Highlights from Europeana Cloud's Second Year

In advance of its yearly review by the European Commission (scheduled for 6th March), Europeana Cloud has recently published its Year 2 Annual Report.

Account Book by University of Edinburgh (CC-BY)

Below we list the key highlights. In the following weeks, we will provide more detail via a series of blog posts. The main points are:

• Key aspects of the technical architecture of Europeana Cloud are up and running. This includes the metadata and content service; the unique identifiers service; the data look-up service; the asynchronous messaging service; the logging service; and the authentication and authorisation service. The storage cloud of Europeana Cloud is also in place.
• The establishment of a long-term business plan featuring the precise value propositions and customer segments of Europeana Cloud, with details of the products and services being created.
• An exhaustive piece of work charting the research potential of the data made available via Europeana.
• Metadata ingestion is ahead of schedule. Nearly 90% of the projected 2.5m metadata items have been ingested.
• Requests for content have proven greater than expected. We will choose 5m content items to ingest from more than 7m content items offered by partners as part of the Content Ingestion Plan.