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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Darius Victory - 500BC
(Prof. Zolfaghari, Iran)
The Documentation of the Past
Long Term of Data Validation
What does this means for the future?
No WW standards for the digitalization, modeling,
archiving, harvesting and re‐use of CH content!
One of the largest investments in the world:
Cultural Heritage
According to FBI / Interpol:
A total reward of 420 M Euro is still being offered for
information leading to the return of CH items
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What does this means at the
present?
Looting and theft of cultural property is the 3rd
worldwide criminal industry often associated with money
laundering and terrorist activities!
http://www.fbi.gov/ 2013
“War is good for us. We buy antiquities
cheap, and then sell weapons expensively.”
Abu Khalid, smuggler
http://world.time.com/2012/09/12/syrias-looted-past-how-
ancient-artifacts-are-being-traded-for-
guns/#ixzz26HxWHV1T
The reconstruction of the
Cathedral of Dresdner 1992‐4
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Thanks to the Bildportal der Kunstmuseen, Berlin (bpk-images.de)
Why do we need the e‐Documentation?
Why do we need the e‐Documentation?
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The RisksThe Risks
National Museum of IRAQ in 2003
Deputy curator Mohsen Hassan
…The National Museum of Iraq has
been almost completely pillaged.
Over 170,000 artifacts have been
stolen or destroyed from the
museum, which once boasted an
irreplaceable collection of artifacts
from Mesopotamia dating back as
far as 7,000 years…
(New York Times 13th of April 2003)
Mali ‐Timbuktu
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Europeana
The EU Digital
Library
It is the common access point to the different kind of
collections of European libraries, archives and museums
from all around Europe. The Library has to provide
direct online access in a Multilingual and Multimedia
Form.
(The Archive of all the EU Digital Libraries/Archives…)
An open access European digital library for all
researchers, professionals, students and the
public…
Since 2012 Europeana is harvesting the first 3D objects
Digital Libraries
• EU Digital Library ‐ Europeana (EU)
• World Digital Library (USA)
• Memory of the World (UNESCO)
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Intangible Cultural Heritage
• What is it?
• Who set the definition?
• Whom ever it affects?
• Why to document it digitally?
• Why to preserve it?
• How to re‐use the content? and
• Who are the end users?
What is it?
Who set the definition?
• According to UNESCO:
ICH are oral traditions, performing arts, social practices,
rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices
concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge
and skills to produce traditional crafts.
ICH is:
• Traditional, contemporary and living at the same time
• Inclusive
• Representative
• Community‐based
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In ancient times, the library of Alexandria
was said to contain up to 70% of all
human knowledge. The challenge for the
digital age is to do even better than that –
and make the data/results last longer…
A Library…and the Challenge
Advantages
• No physical boundary.
• Round the clock availability
• Multiple access.
• Information retrieval. The user is able to use any
search term (word, phrase, title, name, subject) to
search the entire collection(s).
• Preservation of Data.
• Storage Space.
• Added value (Resolution, Improvement of quality,
etc)
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Project Partners
(Academia, Industry, Research) = Triangle of knowledge
• 23 Partners (Academia, Industry, Research and CH
Institutions)
• 4 Years Project with 3.72 M Euro budget
• To train 20 high caliber PhD‐Fellows in the area of Digital
Heritage
• Research Training on Tangible and Intangible CH
• The calls for the positions are available: www.itn‐dch.eu
FP7‐PEOPLE 2013 ITN‐DCH
This worldwide unique project aims for the first time to analyse,
design, research, develop and validate an innovative framework,
integrating the latest advances in different scientific disciplines that
cover the whole lifecycle (chain) of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH)
research (such as data acquisition/ capturing, data pre (post)‐
processing, modelling, semantics and symbolic representation,
metadata description (including material and
composition/construction documentation), repository and
archiving, visualization and media production through
mixed/augmented enabled technologies, personalized and
interactive multimedia interfaces) for a cost–effective preservation,
documentation, protection and presentation of cultural heritage.
Mission of ITN‐DCH
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• Build on success of Europeana Local and CARARE
Best Practice Networks (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
Historical perspective
1. Co‐funded under the CIP ICT‐PSP programme of the European
Commission
2. Scientific coordinator: National Archives, Norway; project
management: MDR Partners, UK
3. Strong group of technical partners, already contributors to
development of Europeana.
4. National and regional aggregation services or content providers
acting as pilot implementers of the cloud services; coordinate and
disseminate at national level.
5. Partners with specific expertise in key aspects such as
vocabularies.
• 32 institutions from 26 countries.
• Start date: 1 March 2013
• Duration: 30 months.
LoCloud key data
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• Agility, Redundancy
• Reduced maintenance costs
• Device and location independence
• Virtualisation
• Reliability
• Scalability and elasticity
• Performance
• Security
• Maintenance
Cloud computing: benefits
• 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
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• 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
Workpackages
Briefing, action planning in each country; state
of the art in relevant cloud infrastructures;
content and metadata analysis; requirements
analysis
Briefing, action planning in each country; state
of the art in relevant cloud infrastructures;
content and metadata analysis; requirements
analysis
WP 1WP 1
Planning, preparation and requirements Planning, preparation and requirements
Specify, modify, test, implement core infrastructure components:
MINT, MoRe, Lightweight digital library – all build on existing work
Specify, modify, test, implement core infrastructure components:
MINT, MoRe, Lightweight digital library – all build on existing work
WP 2WP 2
Design and implementation of aggregation Design and implementation of aggregation infrastructure
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H2020
The Multiannual Financial Framework 2014‐2020:
European Council conclusions, 8 February 2013
Education, Youth, Sport
Connecting Europe Facility
Key challenge: stabilise the financial and economic system while taking measures to
create economic opportunities
1. Smart & inclusive growth (€451 billion)
2. Sustainable growth, natural resources (€373 billion)
3. Security and citizenship (€16 billion)
4. Global Europe (€58 billion)
5. Administration (€61.6 billion)
(figures are given in constant prices)
Education,
Youth, Sport
Connecting
Europe
Cohesion
Competitive
Business
SMEs
HORIZON 2020
TOTAL
€960 billion
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• More strategic
• Two year work programmes
(2014‐2015: > € 15 billion)
• Less prescriptive calls (64 calls in 2014)
Broader and fewer topics
First call deadlines as from March 2014
New approach to work programmes
and calls
Societal Challenges (29.7 billions)
Excellent Science (24,4 billions)
Industrial Leadership (17 billions)
Horizon 2020: Three major priorities
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Work Programme 2014 – Funding for calls
Societal Challenges Pillar:~ € 2.8 billion
Health, demographic change and wellbeing 2 calls € 600 million
Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine and
Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy
3 calls € 300 million
Secure, clean and efficient energy 4 calls € 600 million
Smart, green and integrated transport 3 calls € 540 million
Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw
materials
3 calls € 300 million
Europe in a changing world – inclusive, innovative and reflective
societies
5 calls € 112 million
Secure Societies 4 calls € 200 million
In addition
Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation 3 calls € 50 million
Science with and for Society 4 calls € 45 million
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Work Programme 2014 – Funding for calls
Excellent Science Pillar:~ € 3 billion
European Research Council 4 calls € 1 662 million
Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions 6 calls € 800 million
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) 4 calls € 200 million
European Research Infrastructures
(including e-Infrastructures)
4 calls € 277 million
Work Programme 2014 – Funding for calls
Industrial Leadership Pillar:~ € 1.4 billion
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) 2 calls € 700 million
Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and
Production
5 calls € 500 million
Space 5 calls € 128 million
Access to Risk Finance 2 calls € 5 million
Innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises
(Does not include €3 billion for SME instrument or Eurostars)
1 call € 10 million
In addition € 300 million for Financial Instruments (not through calls)
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Personalising health and care (€ 549 million)
Blue growth: unlocking the potential of seas and oceans
(€ 100 million)
Overcoming the crisis: new ideas and strategies to overcome the
crisis in Europe (€ 35 million)
Some examples:
First Horizon 2020 calls:
12 focus areas
• 20% of budget from societal challenges and LEITs
• New SME instrument: > € 500 million in 2014‐2015
• Support measures under 'Innovation in SMEs'
• Access to risk finance
• Participation with Member States (Public‐Public)
Eurostars joint programme
Strong focus on SMEs
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• Social Sciences and Humanities (over € 400 million)
>200 topics (at least 35% of the total topics in the Work Programme)
Budget over € 400 million
Topics ‘flagged’ by the system designed for searching the Work Programme
In addition
ERC (around 17% of budget for SSH)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Gender
Explicitly integrated in all the sections of the Work Programme
Specific call under Science with and for Society (€ 9.5 million)
Topics are flagged to ease access for applicants
Climate Change
~35% of the budget for activities addressing climate change
Climate topics are of particular importance in some of the focus areas of the Work Programme
International cooperation
Principle of general openness: the programme will remain the most open funding programme in the
world
Open to the association of: enlargement countries / EFTA / European Neighbourhood (and others
associated to FP7)
Targeted actions to be implemented taking a strategic approach to international cooperation
Cross‐cutting issues across the Work Programmes
• And additional contractual Public‐Private
Partnerships
In addition
• €22 billion Innovation Investment Package
proposed by Commission (July 2013)
• Joint programmes
(with Member States, under Article 185)
• Joint Technology Initiatives
(with industry under Article 187)
Partnerships with industry and
Member States
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1. A single set of rules for all funding under Horizon 2020
Fewer, more flexible, funding instruments
2. Simpler reimbursement: 1 project = 1 funding rate
100% of the total eligible costs (70% for innovation actions)
Non‐profit legal entities can also receive 100% in innovation actions
Single flat rate for indirect costs (25% of eligible costs)
3. Faster time to grant
Within 8 months of call deadline
Major Simplification for
the benefit of applicants
• 4. Fewer, better targeted controls and audits
• 5. Coherent implementation
Through dedicated agencies
Single IT system
• 6. Simplification in grant agreements
Major Simplification for
the benefit of applicants
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Country profile - Cyprus
H2020
Societal Challenge 6 and 7
Reflective Societies
Cultural Heritage and European
Identities
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Societal Challenge 6
• The objective is to develop new technologies to
enhance the analysis of cultural resources to
improve our understanding of how European
identity can be traced, constructed or debated
and to use those resources to foster innovation
across sectors.
• Research and Innovation should be driven by
Social Sciences, Humanities and Cultural Heritage
Communities in collaboration with ICT sector.
Innovation ecosystems of digital cultural assets
• CHALLENGE: showcase how digital cultural
resources can promote creativity and generate
innovation in research, lead to richer interpretations
of the past, bring new perspectives to questions of
identity and culture, and generate societal and
economic benefits…
• …through the development of new environments,
applications, tools, and services for digital cultural
resources in scientific collections, archives, museums,
libraries and cultural heritage sites.
(Innovation Action - 70% funding, budget 11 MEUR – 2015 call)
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Digitization of Cultural Heritage
to boost innovation
http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/digitisation-heritage
Ευχαριστώ
marinos.ioannides@cut.ac.cy
Tel. 25‐002020