1. cloudy culture cloud-like services to improve the preservation of digital cultural heritage Lee Hibberd National Library of Scotland L.Hibberd@NLS.UK

2. current challenges “The National Library of Scotland will collect, preserve and make available a range of materials that capture Scotland’s memory and contribution to world knowledge” Preserving Scotland’s digital culture Need to cheaply store a 3 rd copy of data More data same amount of staff Computational power and read/write speed for preservation actions. e.g. changing image format, health checks Lack of case studies of cloud use does not make decisions clearer

3. why EUDAT? Ideal services, storage capacity and computational power Test the potential of the cloud for free We will keep a 3 rd copy of data with health checks (a milestone for the Library!) Exchange knowledge with EPCC – learn new tricks and tools

4. future impact Findings freely and openly published Interest to other cultural and memory institutions Cuts across domains - digital archivists, curators and those involved in digital preservation Tools developed and shared Can EUDAT assist in the preservation of European Digital Cultural Heritage? “The key to success is to use existing e-Infrastructures for research and academia..which will make digital cultural heritage accessible and usable long term” (2014 Digital Cultural Heritage Roadmap for Preservation, Antonella Fresa)