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local content in a Europeana cloud 

5th of March 2014

COMPETITIVENESS AND INNOVATION FRAMEWORK PROGRAMMEPOLICY SUPPORT PROGRAMME  (CIP ICT‐PSP )

Ministry of Education and Culture

Marinos Ioannides

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Cyprus University of Technology

Newly established Technical University on the Island (2004 – 2007 – www.cut.ac.cy )

Faculty of Engineering and Technology 

Department of 

Electrical, Computer Engineering and Informatics

The scientific themes on DHL research agenda relate to the basic mission of the lab, which currently are:

– Heritage Documentation and Semantics• Archaeological records• Data acquisition (2D‐3D) and management• GIS and remote sensing• Standards and digital libraries

– Visualization and Heritage Communication• Multimedia

Digital Heritage Lab (CUT-DHL)

A budget of 1.2 M Euro within the last Year from European Funds

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Darius Victory - 500BC

(Prof. Zolfaghari, Iran)

The Documentation of the Past

Long Term of Data Validation

What does this means for the future?

No WW standards for the digitalization, modeling, archiving, harvesting and re‐use of CH content!

One of the largest investments in the world: 

Cultural Heritage

According to FBI / Interpol: 

A total reward of 420 M Euro is still being offered for information leading to the return of CH items

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Why do we care about the Cultural Heritage? 

• The Treaty on the functioning of the European Union (the so called Lisbon Treaty ‐2010/C 83/01) on article 3 and article 167 (28 countries)

• Council of Europe in Strasbourg (43 countries)

• UNESCOs conventions (193 countries)

Why do we care?

…or we don’t care?..

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What does this means at the present?

Looting and theft of cultural property is the 3rd

worldwide criminal industry often associated with moneylaundering and terrorist activities!

http://www.fbi.gov/ 2013

“War is good for us. We buy antiquitiescheap, and then sell weapons expensively.”

Abu Khalid, smugglerhttp://world.time.com/2012/09/12/syrias-looted-past-how-

ancient-artifacts-are-being-traded-for-guns/#ixzz26HxWHV1T

The reconstruction of the Cathedral of Dresdner 1992‐4

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The Risks

Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar, GermanyUNESCO WHL Library – Partially destroyed in 2004

The Risks

After the Earthquake in 2003 (6.6 Richter scale)

A Day before…

Bam in IRAN

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Thanks to the Bildportal der Kunstmuseen, Berlin (bpk-images.de)

Why do we need the e‐Documentation?

Why do we need the e‐Documentation?

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The RisksThe Risks

National Museum of IRAQ in 2003Deputy curator Mohsen Hassan 

…The National Museum of Iraq hasbeen almost completely pillaged.Over 170,000 artifacts have beenstolen or destroyed from themuseum, which once boasted anirreplaceable collection of artifactsfrom Mesopotamia dating back asfar as 7,000 years…

(New York Times 13th of April 2003)

Mali ‐Timbuktu

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The Challenges

“People the world over are creating memories in forms that are less and less permanent ‐ be it sound recordings, books, drawings, films, videotape, newsprint, magazines, photographs, monuments, 3D or computer‐based documents. It must be said that the output of the present century alone is probably greater than the total output of all previous centuries put together; and ironically and tragically, it is being lost faster than ever before. It is a tragedy indeed, for what is at stake is the recorded memory of mankind !”

Dato’ Habibah Zon, Director‐General of the National Archives of Malaysia

What we are doing?

We are trying to document it (a digital set)

We are trying to preserve the data set

We are trying to archive it Digital Libraries

WHAT ?

WHERE ?

HOW ?

Any interpretation? Semantic cap

Metadata

Horizon2020

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Documentation of Monuments

WHAT ?

WHERE ?

Documenting the Interior

Photogrammetric measurements

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EuropeanaThe EU Digital 

Library

It is the common access point to the different kind ofcollections of European libraries, archives and museumsfrom all around Europe. The Library has to providedirect online access in a Multilingual and MultimediaForm.

(The Archive of all the EU Digital Libraries/Archives…)

An open access European digital library for all researchers, professionals, students and the public…

Since 2012 Europeana is harvesting the first 3D objects

Digital Libraries

• EU Digital Library ‐ Europeana (EU)

• World Digital Library (USA)

• Memory of the World (UNESCO)

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Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.

"ἐγκυκλοπαιδεία„ == well rounded education" or "general knowledge". 

Digital Encyclopedias==„Multimedia Presentations“ 

Encyclopedia

„Indeed, the purpose of an encyclopedia is to collect knowledge disseminated around the globe; to set forth its general system to the men with whom we live, and transmit it to those who will come after us, so that the work of previous centuries will not become useless to the centuries to come; and so that our offspring, becoming better instructed, will at the same time become more happy, and that we should not die without having rendered a service to the human race in the future years to come.“

Denis Diderot (1713 – 1784) French philosopher, Chief editor of and contributor to the creation of the Encyclopédie.

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Museum Artifacts

Why do we need the e‐Documentation?

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Efficient Data AcquisitionFP7 PEOPLE IAPP 4D‐CH‐WORLD

Data Presentation

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Intangible Cultural Heritage

• What is it?

• Who set the definition? 

• Whom ever it affects?

• Why to document it digitally?

• Why to preserve it?

• How to re‐use the content? and

• Who are the end users? 

What is it?Who set the definition? 

• According to UNESCO: 

ICH are oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts.

ICH is:

• Traditional, contemporary and living at the same time

• Inclusive

• Representative

• Community‐based

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In ancient times, the library of Alexandria was said to contain up to 70% of all human knowledge. The challenge for the digital age is to do even better than that –and make the data/results last longer…

A Library…and the Challenge

Advantages

• No physical boundary. • Round the clock availability• Multiple access. • Information retrieval. The user is able to use any search term (word, phrase, title, name, subject) to search the entire collection(s). 

• Preservation of Data. • Storage Space. • Added value (Resolution, Improvement of quality, etc)

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Long‐Term Validation of the Data

…The challenge for the digital age is to do even better than that – and make the data/results last longer.

Preservation of Data  e‐Preservation

Problems of the Search‐Engines

Can we receive data about a specific topic in the form of an Encyclopedia?...

The dimension of the problem…and the Challenges!

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Project Partners (Academia, Industry, Research) = Triangle of knowledge

• 23 Partners (Academia, Industry, Research and CH Institutions)

• 4 Years Project with 3.72 M Euro budget

• To train 20 high caliber PhD‐Fellows in the area of Digital Heritage

• Research Training on Tangible and Intangible CH

• The calls for the positions are available: www.itn‐dch.eu

FP7‐PEOPLE 2013 ITN‐DCH

This worldwide unique project aims for the first time to analyse,design, research, develop and validate an innovative framework,integrating the latest advances in different scientific disciplines thatcover the whole lifecycle (chain) of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH)research (such as data acquisition/ capturing, data pre (post)‐processing, modelling, semantics and symbolic representation,metadata description (including material andcomposition/construction documentation), repository andarchiving, visualization and media production throughmixed/augmented enabled technologies, personalized andinteractive multimedia interfaces) for a cost–effective preservation,documentation, protection and presentation of cultural heritage.

Mission of ITN‐DCH

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

• Support small & medium institutions to make metadata and content available to Europeana;

• Bring together local history and heritage resources which are currently unevenly represented in Europeana

• More coherent views of content relating to a given locality;

Main goals of LoCloud

Historical perspective

1. Co‐funded under the CIP ICT‐PSP programme of the European Commission

2. Scientific coordinator: National Archives, Norway; project management: MDR Partners, UK

3. Strong group of technical partners, already contributors to  development of Europeana.

4. National and regional aggregation services or content providers acting as pilot implementers of the cloud services; coordinate and disseminate at national level. 

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

• 32 institutions from 26 countries.

• Start date:  1 March 2013

• Duration: 30 months.

LoCloud key data

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• Agility, Redundancy 

• Reduced maintenance costs

• Device and location independence

• Virtualisation

• Reliability

• Scalability and elasticity

• Performance

• Security

• Maintenance

Cloud computing: benefits 

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

– Geo‐location enrichment tools

– metadata enrichment

– multilingual vocabularies for local history

– historic place‐names ‘gazetteer’

– Wikimedia and crowdsourcing.

LoCloud: SaaS

Workpackages

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

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

WP 1WP 1

Planning, preparation and requirements Planning, preparation and requirements 

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

WP 2WP 2

Design and implementation of aggregation Design and implementation of aggregation infrastructure 

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Workpackages

Collaborative  cloud‐based testlab, involving partners and users; develop and implement a geolocation enrichment; metadata enrichment; multilingual vocabularies; historic place‐names; Wikimedia and crowdsourcing 

Collaborative  cloud‐based testlab, involving partners and users; develop and implement a geolocation enrichment; metadata enrichment; multilingual vocabularies; historic place‐names; Wikimedia and crowdsourcing 

WP 3WP 3

Micro services for small and medium institutionsMicro 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

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

WP 4WP 4

Enabling and supporting small and medium institutionsEnabling and supporting small and medium institutions

Workpackages

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

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

WP 5WP 5

Evaluation and impact assessment Evaluation and impact assessment 

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

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

WP 6WP 6

Dissemination and exploitation Dissemination and exploitation 

Coordination with Europeana Cloud developmentsCoordination with Europeana Cloud developments

WP 7WP 7

Management and coordinationManagement and coordination

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• Review of the state‐of‐the‐art in cloud‐based content management and aggregation services relevant to LoCloud’s needs and to small and medium sized institutions (SMS) (D1.1 Report on the state‐of‐the art monitoring and situational analysis)

• Survey to evaluate content and metadata to be made available by each content provider partner (D1.3 Content and metadata analysis)

• Defined metadata schemas to be used in LoCloud as intermediaries to EDM (D1.2 Definition of metadata schemas)

Work progress

EuroMed2014 and Work to be donewww.euromed2014.eu

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H2020

The Multiannual Financial Framework 2014‐2020: European Council conclusions, 8 February 2013

Education, Youth, Sport

Connecting Europe Facility

Key challenge: stabilise the financial and economic system while taking measures to create economic opportunities

1. Smart & inclusive growth (€451 billion)

2. Sustainable growth, natural resources (€373 billion)3. Security and citizenship (€16 billion)4. Global Europe (€58 billion)5. Administration (€61.6 billion)

(figures are given in constant prices)

Education, Youth, Sport

Connecting Europe Cohesion

Competitive Business

SMEs

HORIZON 2020

TOTAL€960 billion

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The new European Union programme for research and innovation for 2014‐2020

An integrated programme coupling research to 

innovation 

Challenge based 

Strong focus on SMEs

Major simplification

What is Horizon 2020?

€ 79 billion from 2014 to 2020

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• More strategic

• Two year work programmes 

(2014‐2015: > € 15 billion)

• Less prescriptive calls (64 calls in 2014)

Broader and fewer topics

First call deadlines as from March 2014

New approach to work programmesand calls

Societal Challenges (29.7 billions)

Excellent Science (24,4 billions)

Industrial Leadership (17 billions)

Horizon 2020: Three major priorities

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Work Programme 2014 – Funding for calls

Societal Challenges Pillar:~ € 2.8 billion

Health, demographic change and wellbeing 2 calls € 600 million

Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine and Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy 3 calls € 300 million

Secure, clean and efficient energy 4 calls € 600 million

Smart, green and integrated transport 3 calls € 540 million

Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials 3 calls € 300 million

Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective societies 5 calls € 112 million

Secure Societies 4 calls € 200 million

In addition

Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation 3 calls € 50 million

Science with and for Society 4 calls € 45 million

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Work Programme 2014 – Funding for calls

Excellent Science Pillar:~ € 3 billion

European Research Council 4 calls € 1 662 million

Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions 6 calls € 800 million

Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) 4 calls € 200 million European Research Infrastructures (including e-Infrastructures) 4 calls € 277 million

Work Programme 2014 – Funding for calls

Industrial Leadership Pillar:~ € 1.4 billion

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) 2 calls € 700 million

Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Production 5 calls € 500 million

Space 5 calls € 128 million

Access to Risk Finance 2 calls € 5 million

Innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises(Does not include €3 billion for SME instrument or Eurostars) 1 call € 10 million

In addition € 300 million for Financial Instruments (not through calls)

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Personalising health and care (€ 549 million)

Blue growth: unlocking the potential of seas and oceans

(€ 100 million)

Overcoming the crisis: new ideas and strategies to overcome the

crisis in Europe (€ 35 million)

Some examples:

First Horizon 2020 calls: 12 focus areas

• 20% of budget from societal challenges and LEITs 

• New SME instrument: > € 500 million in 2014‐2015

• Support measures under 'Innovation in SMEs' 

• Access to risk finance

• Participation with Member States (Public‐Public) Eurostars joint programme

Strong focus on SMEs

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• Social Sciences and Humanities (over € 400 million) >200 topics (at least 35% of the total topics in the Work Programme) Budget over € 400 million Topics ‘flagged’ by the system designed for searching the Work ProgrammeIn addition ERC (around 17% of budget for SSH) Marie Skłodowska-Curie actionsGender Explicitly integrated in all the sections of the Work Programme Specific call under Science with and for Society (€ 9.5 million) Topics are flagged to ease access for applicantsClimate Change ~35% of the budget for activities addressing climate change Climate topics are of particular importance in some of the focus areas of the Work Programme

International cooperation Principle of general openness: the programme will remain the most open funding programme in theworld

Open to the association of: enlargement countries / EFTA / European Neighbourhood (and othersassociated to FP7)

Targeted actions to be implemented taking a strategic approach to international cooperation

Cross‐cutting issues across the Work Programmes

• And additional contractual Public‐Private Partnerships

In addition

• €22 billion Innovation Investment Package proposed by Commission (July 2013)

• Joint programmes (with Member States, under Article 185)

• Joint Technology Initiatives (with industry under Article 187)

Partnerships with industry and Member States

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1. A single set of rules for all funding under Horizon 2020

Fewer, more flexible, funding instruments

2. Simpler reimbursement: 1 project = 1 funding rate

100% of the total eligible costs (70% for innovation actions)

Non‐profit legal entities can also receive 100% in innovation actions

Single flat rate for indirect costs (25% of eligible costs)

3. Faster time to grant

Within 8 months of call deadline

Major Simplification for the benefit of applicants

• 4. Fewer, better targeted controls and audits

• 5. Coherent implementation

Through dedicated agencies 

Single IT system

• 6. Simplification in grant agreements

Major Simplification for the benefit of applicants

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Evaluation criteria

Proposal evaluated by the experts “as it is” 

and not as “what could be” = no need for negotiation

Innovation actions higher weighting for "IMPACT"

STANDARD AWARD CRITERIA

QUALITY & EFFICIENCY

OF THE ACTIONIMPACTEXCELLENCE

ERC frontier Research actions only EXCELLENCE

• Single entry point ‐ from calls to electronicsubmission of proposals

• New tools for smart searches for the benefitof users, including newcomers to theprogramme.

Simpler access through the

Participant Portal

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Country profile - Cyprus

H2020 Societal Challenge 6 and 7

Reflective Societies Cultural Heritage and European

Identities

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Societal Challenge 6• The objective is to develop new technologies to

enhance the analysis of cultural resources to improve our understanding of how European identity can be traced, constructed or debated and to use those resources to foster innovation across sectors.

• Research and Innovation should be driven by Social Sciences, Humanities and Cultural Heritage Communities in collaboration with ICT sector.

Innovation ecosystems of digital cultural assets • CHALLENGE: showcase how digital cultural

resources can promote creativity and generate innovation in research, lead to richer interpretations of the past, bring new perspectives to questions of identity and culture, and generate societal and economic benefits…

• …through the development of new environments, applications, tools, and services for digital cultural resources in scientific collections, archives, museums, libraries and cultural heritage sites.

(Innovation Action - 70% funding, budget 11 MEUR – 2015 call)

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Advanced 3D modeling for accessing and understanding European cultural assets

a. Research on cost‐effective technologies for advanced 3D modellingand analysis of physical cultural resources and assets (e.g. cultural heritage sites, monuments, sculptures, archaeological sites) beyond simple digital reconstruction. 

b. Devise standard formats for 3D modeling of Europe's cultural heritage with a view to improve their archiving, reusability and sustainability. The proposed formats should enable easy exchange, publishing and use of 3D models that have been acquired or generated by a wide range of devices or software. 

(Research Action ‐ 100% funding, budget 15 MEUR – 2014 call) 

Societal Challenge 7

H2020 Leadership in Enabling and Industrial

Technologies

Content technologies and information management: ICT for digital content,

cultural and creative industries

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Industrial Leadership (LEIT) 

• The successful mastering, integration and deployment of enabling technologies by European industry is a key factor in strengthening Europe's productivity and innovation capacity and ensuring Europe has an advanced, sustainable and competitive economy, global leadership in high‐tech application… [H2020 legal base] 

• ICT – Challenge 4 "Content technologies and information management: ICT for digital content, cultural and creative industries" focuses on "strengthening Europe’s position as provider of products and services based on individual and business creativity." 

ICT 18 – Support the growth of ICT innovative Creative SMEs

Target: Leveraging emerging ICT technologies for the development of innovative products, tools, applications and services in the creative industries with high commercial potential. 

Requirements: Creative industry SMEs driven, Existing market demand, Cost‐effective, Market‐ready solution, Target international markets. 

(Innovation Action ‐ 70% funding, budget 15 MEUR – 2014 call) 

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ICT 19 ‐ Technologies for creative industries, social media and convergence 

• Scope: The focus is on research, development and exploitation of new emerging technologies (e.g. 3D and augmented reality technologies) for digital content creation to support the creative and media industries and for unlocking and interacting with complex information and media. 

• Focus on research in new technologies and tools to support creative industries in the creative process from idea conception to production. 

(Research Action ‐ 100% funding, budget 18 MEUR – 2015 call) 

European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF)

European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 

• supporting productive investment and local development 

European Social Fund (ESF) 

• supporting the employment sector i.e. jobs, and job opportunities for all EU citizens 

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Digitization of Cultural Heritage to boost innovation

http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/digitisation-heritage

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