Europeana Conference 2014 Presentation by Christian M. Stracke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Berlin, Germany 4-7 March 2014

1. local content in a Europeana cloud for small & medium content providers
Prof (KR) Christian M. Stracke
Coordinator European and International Cooperation University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany
LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme

3. http://www.locloud.eu
LoCLoud?

4. •Build on success of Best Practice Networks CARARE and Europeana Local (30% of content in Europeana)
–4 million resources + new items;
•Support small & medium institutions to make metadata and content available to Europeana;
•Bring together local history and heritage resources which are currently unevenly represented in Europeana;
•More coherent views of content relating to a given locality.
Main goals of LoCloud

5. •32 institutions from 26 countries: coordinated by Riksarkivet (National Archives of Norway), NO.
•Strong group of technical partners, already contributors to development of Europeana.
•National and regional aggregation services or content providers acting as pilot implementers of the cloud services; coordinate & disseminate at national level.
•Partners with specific expertise in key aspects such as vocabularies & impact assessment.
•Started: 1st March 2013, ending: 1st March 2016.
•Co-funded by the European Commission (CIP ICT-PSP programme); budget: 4,25 Mio € for 36 months
LoCloud key data

6. •Agility
•API
•Reduced maintenance costs
•Device and location independence
•Virtualisation
•Reliability
•Scalability and elasticity
•Performance
•Security
•Maintenance
Cloud computing: benefits

7. •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

8. •Provide cloud-based software services to enable more discoverable and interoperable content;
–Geo-location enrichment tools
–metadata enrichment
–multilingual vocabularies for local history
–historic place-names ‘gazetteer’
–Wikimedia and crowdsourcing.
LoCloud: SaaS

9. Workpackages
Briefing, action planning in each country; state of the art in relevant cloud infrastructures; content and metadata analysis; requirements analysis
WP 1
Planning, preparation and requirements
Specify, modify, test, implement core infrastructure components: MINT, MoRe, Lightweight digital library – all build on existing work
WP 2
Design and implementation of aggregation infrastructure

10. 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
WP 3
Micro 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
WP 4
Enabling and supporting small and medium institutions

11. Workpackages
Group of inter-related evaluation activities: infrastructure, metadata and content; impact on institutions and end users; Recommendations
WP 5
Evaluation and impact assessment
Website and social media; national and international conferences and events; competition among Europe’s regions; sustainability planning; work with aggregators
WP 6
Dissemination and exploitation
Coordination with Europeana Cloud developments
WP 7
Management and coordination

13. LoCloud and ...
Over 4 million digitised resources from European cultural institutions added to europeana.eu, the European library, museum and archive.
... europeana

14. LoCloud and ...
Supporting small and medium sized cultural institutions to make their digitised content accessible through Europeana.
... local heritage

15. LoCloud and ...
A cloud-based infrastructure for
metadata aggregation and harvesting with high efficiency and reduced maintenance costs.
... the cloud

16. LoCloud and ...
Geographic location, historical place names, metadata enrichment, multi-lingual vocabularies, crowd-sourcing, Wikimedia, to enhance the user’s experience in Europeana.
... many micro-services

17. •Review of the state-of-the-art in cloud-based content management and aggregation services relevant to LoCloud’s needs and to small and medium sized institutions (D1.1)
•Survey to evaluate content and metadata to be made available by each content provider partner (D1.3)
•Defined metadata schemas to be used in LoCloud as intermediaries to EDM (D1.2)
•Many more deliverables under development
Work progress

18. •Three content provider workshops organised in Denmark, UK & Spain to discuss implementation of the cloud infrastructure and services for SMS institutions and core user requirements;
•On-going house-museums survey to identify house- museums in Europe as content providers to Europeana;
•LoCloud dissemination strategy in place (D6.1 Initial Dissemination Plan), newsletter, poster, fact-sheet, video;
•Evaluation plan and impact assessment strategy;
•www.locloud.eu; https://twitter.com/LoCloudProject
Work progress

19. NEW International Metadata Standard, approved and published by ISO in 2011:
ISO/IEC 19788 (MLR)
developed by SC36 after 10 years of global discussions
Flexible, rule-based and allowing APs and mapping to all other schemes (incl. EDM)!
Excurse: ISO Metadata

20. Evaluation and Impact Assessment:
QM and Evaluation not as a task for itself but as value-adding to LoCloud, for all partners & all outcomes
Internal as well as external impact assessment by IDEAL & EFI frameworks
Evaluation & Impact ...

21. Evaluation & Impact Assessment
Evaluation & Impact ...
Evaluation Dimensions
Evaluation Objects
Process Evaluation
LoCloud Processes
Output Evaluation
LoCloud Deliverables
Impact related Objectives
LoCloud Objectives
Socio-economic Impact related Usage
LoCloud End Users

22. Evaluation & Impact Assessment
Evaluation & Impact ...
Potential Instruments
Ev.?
RA?
IA?
Evaluation Plan & System
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Meeting Questionnaire
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Deliverable Relationships’ Diagram (DRD)
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Deliverable Relationship Matrix (DRM)
(X)
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General Risk Identification Template (GRIT)
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(X)
General Risk Assessment Questionnaire (GRAQ)
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(X)
Cognitive Walkthrough
X
Deliverable Planning Diagram (DPD)
(X)
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Analysis DRD/DPD vs. DoW
(X)
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Special Risk Identification Template (SRIT)
X
(X)
Critical Aspects Analysis
X
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Functional Testing
X
(X)
Usability Study
X
(X)
Deliverable Progress Monitoring (DPM)
X
(X)
(X)
Special Risk Assessment Questionnaire (SRAQ)
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(X)
Critical Aspects Monitoring (CAM)
X
Interim Progress Report
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(X)
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Document Content Review
X
Quality Reporting Template for Software Development
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Overview of Assigned Partners for DFR
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Document Final Review (DFR)
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SWOT Analysis
(X)
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Delphi Study
(X)
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(X)
Impact Assessment related Objectives
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Impact Assessment related Usage
X
Interim Evaluation Report
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(X)
(X)
Final Evaluation Report
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(X)
(X)

23. Evaluation Framework EFI:
Evaluation & Impact ...

24. LoCloud in brief:
Watch our video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyo7Z4KCIow
LoCLoud in brief

25. Join and follow LoCloud!
http://www.locloud.eu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyo7Z4KCIow
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26. Any questions?
http://www.locloud.eu
Christian M. Stracke
Christian.Stracke@uni-due.de
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