local content in a Europeana cloud for small & medium content providers

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1 local content in a Europeana cloud for small & medium content providers Prof (KR) Christian M. Stracke Coordinator European and International Cooperation University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Germany LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme

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3 LoCLoud?

4 Main goals of LoCloud Build on success of Best Practice Networks CARARE and Europeana Local (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.

5 LoCloud key data 32 institutions from 26 countries: coordinated by Riksarkivet (National Archives of Norway), NO. Strong group of technical partners, already contributors to development of Europeana. National and regional aggregation services or content providers acting as pilot implementers of the cloud services; coordinate & disseminate at national level. Partners with specific expertise in key aspects such as vocabularies & impact assessment. Started: 1st March 2013, ending: 1st March Co-funded by the European Commission (CIP ICT-PSP programme); budget: 4,25 Mio for 36 months

6 Agility API Reduced maintenance costs Device and location independence Virtualisation Reliability Scalability and elasticity Performance Security Maintenance Cloud computing: benefits

7 LoCloud: IaaS 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.

8 LoCloud: SaaS 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.

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

10 Workpackages WP 3 Micro services for small and medium institutions 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 4 Enabling and supporting small and medium institutions Regional training workshops, video, online course; documentation and help desk; support portal centre of expertise; service sustainability planning with Europeana

11 WP 6 WP 5 Dissemination and exploitation Group of inter-related evaluation activities: infrastructure, metadata and content; impact on institutions and end users; Recommendations Workpackages 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 7 Management and coordination Coordination with Europeana Cloud developments

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13 LoCloud and europeana Over 4 million digitised resources from European cultural institutions added to europeana.eu, the European library, museum and archive.

14 LoCloud and local heritage Supporting small and medium sized cultural institutions to make their digitised content accessible through Europeana.

15 LoCloud and the cloud A cloud-based infrastructure for metadata aggregation and harvesting with high efficiency and reduced maintenance costs.

16 LoCloud and many micro-services Geographic location, historical place names, metadata enrichment, multi-lingual vocabularies, crowd-sourcing, Wikimedia, to enhance the user s experience in Europeana.

17 Work progress Review of the state-of-the-art in cloud-based content management and aggregation services relevant to LoCloud s needs and to small and medium sized institutions (D1.1) Survey to evaluate content and metadata to be made available by each content provider partner (D1.3) Defined metadata schemas to be used in LoCloud as intermediaries to EDM (D1.2) Many more deliverables under development

18 Work progress Three content provider workshops organised in Denmark, UK & Spain to discuss implementation of the cloud infrastructure and services for SMS institutions and core user requirements; On-going house-museums survey to identify housemuseums in Europe as content providers to Europeana; LoCloud dissemination strategy in place (D6.1 Initial Dissemination Plan), newsletter, poster, fact-sheet, video; Evaluation plan and impact assessment strategy;

19 Excurse: ISO Metadata NEW International Metadata Standard, approved and published by ISO in 2011: ISO/IEC (MLR) developed by SC36 after 10 years of global discussions Flexible, rule-based and allowing APs and mapping to all other schemes (incl. EDM)!

20 Evaluation & Impact... Evaluation and Impact Assessment: QM and Evaluation not as a task for itself but as value-adding to LoCloud, for all partners & all outcomes Internal as well as external impact assessment by IDEAL & EFI frameworks

21 Evaluation & Impact... Evaluation & Impact Assessment Evaluation Dimensions Evaluation Objects Process Evaluation LoCloud Processes Output Evaluation LoCloud Deliverables Impact related Objectives LoCloud Objectives Socio-economic Impact related Usage LoCloud End Users

22 Evaluation & Impact... Evaluation & Impact Assessment Potential Instruments Ev.? RA? IA? Evaluation Plan & System X (X) (X) Meeting Questionnaire X (X) (X) Deliverable Relationships Diagram (DRD) X X Deliverable Relationship Matrix (DRM) (X) X General Risk Identification Template (GRIT) X (X) General Risk Assessment Questionnaire (GRAQ) X (X) Cognitive Walkthrough X Deliverable Planning Diagram (DPD) (X) X Analysis DRD/DPD vs. DoW (X) X (X) Special Risk Identification Template (SRIT) X (X) Critical Aspects Analysis X (X) Functional Testing X (X) Usability Study X (X) Deliverable Progress Monitoring (DPM) X (X) (X) Special Risk Assessment Questionnaire (SRAQ) X (X) Critical Aspects Monitoring (CAM) X Interim Progress Report X (X) (X) Document Content Review X Quality Reporting Template for Software Development X Overview of Assigned Partners for DFR X Document Final Review (DFR) X SWOT Analysis (X) X (X) Delphi Study (X) X (X) Impact Assessment related Objectives X Impact Assessment related Usage X Interim Evaluation Report X (X) (X) Final Evaluation Report X (X) (X)

23 Evaluation & Impact... Evaluation Framework EFI:

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