LoCloud is a 3-year project funded by the European Commission to explore using cloud computing technologies to enhance Europeana. During the second year, LoCloud completed developing tools and services including geolocation enrichment, metadata tagging, and vocabulary services. These were integrated into the LoCloud aggregation infrastructure consisting of MINT, MORe, and LoCloud Collections. Training and first datasets were also delivered to Europeana.
Description of Microservices as building blocks of an Micro-SOA. Result of the EU-funded project LoCloud.
Content:
• Project Context
• LoCloud Microservices
• Vocabulary Microservices
– Technical Insights (examples)
• Microservices and Modern System
Architectures
– Deployment
– Marketplace
Description of Microservices as building blocks of an Micro-SOA. Result of the EU-funded project LoCloud.
Content:
• Project Context
• LoCloud Microservices
• Vocabulary Microservices
– Technical Insights (examples)
• Microservices and Modern System
Architectures
– Deployment
– Marketplace
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Digital Heritage 2015: International TAG CLOUD Project Workshop
Presentation by Holly Wright, Archaeology Data Service, United Kingdom\
Granada, Spain
29 September 2015
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Presentation by Holly Wright, Archaeology Data Service, United Kingdom\
Granada, Spain
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Congresso Sociedade Brasileira de Computação CSBC2016 Porto Alegre (Brazil)
Workshop on Cloud Networks & Cloudscape Brazil
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Cloud Federation & Open Science Cloud at cross-regional level
Presentation given by Walter Koch and Gerda Koch AIT- Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungs-GmbH, Graz, Austria
LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
LoCloud Micro Services and the Digitisation Workflowlocloud
LoCloud EVA / Minerva Workshop 2015
Workshop organised by LoCloud as part of XIIth Annual International Conference for Professionals in Cultural Heritage,
Presentation by Walter Koch
AIT-Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungs GmbH, Graz - Austria
Jerusalem, Israel
8 November 2015
LoCloud - D3.7: Report on services developed for local cultural institutionslocloud
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This deliverable provides a summary status report of the microservices that have been developed for the LoCloud project. Microservices are small, lightweight software services that each perform a set of narrowly defined functions. The various services can be arranged in independently deployable groups and can communicate with each other via defined interfaces. The distributed architecture makes it easier to deploy new versions of services, and to scale the development. In the LoCloud project the development effort for the various services was organized around multiple development teams realizing five main groups of microservices. Among these services are geolocation enrichment tools, metadata enrichment and vocabulary services, historic place names and Wikimedia crowdsourcing services. These microservices can be used and combined as needed by the content providing institutions. All microservices have been implemented on virtual machines in a cloud testlab (using the OpenNebula cloud computing platform) and all services are also integrated in the LoCloud aggregation platform MORe.
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Presentation given by Kate Fernie at the Europeana Cloud project meeting giving an overview of the LoCloud services including: LoCloud Collections, the MORe aggregation service, the MINT mapping tool and the microservices for geo-location, geo-coding, historic placenames, background links, vocabulary matching and vocabulary services.
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Slides created by JISC: Programme Manager Amber Thomas, Programme Office Alicja Shah, Technical Advisory JISC Cetis particularly Martin Hawksey. Dandelion Clock sourced through flickr and attributed on the front slide.
Digital Cultural Heritage and the new EU Framework Programmelocloud
2nd LoCloud Awareness Event at the Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus 5 March 2014. Presentation delivered by Marinos Ioannides, Cyprus University of Technology
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LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
LoCloud geolocation enrichment tools: On the Maplocloud
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Asplan Viak Internet AS, Norway
LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
Presentation given by Vassilis Tzouvaras
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
Presentation given by Dr. Dimitris Gavrilis
Digital Curation Unit - IMIS, Athena Research Center
LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
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LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
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LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
LoCloud Collections, or how to make your local heritage available on-linelocloud
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Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
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LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
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Archaeology Data Service University of York, UK
LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
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LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
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LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
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Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
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LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
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Fondazione Ranieri di Sorbello
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LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
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LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
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LoCloud Conference
Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services
Amersfoort, Netherlands
5 February 2016
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Authors:
Silvia Alfreider (NRA)
Joachim Fugleberg (NRA)
Ole Myhre Hansen (NRA)
Kate Fernie (2Culture Associates)
Contributors: All partners
Author: Sheena Bassett and Kate Fernie, 2Culture Associates
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Carol Usher, 2Culture Associates
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In the contemporary digital age, the internet is a cornerstone of our daily lives. It connects us to vast amounts of information, provides platforms for communication, enables commerce, and offers endless entertainment. However, with these conveniences come significant security challenges. Internet security is essential to protect our digital identities, sensitive data, and overall online experience. This comprehensive guide explores the multifaceted world of internet security, providing insights into its importance, common threats, and effective strategies to safeguard your digital world.
## Understanding Internet Security
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### Key Components of Internet Security
1. **Confidentiality**: Ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to access it.
2. **Integrity**: Protecting information from being altered or tampered with by unauthorized parties.
3. **Availability**: Ensuring that authorized users have reliable access to information and resources when needed.
## Common Internet Security Threats
Cyber threats are numerous and constantly evolving. Understanding these threats is the first step in protecting against them. Some of the most common internet security threats include:
### Malware
Malware, or malicious software, is designed to harm, exploit, or otherwise compromise a device, network, or service. Common types of malware include:
- **Viruses**: Programs that attach themselves to legitimate software and replicate, spreading to other programs and files.
- **Worms**: Standalone malware that replicates itself to spread to other computers.
- **Trojan Horses**: Malicious software disguised as legitimate software.
- **Ransomware**: Malware that encrypts a user's files and demands a ransom for the decryption key.
- **Spyware**: Software that secretly monitors and collects user information.
### Phishing
Phishing is a social engineering attack that aims to steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details. Attackers often masquerade as trusted entities in email or other communication channels, tricking victims into providing their information.
### Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Attacks
MitM attacks occur when an attacker intercepts and potentially alters communication between two parties without their knowledge. This can lead to the unauthorized acquisition of sensitive information.
### Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks
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1. Local content in a Europeana cloud
Publishable Summary
Annual Report 2014 - 2015
LoCloud is funded by the European Commission’s
ICT Policy Support Programme
Version: 1.2
2. LoCloud is a Best Practce network that brings together technical partners, Ministries, Natonal and Regional
organisatons responsible for archives, libraries, museums and the archaeological heritage, research
insttutons and cultural memory insttutons from across Europe. LoCloud started on 1 March 2013 and
runs for 3 years. The project's main objectves are:
1. Exploring the potental of cloud computng technologies for enhancing Europeana, working on the
development of a cloud infrastructure and the creaton of sofware services aimed to beneft both
content providers and users.
2. Facilitatng the role of small and medium sized insttutons by supportng them in making their
content available to Europeana and using the cloud to provide services and tools that help to reduce
technical, semantc and skills barriers.
Summary of actvites
During year 2 of the project, LoCloud has focussed on:
• Completng the implementaton of the LoCloud aggregaton infrastructure
• Developing and testng the micro-services and tools (geolocaton enrichment, geocoding service,
metadata enrichment, vocabulary services, historic place names service, Wikimedia applicaton and
the Crawler Ready Tagging Tools)
• Developing and testng LoCloud Collectons
• Integratng the major components, micro-services and tools into the MORe aggregator
• Establishing the support portal, documentaton and help desk to meet the needs of content
partners
• Delivering training for LoCloud content partners
• Preparing content for harvestng and delivering the frst datasets to Europeana
• Disseminatng news and informaton about the project and promotng the new services.
3. LoCloud Aggregaton Infrastructure
The implementaton of the LoCloud Aggregaton infrastructure was completed during 2014-15 with the
development of a series of new services and improvements to existng services. The core of the LoCloud
aggregaton infrastructure consists of MINT, MORe services and LoCloud Collectons (formerly known as the
Lightweight Digital Library). MORe provides the hub, connected with both MINT and LoCloud Collectons
and a central point of access to the micro-services developed by the project: Geolocaton API, Geocoding
applicaton, Background link micro-service, Vocabulary mapping micro-service, Vocabulary service, Historic
place names service, Wikimedia applicaton and the Crawler Ready Tagging Tools. These services were
developed based on specifcatons established by the project and tested by LoCloud content partners before
being implemented in the LoCloud Aggregaton infrastructure.
htp://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/locloud/
MINT
Provides users with the ability to map their
metadata to reference models supported by the
project: EDM, ESE, CARARE and LIDO. MINT
includes statstcs and reportng modules that help
users to prepare and quality assure their metadata
prior to submission to MORe and Europeana.
MINT was established by NTUA for LoCloud.
MORe
Provides services for harvestng, ingestng,
validatng, transforming, enriching and publishing
metadata. MORe has a cloud architecture which is
scaleable. An intuitve user interface ofers users
quick statstcs and analyses as their content is
ingested. All of the LoCloud microservices are
integrated in MORe alongside metadata validaton
tools. Enrichment and validaton plans help users to
prepare and quality assure their metadata in
preparaton for harvestng by Europeana.
MORe was established by Athena RC for LoCloud. htp://store.locloud.eu/
htps://locloudhostng.net
LoCloud Collectons
A lightweight, out of the box repository, which is
provided as a cloud-based service. LoCloud
collectons is designed for small memory
insttutons, is simple and easy to start. It supports
multple collectons and many data formats, is
multlingual and allows users to created and
customize the public interface to their collectons
online. LoCloud collectons is compatble with
Europeana and is integrated with MORe. LoCloud
Collectons was implemented by PSNC for LoCloud.
Enrichment micro-services
The Background links micro-service automatcally
creates links from content items to background
informaton in DBpedia.
The Vocabulary matching micro-service
automatcally creates links from metadata items to
classes in vocabularies provided via the LoCloud
Vocabulary service.
Both services were developed by UPV/EHU for
LoCloud and are implemented as REST services.
htp://support.locloud.eu/Metadata enrichment API
technical documentaton
4. htp://support.locloud.eu/Geolocaton Enrichment
Tools
Geographic enrichment services
The Geolocaton API (LoGeo) developed by IPCHS
allows users to resolve a search term into candidate
place names with spatal coordinates.
The Geocoding applicaton developed by AVINET
enables users to enrich metadata records with
geographical coordinates via a map-based user
interface. The applicaton uses the LoGeo API but
may also be implemented as a stand-alone
applicaton for crowd sourcing projects.
Vocabulary Service
Provides a vocabulary applicaton that incorporates
multlingual vocabularies and supports collaboratve
work by content providers in creatng and updatng
vocabularies. The service is made available via a
REST API. It is integrated into MORe where it is used
in metadata enrichment. The service can also be
used online by cultural insttutons or via its API for
integraton in content management systems.
The Vocabulary Service was developed by AIT for
LoCloud.
htp://support.locloud.eu/LoCloud%20Vocabulary
%20Microservice
Historic Place Names Service
A prototype applicaton developed by VUKF to
enable content insttutons to collaborate in the
development of a historic place names thesaurus.
The service integrate historic place names data sets
provided by LoCloud partners. It allows for the
visualisaton of historic place names on a map base,
and for the enrichment of metadata records.
htp://support.locloud.eu/LoCloud Historical
Placenames Microservice
Wikimedia applicaton
A web service that uses a REST interface to
communicate with Wikimedia commons to capture
core metadata about images. The service is
designed to be used to enable content published by
independent photographers or small cultural
insttutons in Wikimedia commons to be provided
to Europeana. htp://support.locloud.eu/Wikimedia
htp://support.locloud.eu/
Crawler Ready Tagging Tools
A set of experimental web tools developed by
AVINET that can be used to automatcally extract
structured metadata from HTML web pages using
the crawling method of mainstream search engines.
The tools include a web applicaton for submitng
URLs for crawling, a scheduled crawler task and a
scheduled indexer task. Tests demonstrated the
CRTT is a viable way of aggregatng an index for free-
text searches, with optmizaton for search engines
qualifed EDM objects can be produced.
5. Training and support
During 2014-15 a support portal and help desk were established for LoCloud. The support portal
(htp://support.locloud.eu) provides users with access to the technical and user documentaton for LoCloud
services provided by the technical partners. The portal is publicly available online and incorporates a
queston and answer service to provide access to frequently asked questons and also to enable members of
the LoCloud network to share their expertse and experience of digitsaton, metadata, vocabularies, using
partcular systems and so on. The support portal provides a point of access to the eLearning resources that
are currently being developed by LoCloud, and a point of access to the LoCloud Help Desk. The Help Desk is
a tcket system that allows LoCloud content partners to lodge requests for support from our technical
partners on specifc questons about their content or use of LoCloud services.
Three training workshops were delivered during 2014-15 for LoCloud partners to introduce the new
LoCloud services and to ofer support in preparing their content for harvestng. The presentatons were
video-recorded during the workshop at Poznan; the videos demonstratng LoCloud services will be
incorporated into the online training course being developed by PSNC.
Disseminaton
The consortum has contnued to play an actve role in
disseminatng news and informaton about LoCloud.
Statstcs from the project website and social networks
show a steady growth in interest with peaks in actvity
being linked to major events.
During the year partners' have presented the project
and its results at a large number of natonal and
internatonal conferences and events. Highlights were
the project workshop (which took place in Florence as
part of the ICOMOS 2014 general assembly) and the
Europeana Tech conference and the LoCloud
hackathon. The hackathon, which took place at the Google Culture Insttute in Paris, ofered developers a
frst opportunity to experiment with using the LoCloud Services in new applicatons.
Monitoring and evaluaton
The frst LoCloud datasets were provided to Europeana for harvestng and publicaton this year. Throughout
2014-15 the project has been monitoring actvites by partners to prepare their content for aggregaton, and
working with partners to quality assure their metadata before it is submited to Europeana. All of the
services developed by LoCloud were tested during 2014-15. Work is underway to prepare to monitor and
evaluate the project's outcomes during the coming year.
Conclusion
The consortum has achieved the planned objectves for year 2 of the project. The project's aggregaton
infrastructure has been completed and a range of new services made available to content providers. The
content workfow from cultural insttutons to Europeana via LoCloud has been tested. The frst LoCloud
datasets have been aggregated, quality assured, enriched and provided to Europeana where they are now
online at www.europeana.eu. LoCloud has contnued to build a strategic collaboraton with Europeana
Cloud and other key projects, which are critcal to ensuring the future sustainability of LoCloud services and
Europeana itself. In the third year of the project the aggregaton of content provided by LoCloud partners
through the infrastructure and delivery to Europeana will contnue. The LoCloud competton, designed to
promote the use of Europeana for local history and best uses of LoCloud services, will also be launched.
Coordinator: Gunnar Urtegaard, Natonal Archives of Norway
Project manager: Kate Fernie, 2 Culture Associates
Website: htp://www.locloud.eu
Contact: info@locloud.eu