Common use of Long term viability Clause in Contracts

Long term viability. The long term viability of the Linked Heritage project depends on the anticipated outgoings and income of the project following its completion. The anticipated costs in the future for the project can be categorised as • Maintaining the network of best practice itself • technical support and training for users of Linked Heritage technologies • provision of access to technologies online • maintenance of persistent ID management system Each of these is addressed here. network and to maintain the network website and mailing lists – the Linked Heritage coordinator is prepared to commit to the small ongoing costs for this purpose.10 Linked Heritage will make all its technology available both to Europeana and to the broader open source community. Those elements of Linked Heritage technology which are adopted into new versions of Europeana will be supported by the Europeana tech support team, in that they will be part of Europeana. The provision of support for other elements will be made available on a commercial basis by the Linked Heritage technical partners (led by NTUA). Thus, technical support represents both a cost base and a potential revenue stream into the future. Access to technologies online: the tools and technologies developed by Linked Heritage will be made available as a collection of online facilities, accessible both via a human user interface and an application programming interface/web services interface. This dual approach simplifies the integration of Linked Heritage technologies into Europeana (and potentially other services) and also reflects the view of “Europeana as an API” which is the technical viewpoint of Europeana within the Europeana Labs team11. Again, those elements of Linked Heritage which are absorbed into Europeana will be made available via Europeana’s own technology platform, but a requirement may exist to maintain online access to specific Linked Heritage tools based on the best practice findings of the network. The Linked Heritage consortium is committed to providing online access to all running online tools from the end of the project for a period of five years, with the option to renew this commitment if demand for the technologies persists. The “home” server for these technologies will be hosted by the National Technical University of Athens; other “mirrors” may be hosted by other partners as appropriate. There will be no charge to users for access to these technologies; the (minimal) ongoing cost of hosting them will be borne by the project partners as part of their routine activities. 10 Several Linked Heritage consortium members are long-term participants in the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ network, which operates ?W?K?U?R?X?J?K? ?Y?L?U?W?X?D?O? ?P?H?H?W?L?Q?J?V? ? ?³?S?L?J?J?\?E?D?F? continues to add value to the culturlaheritage sector in Europe, and to act as a vehicle for forming new project concepts and teams, including ATHENA and Linked Heritage. See ▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇.

Long term viability. The long term viability of the Linked Heritage project depends on the anticipated outgoings and income of the project following its completion. The anticipated costs in the future for the project can be categorised as •  Maintaining the network of best practice itself •  technical support and training for users of Linked Heritage technologies •  provision of access to technologies online •  maintenance of persistent ID management system Each of these is addressed here. network and to maintain the network website and mailing lists – the Linked Heritage coordinator is prepared to commit to the small ongoing costs for this purpose.10 Linked Heritage will make all its technology available both to Europeana and to the broader open source community. Those elements of Linked Heritage technology which are adopted into new versions of Europeana will be supported by the Europeana tech support team, in that they will be part of Europeana. The provision of support for other elements will be made available on a commercial basis by the Linked Heritage technical partners (led by NTUA). Thus, technical support represents both a cost base and a potential revenue stream into the future. Access to technologies online: the tools and technologies developed by Linked Heritage will be made available as a collection of online facilities, accessible both via a human user interface and an application programming interface/web services interface. This dual approach simplifies the integration of Linked Heritage technologies into Europeana (and potentially other services) and also reflects the view of “Europeana as an API” which is the technical viewpoint of Europeana within the Europeana Labs team11. Again, those elements of Linked Heritage which are absorbed into Europeana will be made available via Europeana’s own technology platform, but a requirement may exist to maintain online access to specific Linked Heritage tools based on the best practice findings of the network. The Linked Heritage consortium is committed to providing online access to all running online tools from the end of the project for a period of five years, with the option to renew this commitment if demand for the technologies persists. The “home” server for these technologies will be hosted by the National Technical University of Athens; other “mirrors” may be hosted by other partners as appropriate. There will be no charge to users for access to these technologies; the (minimal) ongoing cost of hosting them will be borne by the project partners as part of their routine activities. 10 Several Linked Heritage consortium members are long-term participants in the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ network, which operates ?W?K?U?R?X?J?K? ?Y?L?U?W?X?D?O? ?P?H?H?W?L?Q?J?V? ? ?³?S?L?J?J?\?E?D?F? through virtual meetings, “piggyback” meetings at other events, and day to day professional contacts. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ continues to add value to the culturlaheritage cultural heritage sector in Europe, and to act as a vehicle for forming new project concepts and teams, including ATHENA and Linked Heritage. See ▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇. 11 See, for example, Concordia et al‟s IFLA presentation at ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/files/hq/papers/ifla75/193-concordia- en.pdf committed to maintaining local PID systems for a period of five years (with the option to extend it if necessary). In addition, a “backup” PID server will be maintained by the NTUA, which will generate and allocate nationality-neutral PIDs, to deal with the (unlikely) event that national PID server(s) become unavailable. No revenue is anticipated from the PID system. However, the cost of providing the system, once it has been established using Linked Heritage funding, is minimal, and fits well with the parallel requirements to offer aggregation and related services to Europeana into the future.