Presentation by: Alastair Dunning, Europeana Cloud, Project Co-ordinator

1. Europeana Business Planning – Facilitate
Alastair Dunning, Europeana Cloud, Project Co-ordinator
27th September 2012, Den Haag

2. Key Aims of Europeana Cloud
A. To provide access, at Europeana, to 2.4m new
metadata records and 5m research–focused
digital items from across European
universities, libraries, data centres and
publishers.
B. To create a cloud-based infrastructure
capable of delivering cost-efficient content
and metadata storage for stakeholders across
Europe
C. To develop a digital platform, named
Europeana Research, to discover and use
European research content. And build services
on top of this

3. Current Europeana Approach to Aggregation

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Aim of the Project:
Europeana Cloud
will be a shared
system for sharing
metadata and
content between
Europeana and its
aggregators.
Content providers
are also
stakeholders

5. The project confronts challenges for content providers,
aggregators, Europeana
Technical
How is Europeana Cloud built ?
Legal
How can it respect national legal and licensing
frameworks
Financial
How can it be sustained
Strategic
How will the Europeana Cloud benefit those who
provide content to Europeana
Requires consensus to work properly

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