Essential FactsName, title

Date

3-year project…………………………………………………….............

Coordinated by The European Library and running until January 2016.

Funded by the EU………………………………………………………..….............

Total project cost of 4.75 million euros (80% from the EU under the ICT-PSP programme).

The Netherlands: Europeana, The European Library, CERL, LIBER, OAPEN, KNAW, Kennisland, Free University of Amsterdam, Tilburg University

Belgium: Ariadne Foundation, Catholic University of Leuven, Free University of Brussels

Sweden: Gothenburg University

Poland: Polish Digital Libraries Foundation

Germany: Bavarian State Library, Central and East European Online Library, Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland, University of Bielefeld, DARIAH

Italy: National Research Council, Cinecitta’ Luce Spa

Greece: University of Patras, Athena Research and Innovation Centre

Spain: Dialnet Foundation

United Kingdom: MDR Partners, National Library of Wales, The Open University, University College London, University of Edinburgh

Ireland: Trinity College Dublin

Czech Republic: National Technical Library

Finland: Finnish National Archives

Denmark: Royal Library and National Library of Copenhagen University

Croatia: Croatian Academy for Science & Arts

Hungary: University of Debrecen

Romania: University of Sibiu

35 Partners

Together, we’re on a mission.

We want to help the Europeana ecosystem by:

Making the metadata richer

Getting more people to use that metadata and the related content

Giving aggregators and data providers a cheaper, more sustainable infrastructure for storing metadata and content

National Library of France, Public Domain

Helping aggregators and data providers.

We aim to create:

Flexible and scalable data processing facilities

More transparent monitoring and costing

Ability for third parties to enrich your metadata (eg. find place names, convert formats)

Change tracking, versioning support and globally unique identifiers

A workspace for aggregation partners National Library of Wales, CC BY-NC-SA

We have 3 main tasks

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1. Building a new aggregation system.Metadata currently travels in one direction, towards Europeana.

Audiovisual collections

National Aggregators

Regional Aggregators

Archives

Thematic collections

Libraries

e.g. Musées Lausannois

e.g. Culture Grid,

Culture.fr

e.g. The European Library

e.g. APEX

e.g. EUScreen, European Film Gateway

e.g. Judaica Europeana, Europeana Fashion

Our alternative is a shared, cloud-based infrastructure.

This would allow members of Europeana Cloud to:

1.Upload metadata

2.Define who can use that metadata and in what ways (download, annotate, delete)

3.Give third parties access via APIs

It will include version control…

All versions have their own unique IDs

Provider Local IDs and Europeana Cloud IDs are mapped to each other

You keep full control of your version in Europeana Cloud

…and will be built on a Hybrid-cloud structure.

We will develop tools to manage

resource reallocation and data transfers

between the two cloud types.

We will be able to access public-cloud services on demand.

This will allow us to quickly adapt to changes in workload.

We can also shift resources to the public if this would save us money.

The non-public part of our cloud will be Community based.

Users will access it via an API from systems installed in their data centres.

Advantages: technically robust, potential for high efficiency gains and savings

The European Library

Initially, three aggregators will test this new infrastructure.

……………………………………………………………….............................Contributing 120m bibliographic records and 20m metadata items. www.theeuropeanlibrary.org

Polish Digital Libraries Federation…………………………………………………………….............

........Contributing 1.5m metadata items.

www.fbc.pionier.net.pl

Europeana

……………………………………………………………….....................................Contributing 30m metadata items. www.europeana.eu

2. Defining the principles of engagement.

We’re working on a number of structural and legal issues. For example:

1. A business model to ensure economic viability.

2. A revised legal framework.

3. Working out the rules for membership of eCloud

4. A roadmap (integrated with Europeana’s strategic plan) that outlines how to attract partners

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3. Developing Europeana Research

APIs will allow third parties to build on top of data in eCloud

1. Europeana Research - set of third-party tools exploiting data in eCloud

2. Focus on research communities in arts, humanities and social sciences

3. Partners in- and outside the project will contribute metadata (and content as well) to be part of eCloud and the tools

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Timeline

20132013 20142014 20152015

Operating Principles determined (M18).

Prototype of metadata cloud created (M12).

Prototype of content cloud created (M18).

Governance structure

complete (M28).

Technical Infrastructure

Complete (M30).Europeana Researchunveiled (M36).

20162016

Minimum requirements

outlined (M10).eCloud

deployed as sustainable

service (M36).

Thanks for listening!

Learn more about our project:

@europeana_cloud #cloud_EU

www.pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana.cloud

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