THEME [CIP-ICT-PSP.2012.2.1]Grant Agreement • March 18th, 2015
Contract Type FiledMarch 18th, 2015General information Project title 3 Europeana Cloud: Unlocking Europe’s Research via The Cloud Starting date 4 01/02/2013 Duration in months 5 36 Call (part) identifier 6 CIP-ICT-PSP-2012-6 Objective most relevant to your topic 7 CIP-ICT-PSP.2012.2.1:Europeana and creativity Abstract 9 Europeana Cloud is a Best Practice Network, submitted under Objective 2.1.a and 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 close