europeanacloud 2014-review-overview-athens
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Europeana Cloud - First Year Review - Overview, Alastair Dunning, Project Coordination Athens Plenary, March 2014TRANSCRIPT
First Year Review - OverviewAlastair Dunning, Project Coordinator
Athens Plenary March 2014
Oxyrhynchus Papyrus No. 20
Fragment of Homer's The Illiad, 2nd century Common Era
British Library, London
Image via Wikimedia Commons
Metadata record for Oxyrhynchus Papyrus No. 20 (numbered 742) from British Library, London
Metadata record for Oxyrhynchus Papyrus No. 20 from University of Oxford
Tool for transcribing Oxyrhynchus Papyrus from Ancient Lives project
Tool for measuring Oxyrhynchus Papyrus from Ancient Lives project
Discussion Forum Oxyrhynchus Papyri from Ancient Lives project
Images
Hi-res TIFF – British LibraryJPEG – University of Oxford
Full-text
Multiple transcriptions – Ancient Lives Project
Metadata
Version 1 – British LibraryVersion 2– University of Oxford Version 3 – Ancient Lives
Unstructured Commentary
Ancient Lives Project
The richness of this information is
created by many parties, but it sits in
different places, took many projects to make happen and
still is not fully connected.
Building a new aggregation system.Metadata currently travels in one direction, towards Europeana.
Audiovisual collections
National Aggregators
Regional Aggregators
Archives
Thematic collections
Libraries
e.g. Musées Lausannois
e.g. Culture Grid,
Culture.fr
e.g. The European Library
e.g. APEX
e.g. EUScreen, European Film Gateway
e.g. Judaica Europeana, Europeana Fashion
Building a shared infrastructure.Metadata can be shared and edited between members
Current focus on three aggregators
But we need broader input to make sure this a sustainable service for Europeana ecosystem
Developing the Infrastructure for Europeana Cloud – WP2
Pavel Kats, Europeana Foundation
Agile methodology used with 10+ developers across Europe
Defined technical architecture and core services for European Cloud
Report on available cloud technologies / architectures
Prototype cloud service for metadata
Sustaining the Europeana Cloud: Legal, Strategic and Economic Issues – WP5
What are the assumptions that this infrastructure will be created under?
High Level Strategic Requirements
Minimum Requirements for the Cloud
Julia Fallon, Europeana Foundation
Assessing Researcher Needs in the Cloud – WP1
Related Expert For a Reports
Which researchers can Europeana interact with
What kind of tools do these users need
Agiatis Bernadou,
Digital Curation Unit, Athens
Ongoing work on Europeana Content Strategy
Exploiting Europeana Cloud with services and tools for researchers – WP3
Iterative development process
building tools for specific research communities
specific personas working in specific scenarios
tool for early modern philosophers
Erik Duval, University of
Leuven
Ingestion of Content and Metadata Development – WP4
1.7m records due to be delivered by Spring 2014
Ingestion of metadata from project partners
Initial metadata plan delivered
Marian Lefferts, Consortium of
European Research Libraries
Dissemination and Networking – WP6
Related Cloud projects
Wide range of stakeholders identified in D6.1
Research Infrastructures
Aggregators, Data and Content providers
Martin Moyle, University
College London
Project Management – WP7
Consortium Agreement
Financial Reporting
Annual Report Aggregators, Data and Content providers
Mary Rowlatt MDR Partners
Geoff Butters, MDR Partners
Much more to come in the second year !