LoCloud Collections Introduction

Marcin WerlaPoznań Supercomputing and Networking Center

LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme

Basic components of a digital library

• Digital content and metadata• Soft IT infrastructure

– Software (digital library management system)

• Hard IT infrastructure– Service hardware (servers, storage, …)– Network connection and hardware

(firewall etc.)– … and a safe and secure place for all that

• People– Responsible for digital content and

metadata, advanced users of the DLMS– Responsible for soft IT infrastructure (admins)– Responsible for hard IT infrastructure (admins)

Content

Software

Hardware

Basic components of a digital library

• All mentioned components generate costs

• In smaller institutions there may be no proper hard IT infrastructure to reuse for a digital library

• Apart from costs - lack of expertiseto cope with IT infrastructure

• How to simplify deploymentand reduce the cost of having a digital library without limiting its value for end users?

Content

Software

HardwareFast

Useable

Interesting

LoCloud Collections

• Who can be interested in becoming LDL hosting provider?

– Commercial companies • Creating new source of revenue

– Metadata aggregators • Attracting/creating new metadata sources

• Partially based on public funding

– National research and education IT infrastructure providers • Extending the set of already provided services

(e.g. data archiving, fast network connections)

• Possibly with government funding

• Another option: collaborate with already existing hosting provider (PSNC)

LDL hosting providers

• Time to go to

http://locloudhosting.net