This document provides an introduction and overview of the Europeana Cloud project. The project aims to rethink how Europeana aggregates metadata from different institutions in a way that is more sustainable and cost-effective. It will involve 20 content providers, 3 aggregators, and 12 technical/strategic partners working together on building a shared technical infrastructure for ingesting and storing metadata and content. The goals are to investigate potential efficiencies around sub-aggregation, shared storage, and enriched data while establishing consensus on principles and a legal framework. The project will also explore building end-user services and tools on top of this infrastructure to support researchers. It consists of 7 work packages focused on different aspects of the project carried out by 35 partner institutions.

1. Introduction to Europeana Cloud
Alastair Dunning (The European Library)
Project Coordinator
Kick Off Meeting, 4/5 March 2013
Hashtag:
#cloud_EU

2. Europeana
AggregatorAggregator
Current situation for metadata aggregation

3. Europeana
The relationship is not reciprocal, it is costly and unsustainable
AggregatorAggregator

4. Europeana
The European Library
Polish Digital Library
Europeana Cloud project tries to rethink this situation

5. Europeana
The European LibraryPolish Digital Library
Cost reduction?
Sub-aggregations
for members ?
Ease of sharing?
Shared storage?
Enriched data
potential?

6. Who are the partners?
Europeana
The
European
Library
Polish Digital Library
20 contentproviders
3 aggregators
12 strategic /
technical partners

7. 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 Library

8. But that is not all!

9. 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

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

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

12. 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, Jan Molendijk / 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)

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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)

17. Questions ? No ?
Then try the honesty box.
Thanks to Harry
Verwayen for ideas
for these slides !