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

Briefing, action planning in each country; state of the art in relevant cloud infrastructures; content and metadata analysis; requirements analysis

WP 1WP 1

Planning, preparation and requirements Planning, preparation and requirements

Specify, modify, test, implement core infrastructure components: MINT, MoRe, Lightweight digital library – all build on existing work Specify, modify, test, implement core infrastructure components: MINT, MoRe, Lightweight digital library – all build on existing work

WP 2WP 2Design and implementation of aggregation infrastructure 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

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 3WP 3

Micro services for small and medium institutionsMicro 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

Regional training workshops, video, online course; documentation and help desk; support portal – centre of expertise; service sustainability planning with Europeana

WP 4WP 4Enabling and supporting small and medium institutionsEnabling and supporting small and medium institutions

Workpackages

Group of inter-related evaluation activities: infrastructure, metadata and content; impact on institutions and end users; Recommendations

Group of inter-related evaluation activities: infrastructure, metadata and content; impact on institutions and end users; Recommendations

WP 5WP 5Evaluation and impact assessment Evaluation and impact assessment

Website and social media; national and international conferences and events; competition among Europe’s regions; sustainability planning; work with aggregators

Website and social media; national and international conferences and events; competition among Europe’s regions; sustainability planning; work with aggregators

WP 6WP 6Dissemination and exploitation Dissemination and exploitation

Coordination with Europeana Cloud developmentsCoordination with Europeana Cloud developments

WP 7WP 7Management and coordinationManagement 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

Thank yourob.davies@mdrpartners.com