local content in a Europeana cloud Rob Davies, MDR Partners, Project Manager

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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 of LoCloud

1.Scientific coordinator (National Archive, Norway) and a project manager (MDR) 2.Strong group of technical partners, already important contributors to development of Europeana, including AIT, Athena RC, AVINET, IPCHS, NTUA and PSNC. 3.National and regional aggregation services or content providers who will act as pilot implementers of the cloud services; coordinate and disseminate at national level. 4.Partners with specific expertise in key aspects such as vocabularies. EU Member States represented (excluding Finland, Luxembourg and Malta) plus Iceland, Norway, Serbia and Turkey. Start date: 1 March 2013 Consortium etc

Drive European business and government productivity via cloud computing Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe European Commission Communication, September 2012 “Cloud computing is a game-changer for our economy. Without EU action, we will stay stuck in national fortresses and miss out on billions in economic gains. We must achieve critical mass and a single set of rules across Europe. We must tackle the perceived risks of cloud computing head-on.” Vice-President Neelie Kroes Digital Agenda: cloud computing strategy, 2012

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 D5.4 Analysis and recommendations Provincie Limburg will develop practice-oriented recommendations on future development of cloud services for small and medium sized institutions in varying regional and national circumstances. D5.4 Analysis and recommendations Provincie Limburg will develop practice-oriented recommendations on future development of cloud services for small and medium sized institutions in varying regional and national circumstances.

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

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