europeana cloud work package 1: assessing researchers' needs in the cloud
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A presentation given about Work Package 1 of the Europeana Cloud project http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-cloud By Agiatis Bernadou and Alastair Dunning Given at http://dighumlab.dk/news/single-news/artikel/cfp-cultural-heritage-creative-tools-and-archives-workshop/, June 2013TRANSCRIPT
Europeana Cloud: The Project and the Challenges of Assessing Researchers'
Needs in the Cloud and Ensuring Community Engagement
Alastair Dunning (The European Library) & Agiatis Benardou (Digital Curation Unit, ATHENA R.C.)
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-cloud#cloud_EU / @europeana_cloud
Project DetailsStart Date – February 2013
End Date – January 2016Total 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_pspCIP-ICT-PSP-2012-6 - Project number 325091
the author is solely responsible for it and that it does not represent the opinion of the Community and that the Community is not responsible for any use that might be made of information contained therein
7 Work PackagesWP1 - 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)
35 Partners1 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
35 Partners11 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
35 Partners21 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
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)
Europeana
AggregatorAggregator
Current situation for metadata aggregation
Europeana
The relationship is not reciprocal, it is costly and unsustainable
AggregatorAggregator
Europeana
The European Library
Polish Digital Library
Europeana Cloud project tries to rethink this situation
Polish Digital Libraries Federation
Europeana
The European LibraryPolish Digital Libraries Federation
Cost reduction?
Sub-aggregations
for members ?Ease of sharing?
Shared storage?
Enriched data
potential?
Who are the partners?
Europeana
The European Library
20 content providers
3 aggregators
12 strategic /
technical partnersPolish Digital Libraries Federation
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
But that is not all!
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
In scope for the project (Europeana Research):
Europeana Research
Platform
Content & Data
Tools “Portal”
“Annotation”“API”
“SPARQL”
Services
To allow others to build apps and services on
GLAM
Creative industries
Imagined Case Studies – what could a cloud infrastructure do
Storage and Back-up:
Different nodes within the cloud would act as back up for each member. If your node was unavailable there would always be another copy available else where
Imagined Case Studies – what could a cloud infrastructure do
Format Shifting:
All (or some) content in the cloud in a particular format could be migrated to a new standard
Imagined Case Studies – what could a cloud infrastructure do
Access Interfaces (I):
Developers or publishers could work with specific themes of content (e.g. WW2, history of science, fashion) related to all members’ content in the cloud
Imagined Case Studies – what could a cloud infrastructure do
Access Interfaces (II)
Content not yet in public domain could be made available to restricted communities – depends on authentication system adopted.
Imagined Case Studies – what could a cloud infrastructure do
Tools and Services:
Related content from different members could be made available for transcription, annotation, visualisation
WP 1 Objectives
To identify and define the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities that will be supported via the Europeana Cloud To identify and define the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities that will be supported via the Europeana Cloud
To develop an effective research content strategy for Europeana, based on an evidence-based account of usefulness of Europeana and The European Library resources for research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
To develop an effective research content strategy for Europeana, based on an evidence-based account of usefulness of Europeana and The European Library resources for research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
To improve the understanding of digital tools, research processes and content used in the Humanities and Social Sciences, thus informing the development of tools and aggregation of content in the Europeana Cloud
To improve the understanding of digital tools, research processes and content used in the Humanities and Social Sciences, thus informing the development of tools and aggregation of content in the Europeana Cloud
To actively engage the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities in establishing user requirements for the development of Europeana Cloud To actively engage the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities in establishing user requirements for the development of Europeana Cloud
WP1: Tasks Overview
Task Objective
1.1 Humanities and Social Sciences Research Communities Advisory Board
1.2 Developing a Content Strategy for Europeana Research
1.3 Research user requirements for Europeana: digital research practices, tools and content
1.4 Research Community Engagement: Expert Forums
1.5 Research Community User Evaluation
The Research Communities Advisory Board (RCAB)
Prof. Rob Kitchin [Director, National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis]
Prof Karina Van Dalen-Oskam [The Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands]
Dr. Leif Isaksen [Lecturer in Digital Humanities, University of Southampton]
Developing a Content Strategy for Europeana Research - Aims
1. Matching of the existing content in Europeana and The European Library to the Humanities and Social Sciences research communities
2. Informing the ingestion of content fromexisting providers into Europeana during the course of the project
3. Development of a content strategy
Research user requirements for Europeana: digital research practices, tools and content
Desk research: digital research practices and digital tools state of the art
Research Communities web survey
Identification and creation of Humanities and Social Sciences case studies
User requirements analysis
Research Communities web survey[June – September 2013]
http://surveys.dcu.gr/index.php/survey/index/sid/423471/newte
st/Y/lang/en
Research Community Engagement: Expert Forums
Case Studies Expert Forum
Tools and Content for Humanities and Social Sciences Research Expert Forums
Future Recommendation Workshop
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-cloud
#cloud_EU / @europeana_cloud
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