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How to make your cultural heritage content available on-line?

Marcin WerlaPoznań Supercomputing and Networking Center

Long-term preservationor long-term access?

• Access to digital resources shouldnot be treated as one time activity

– Get funding

– Digitize and describe objects

– Make a website

– Finish the project / end of funding

– Maintain in „Works? Don’t touch it!” mode

Project

Organized set of human activities,aimed on achieving defined result,limited in defined period of time,

with specific beginning and ending,usually done by a team,

using defined amount of resources.

Example: museum digitization project, where the result is to start a website with 50 000 objects,

before the end of 2017.

Service

Activity, based on knowledge, skills and tools,

undertaken by ones,aimed on

delivering specific values/benefits to others.

Example: digitization service – where the created value are digital files

Project vs Service

Organized set of human activities,

aimed on achieving defined result,

limited in defined period of time,

with specific beginning and ending,usually done by a team,

using defined amount of resources.

Activity, based on knowledge, skills and tools,

undertaken by ones,aimed on

delivering specific values/benefits to others.

Starting a digital library vs maintaining a digital library

Achieving defined result vs delivering benefits to others

On-line access to cultural heritage as a service

Who – for whom?

What benefits provides?

What activities undertakes?

What are they based on?

Activity, based on knowledge, skills and tools,

undertaken by ones,aimed on

delivering specific values/benefits to others.

Business model

In basic form it contains information about:

• Customers segments

• Value proposition for customers (segments)

• Relations with customers and access channels to customers

• Sources of income

• Key activities, resources and partners

• Costs structure

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Workshop on how to make cultural heritage available on-line

In cooperation with National Audiovisual Institute, funded by the Ministry of Culture

• 2016/10/26-27, Poznan, PSNC

researchers, students, other libraries, hobbyists, private collectors, teachers, school children, historians, regional history researchers,local citizens,families, museums, archives, media

access to unique resources, access to source materials, access to educational materials, access to archival information, 24/7 access to heritage and knowledge

access to information about the context of collections, trusted source of information, high quality of materials, possibility to search through the text, complex queries

possibility to publish research works

(stable) public national funding, EU funding, local grants, sponsors

digitisation on demand, paid access to highest resolution materials

advertisements, paid access to tools, gadgets, extra services

well designed platform offering quick and automated access, responsive interface, web2.0/3.0 services

periodic thematic meetings, on-line consultations

thematic fairs, conferences, social media, newsletters, church, local and national media, metadata aggregators, scientific press and portals, public transport, Google, Wikipedia

digitization lab staff, IT administrators, digital library coordinator, metadata editors, website administrator, lawyer, graphic designer, PR team,

office, digitization lab with equipment, objects/collections, web portal

digitization, preparation of metadata, publishing on-line, archiving, website maintenance

searching for witnesses of history

promotion, looking for funding

external collection providers, rights owners, other cultural institutions, local organizations, lawyer, internet provider, software developers and designers, media, educational organizations, funding bodies incl. Ministry of Culture, local authorities, Wikipedia, Europeana, national aggregator

salaries, hosting, equipment, promotion, office costs

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Our challenge

• All digital library components generate costs

• In smaller institutions there may be no proper hard IT infrastructure to reuse for a digital library

• Apart from costs - lack of expertiseto cope with IT infrastructure

• How to simplify deploymentand reduce the cost of having a digital library without limiting its value for end users?

Content

Software

HardwareFast

Useable

Interesting

LoCloud Collections

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Storage plan Size limitation Estimated price

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XS 2 GB 2 EUR / month

S 5 GB 4 EUR / month

M 10 GB 8 EUR / month

L 25 GB 16 EUR / month

XL 50 GB 24 EUR / month

No financial investments, costs based on real use of resources

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Compatibility with Europeana

Advanced usage statistics

High availability, scalability, data safety

LoCloud Collections are located in PSNC Data Center,in private cloud environment

SEO

• Some numbers:

– 265 collections created in 36 countries• top countries: Poland, Greece, Norway, Croatia

– 33 collections currently with (potentially) paid storage plan • top countries: Poland, Ireland, France, Norway

• PSNC maintains and develops the service

– Based on feedback from users

– In collaboration with Europeana, under Europeana DSI project(s)

– In collaboration with interested institutions – scope of collaboration is to be discussed• Translations, local promotion, local support, national domains, …

Sustainability?

Thank you and

let’s keep in touch!

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mwerla@man.poznan.pl