enrich metadata in eCloud? (e.g find place names,

make links, convert formats)

Europeana

The European Library

Lowering cost?

Sub-aggregations

for members ?Ease of sharing?

Enriched data

potential?

Polish Digital Libraries Federation

Questions to be asked: Will eCloud make aggregation

cheaper? And for who?

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 & Metadata

In scope for the project (Europeana Research):

The project will experiment with the

ingestion of content for use in research

Europeana Research Platform

Content & metadata

Tools and

interfaces for

researchers

APIs for third

parties

In scope for the project (Europeana Research):

Developers will work with APIs give access to the data in eCloud

Content & metadata

Tools and

interfaces for

researchers

APIs for third

partiesEuropeana Research Platform

In scope for the project (Europeana Research):

From this third-party development work, tools for specific research communities will be available

Content & metadata

Tools and

interfaces for

researchers

APIs for third

partiesEuropeana Research Platform

In scope for the project (Europeana Research):

Together, these APIs and tools will form Europeana Research platform

Content & metadata

Tools and

interfaces for

researchers

APIs for third

partiesEuropeana Research Platform

In long term, eCloud will allow others to build tools on the data it holds

GLAM

Creative industries

Europeana Cloud project also addresses

Governance: How will eCLoud be run

Business Model: How it will be paid for

Other stakeholders: What might non project members want from eCloud ?

Establishing the rules for how other organisations can join once the project

finishes

Breakout groups for AGM

You are considering sharing your metadata and content via 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

Who are the partners?

Europeana

The European Library

20 metadata 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

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)

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Image Credit: De molen bij Wijk bij Duurstede, Jacob Van Ruisdael, Rijksmuseum, c.1669 http://europeana.eu/portal/record/90402/79D60E4547FFE444D9AA17666E07955F7EBC0771.html

Credits:

Opening Image Credit: De molen bij Wijk bij Duurstede, Jacob Van Ruisdael, Rijksmuseum, c.1669

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