Europeana Cloud - First Year Review - Overview, Alastair Dunning, Project Coordination Athens Plenary, March 2014

1. First Year Review - Overview
Alastair Dunning, Project Coordinator
Athens Plenary
March 2014

2. Oxyrhynchus
Papyrus No. 20
Fragment of
Homer's The Illiad,
2nd century
Common Era
British Library,
London
Image via
Wikimedia
Commons

3. Metadata record
for Oxyrhynchus
Papyrus No. 20
(numbered 742)
from British
Library, London

4. Metadata record
for Oxyrhynchus
Papyrus No. 20
from University of
Oxford

5. Tool for
transcribing
Oxyrhynchus
Papyrus from
Ancient Lives
project

6. Tool for
measuring
Oxyrhynchus
Papyrus from
Ancient Lives
project

7. Discussion
Forum
Oxyrhynchus
Papyri from
Ancient Lives
project

8. Images
Hi-res TIFF – British
Library
JPEG – University of
Oxford
Full-text
Multiple
transcriptions –
Ancient Lives
Project
Metadata
Version 1 – British
Library
Version 2– University
of Oxford
Version 3 – Ancient
Lives
Unstructured
Commentary
Ancient Lives Project

9. The richness of this
information is created
by many parties, but it
sits in different places,
took many projects to
make happen and still is
not fully connected.

11. Building a new aggregation system.
Metadata currently travels in one direction, towards Europeana.
Audiovisual collections
National Aggregators
Regional
Aggregators
Archives
Thematic collections
Libraries
e.g. Musées
Lausannois
e.g.
Culture
Grid,
Culture.fr
e.g. The
European
Library
e.g. APEX
e.g. EUScreen,
European Film
Gateway
e.g. Judaica Europeana,
Europeana Fashion

12. Building a shared infrastructure.
Metadata can be shared and edited between members

13. Current focus on three aggregators
But we need broader input to make sure this a
sustainable service for Europeana ecosystem

14. Developing the Infrastructure for Europeana
Cloud – WP2
Pavel Kats,
Europeana
Foundation
Agile methodology
used with 10+
developers across
Europe
Defined technical
architecture and
core services for
European Cloud
Report on
available cloud
technologies /
architectures
Prototype cloud
service for
metadata

15. Sustaining the Europeana Cloud: Legal,
Strategic and Economic Issues – WP5
What are the
assumptions
that this
infrastructure
will be created
under?
High Level
Strategic
Requirements
Minimum
Requirements for
the Cloud
Julia Fallon,
Europeana
Foundation

16. Assessing Researcher Needs in the Cloud –
WP1
Related Expert
For a Reports
Which researchers
can Europeana
interact with
What kind of tools do
these users need
Agiatis
Bernadou,
Digital Curation
Unit, Athens
Ongoing work on
Europeana
Content Strategy

17. Exploiting Europeana Cloud with services and
tools for researchers – WP3
Iterative
development
process
building tools for
specific research
communities
specific personas
working in specific
scenarios
tool for early
modern
philosophers
Erik Duval,
University of
Leuven

18. Ingestion of Content and Metadata
Development – WP4
1.7m records due
to be delivered by
Spring 2014
Ingestion of
metadata from
project partners
Initial metadata plan
delivered
Marian Lefferts,
Consortium of
European
Research
Libraries

19. Dissemination and Networking – WP6
Related Cloud
projects
Wide range of
stakeholders
identified in D6.1
Research
Infrastructures
Aggregators, Data
and Content
providers
Martin Moyle,
University
College London

20. Project Management – WP7
Consortium
Agreement
Financial Reporting
Annual Report Aggregators, Data
and Content
providers
Mary Rowlatt
MDR Partners
Geoff Butters,
MDR Partners

21. Much more to come in
the second year !