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 !