This presentation provides an introduction to LoCloud Collections delivered in the 2014 LoCloud training workshops. It covers the basic components of a digital library, and how to set up LoCloud collections (which is designed for smaller cultural institutions), and concludes by looking at options for hosting providers

1. LoCloud Collections Introduction
Marcin Werla
Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center
LoCloud is funded by the
European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme

2. 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

3. 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 expertise
to cope with IT infrastructure
• How to simplify deployment
and reduce the cost of having
a digital library
without limiting
its value
for end users?
Content
Software
Hardware
Fast
Useable
Interesting

4. LoCloud Collections

21. • 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

22. • Time to go to
http://locloudhosting.net