The Europeana Cloud project aims to establish a shared infrastructure for aggregating and sharing cultural heritage metadata and content among various European institutions in a more cost-effective and sustainable way. It involves over 30 partners, including national libraries and aggregators. The project will define principles for engagement, ingest metadata and content, build a technical infrastructure, and investigate potential efficiencies and services for researchers. It is funded through 2016 to develop the cloud platform and ensure long-term sustainability and community engagement.

1. Introduction to Europeana Cloud
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-cloud
#cloud_EU / @europeana_cloud

2. Europeana
AggregatorAggregator
Current situation for metadata aggregation

3. Europeana
The relationship is not reciprocal, it is costly and unsustainable
AggregatorAggregator

4. Europeana
The European LibraryPolish Digital Libraries
Federation
Europeana Cloud project tries to rethink this situation

5. Europeana
The European Library
Cost reduction?
Sub-aggregations
for members ?
Ease of sharing?
Shared storage?
Enriched data
potential?
Polish Digital Libraries Federation

6. Who are the partners?
Europeana
The
European
Library
20 contentproviders
3 aggregators
12 strategic /
technical partners
Polish Digital Libraries
Federation

7. What will they be doing?
Define the principles
of engagement
Ingest metadata (2.4 M
items) and content (5 M
items)
Build a technical
infrastructure
Investigating possible efficiencies
Establishing Long
term consensus
Design a legal
framework
Europeana
The
European
Library
Polish Digital Libraries
Federation

8. But that is not all!

9. We will also investigate how we can build end-user services on
top of this infrastructure
Researchers
In particular for researchers in
humanities and social sciences
Content & Data

10. In scope for the project (Europeana Research):
Europeana Research
Platform
Content & Data
Tools “Portal”
“Annotation”
“API”
“SPARQL”
Services

11. To allow others to build apps and
services on
GLAM
Creative industries

12. Project Details
Start Date – February 2013
End Date – January 2016
Total Project Cost – 4.75m Euros
EU Funding Contributing 3.8m Euros (80%)
Matched Funding 950k (20k)
co-funded by the
CIP-ICT Policy Support Programme
http://ec.europa.eu/ict_psp
CIP-ICT-PSP-2012-6 - Project number 325091
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13. 7 Work Packages
WP1 - Assessing Researcher Needs in the Cloud and Ensuring Community Engagement,
Agiatis Benardou (Digital Curation Unit, Athens)
WP2 - Developing the Infrastructure for Europeana Cloud, Pavel Kats
(Europeana Foundation, The Hague)
WP3 - Exploiting Europeana Cloud with services and tools for researchers, Erik Duval
(University of Leuven, Belgium)
WP4 - Ingestion of Content and Metadata Development, Marian Lefferts
(Consortium for European Research Libraries, The Hague)
WP5 - Sustaining the Europeana Cloud: Legal, Strategic and Economic Issues Julia Fallon
(Europeana Foundation, The Hague)
WP6 - Dissemination and Networking, Martin Moyle (University College London)
WP7 - Project Management, Mary Rowlatt (MDR Partners, UK)
Project Coordination, Alastair Dunning (The European Library, The Hague)

14. 35 Partners
1 Stitching Foundation (Europeana Foundation), Netherlands
2 Ariadne Foundation, Belgium
3 Athena Research and Innovation Centre, Greece
4 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library), Germany
5 Central and East European Online Library (CEOOL), Germany
6 Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL), United Kingdom
7 Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (National Research Council), Italy
8 Debreceni Egyetem (University of Debrecen), Hungary
9 Fundación Dialnet (Dialnet Foundation), Spain
10 Hrvatska Akademija Znanosti I Umjetnosti (Croatian Academy for
Science and Arts), Croatia

15. 35 Partners
11 Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Nationalbibliotek Og Kobenhavns
Universitetsbibliotek, (Royal Library and National Library of Copenhagen
University), Denmark
12 Stichting Nederland Kennisland (Kennisland), Netherlands
13 Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen, KNAW (Royal Dutch
Academy for Science), Netherlands
14 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven), Belgium
15 Stichting LIBER (LIBER Foundation), Netherlands
16 Cinecitta' Luce Spa , Italy
17 MDR Partners, United Kingdom
18 Kansallisarkisto (Finnish National Archives), Finland
19 Llyfrgellgenedlaethol Cymru (National Library of Wales), United Kingdom
20 Narodni Technicka Knihovna (National Technical Library), Czech Republic

16. 35 Partners
21 Stichting OAPEN (OAPEN Foundation), Netherlands
22 Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland (OKF-DE), Germany
23 The Open University, United Kingdom
24 Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Pan (Institute of Bioorganic
Chemistry), Poland
25 Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
26 Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Brabant Universiteit Van Tilburg
(Tilburg University), Netherlands
27 University College London United Kingdom
28 The University Of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
29 Goeteborgs Universitet (Gothenburg University), Sweden
30 Universite Libre De Bruxelles (Free University of Brussels), Belgium

17. 35 Partners
31 Universitaet Bielefeld (University of Bielefeld), Germany
32 University Of Patras, Greece
33 Stichting Vu-Vumc (Free University of Amsterdam), Netherlands
Unfunded Partners:
34 University of Sibiu, Romania
35 DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities)

18. http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-cloud
#cloud_EU / @europeana_cloud
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