IMCW 2013 Conference Presentation on LoCloud by B. Yılmaz, Ö. Külcü, Y. Ünal & T. Çakmak, Hacettepe University, Turkey 4-6 September 2013 Limerick, Ireland.

1. local content in a Europeana cloud
B. Yılmaz, Ö. Külcü, Y. Ünal & T. Çakmak
Department of Information Management
Hacettepe University
{byilmaz, kulcu, yurdagul, tcakmak}@hacettepe.edu.tr

2. •LoCloud Project aims:
•to enhance the Europeana content base by aggregating cultural heritage content,
•complementing collections already accessible through Europeana,
•representing the diversity and richness of Europe's cultural heritage.
Aims

3. •Build on success of Europeana Local and CARARE Best Practice Networks (30% of content in Europeana).
–4 million + new items.
•Make it easier for small/medium institutions to make good quality metadata and content available to Europeana
•Bring together local history and heritage resources which are currently unevenly represented in the Europeana ‘ecosystem’
•More coherent views of content relating to a given locality
Main goals

4. - 32 partners from 28 different countries
European Union Member States represented (excluding Finland, Luxembourg and Malta) plus Iceland, Norway, Serbia and Turkey.
Consortium etc

5. •Scientific coordinator (National Archive, Norway) and a project manager (MDR, United Kingdom)
•Strong group of technical partners, already important contributors to development of Europeana, including AIT, Athena RC, AVINET, IPCHS, NTUA and PSNC.
•National and regional aggregation services or content providers who will act as pilot implementers of the cloud services; coordinate and disseminate at national level.
•Partners with specific expertise in key aspects such as vocabularies.
Consortium etc

6. •Agility
•API
•Reduced cost
•Device and location independence
•Virtualisation
•Reliability
•Scalability and elasticity
•Performance
•Security
•Maintenance
Benefits claimed for cloud computing

7. •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

8. •Metadata editing (possibly collection-wide)
•Preservation services
•Rights management
•Enrichment services
•Spatial
•Thematic
•…
•Digital resources management (creation, cataloguing, etc.)
Enhanced aggregator services

9. •Provide cloud-based software services to enable more discoverable and interoperable content;
–geolocation enrichment tools
–metadata enrichment (NLP – English + Spanish)
–multilingual vocabularies for local history
–historic place-names ‘gazetteer’
–Wikimedia and crowdsourcing
•Cloud-based testlab: content provider involvement
LoCloud: SaaS

11. Workpackage structure
Briefing, action planning in each country; state of the art in relevant cloud infrastructures; content and metadata analysis; requirements analysis
WP 1
Planning, preparation and requirements
Specify, modify, test, implement core infrastructure components: MINT, MoRe, Lightweight digital library – all build on existing work
WP 2
Design and implementation of aggregation infrastructure

12. Workpackages
Collaborative cloud-based testlab, involving partners and users; develop and implement a suite of SaaS: geolocation enrichment; metadata enrichment; multilingual vocabularies; historic place-names; Wikimedia and crowdsourcing
WP 3
Micro services for small and medium institutions
Regional training workshops, video, online course; documentation and help desk; support portal – centre of expertise; service sustainability planning with Europeana
WP 4
Enabling and supporting small and medium institutions

13. Workpackages
Group of inter-related evaluation activities: infrastructure, metadata and content; impact on institutions and end users; Recommendations
WP 5
Evaluation and impact assessment
Website and social media; national and international conferences and events; competition among Europe’s regions; sustainability planning; work with aggregators
WP 6
Dissemination and exploitation
Coordination with Europeana Cloud developments
WP 7
Management and coordination

14. •Move to cloud based architecture
•Scalability, high availability etc
•API through which to access the underlying metadata & data
•Build services
•Allow content providers to create and catalogue their digital resources on the aggregator
•A step toward distributed digital curation?
Future directions

15. As the partner of the LoCloud Project, Team Turkey are participating all 7 workpackages actively.
•Planning, preparation and requirements
•Design and implementation of aggregation infrastructure
•Micro services for small and medium institutions
•Enabling and supporting small and medium institutions
•Evaluation and impact assessment
•Dissemination and exploitation
•Management and coordination
Turkey

16. •Coordination of content provision, dissemination from Turkey and engagement of small and medium-sized institution are among the main tasks of Team Turkey.
•Team Turkey will use previous experiences as content provision to the Europeana and aggregator of Turkey in AccessIT Project

17. •At the end of the Project, Team Turkey will be complete the metadata mapping and content sharing processes of the 820 postcards/photos and 120 maps and plans from VEKAM (Vehbi Koç Ankara Research Center) Archive
Turkey

18. •Hacettepe University is the owner of the activities of Team Turkey in LoCloud Project. As the personal profile, Prof. Dr. Bülent Yılmaz is the coordinator of Team Turkey; Assoc.Prof. Özgür Külcü, Asst Prof. Yurdagül Ünal, Res. Asst. Tolga Çakmak attained as the researchers in the Project.
Turkey

22. local content in a Europeana cloud
B. Yılmaz, Ö. Külcü, Y. Ünal & T. Çakmak
Department of Information Management
Hacettepe University
{byilmaz, kulcu, yurdagul, tcakmak}@hacettepe.edu.tr