Introduction to Europeana Cloud #cloud_EU

Europeana Aggregator Current situation for metadata aggregation

Europeana The relationship is not reciprocal, it is costly and unsustainable Aggregator

Europeana The European Library Polish Digital Libraries Federation Europeana Cloud project tries to rethink this situation

Europeana The European Library Cost reduction? Sub-aggregations for members ? Ease of sharing? Shared storage? Enriched data potential? Polish Digital Libraries Federation

Who are the partners? Europeana The European Library 20 content providers 3 aggregators 12 strategic / technical partners Polish 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

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 & Data

In scope for the project (Europeana Research): Europeana Research Platform Content & Data Tools “Portal” “Annotation” “API” “SPARQL” Services

To allow others to build apps and services on GLAM Creative industries

Project Details Start Date – February 2013 End Date – January 2016 Total 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 CIP-ICT-PSP Project number 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

7 Work Packages WP1 - 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 Partners 1 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 Partners 11 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 Partners 21 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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