Where is EUROPEANA CLOUD taking us ?

Alastair Dunning | Europeana 2015 AGM

The original plan

Netherlands, Public Domain

1660 - 1625, Rijksmuseum

Anonymous

Arrival of a Portuguese ship

We’re on a mission

•Giving aggregators and data providers a cheaper, more sustainable infrastructure for storing and sharing metadata and content•Helping making that

metadata richer•Getting more people to use

that metadata and the related content

We want to help the Europeana ecosystem by:

National Library of France, Public Domain

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 Lausannoi

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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 and content 2.Define who can use that metadata and content and in what ways (download, annotate, delete)3.Give third parties access via APIs

The European Library

Three aggregators will use 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 (now many more) metadata items. www.europeana.eu

Helping aggregators and data providers.

What we hoped to provide as benefits for aggregators (and data providers)→Lowered costs→A more efficient way to share metadata with Europeana→Ability for third parties to enrich your metadata (eg. find place names, make links, convert formats)

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Netherlands, Public Domain

1660 - 1625, Rijksmuseum

Anonymous

Arrival of a Portuguese ship

What We Discovered

What we have discovered …. → Storage and sharing of

data not the key issue for other aggregators. Rather …

→ Metadata mapping is a slow process, with too many steps, services and discussions required

→ Aggregators need the ability to curate (ingest, map, enrich) their data at greater speed

→ Many see possibilities for enrichment, but do not have the tools for it National Library of France, Public Domain

What we have discovered …. →Services more

important than storage

→ Also, building robust, reliable services is time consuming

→ Focus on services for aggregators before opening up same services to data providers

→ Results published here→ Given this, Europeana

Cloud will now focus onNational Library of France, Public Domain

Europeana Cloud will have completedBy April 2016

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1. Underlying Storage Service

With API for upload and download of data

2. Access Framework

Determining rules for use and reuse of data

3. IIIF Service

For hosting high-resolution images

Europeana Cloud will have completedBy April 2016

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4. User ManualHow partners can use Europeana Cloud

5. Governance ModelEuropeana Cloud as an independent cooperative legal entity

6. Business Plan / Cost ModelWith roadmap for attracting new partners and sustaining eCloud

7. WebsiteGiving background information

Europeana Cloud will work with test cases in first instance

Some test cases

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1. Europeana NewspapersPublishing 5m+ images of historic newspapers

2. Food and Drink Working with ICT-PSP project to host digitised content

3. MuseuHelping museums aggregator with technical infrastructure

4. Sample content from eCloud project partners 5. The European Library

Integrating ingestion workflow and data into Europeana Cloud

The Longer Horizon

France, Public Domain

1921, National Library of France

Agence de presse Meurisse

Colombes : championnats de France d’Athlétisme :rivière, le speaker

Developing Europeana Cloud as a hub by which aggregation occurs. Storage and relevant services developed over time.

France, Public Domain

1588,  Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon

Hendrik Goltzius

Le dragon dévorant les compagnons

de Cadmus

This vision remains → This would allow

members of Europeana Cloud to:

1.Upload metadata and content 2.Define who can use that metadata and content and in what ways (download, annotate, delete)3.Give third parties access via APIs

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This vision remains, but with added tools

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IngestionTools

Enrichment Tools

Publishing Tools

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Developing Cloud Services

Seven previously mentioned outputs

- Storage- IIIF - Governance- Business

Plan- etc

eCloud Project DSI1 ->2016 DSI2 -> 2017 DSI3 ->2018

Building tools to respond to aggregator requirements→ Allowing metadata mapping to become

an easier, quicker, less frictional process → Ensuring tools are both robust and user-

friendly → Better tools for enrichment and content

checking → Responding to new demands as expert

hubs→ Providing for data providers in later

stages (DSI3)

“The vision for Europeana Cloud is tremendous.

Feels like a global game changer.”

Andy Neale, Digital New Zealand, at Europeana Tech, February 2015

United Kingdom, CC BY

The Wellcome Library

Luigi Garzi

The birth of Adonis and the transformation of Myrrha

Now we need to put this vision into place.