
E-Cloud
Europeana Cloud
Completed
R&D Project - European
- Contact person: Costis Dallas
- Start date: 01-02-2013
- Duration: 36 months
- Programme: FP7 CIP- Best Practice Network
- IMSI funding: 152 KEuros
- Project webpage: http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/home
- Partners: Ariadne Foundation, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Central and East European Online Library, Consortium of European Research Libraries, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Debreceni Egyetem, Fundación Dialnet, Hrvatska Akademija Znanosti I Umjetnosti, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Nationalbibliotek Og Kobenhavns Universitetsbibliotek, Stichting Nederland Kennisland , Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , Stichting LIBER , Cinecitta' Luce Spa, MDR Partners, Kansallisarkisto, Llyfrgellgenedlaethol Cymru, Narodni Technicka Knihovna, Stichting OAPEN, Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland, The Open University, Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Pan, Trinity College Dublin, Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Brabant Universiteit Van Tilburg, University College London, The University Of Edinburgh, Goeteborgs Universitet, Universite Libre De Bruxelles, Universitaet Bielefeld, University Of Patras, Stichting Vu-Vumc
Europeana Cloud is a Best Practice Network coordinated by the Europeana Foundation, designed to establish a cloud-based system for Europeana and its aggregators. Europeana Cloud will provide new content, new metadata, a new linked storage system, new tools and services for researchers and a new platform: Europeana Research. Content providers and aggregators, across the European information landscape, urgently need a cheaper, more sustainable infrastructure that is capable of storing both metadata and content. Researchers require a digital space where they can undertake innovative exploration and analysis of Europe\'s digitised content. Europeana needs to get closer to the target of 30 million items by 2015. Europeana Cloud meets these needs.