ABSTRACT
Europeana Cloud was a Best Practice Network coordinated by the Europeana Foundation, designed to establish a cloud-based system for Europeana and its aggregators. It provided new content, new metadata, a new linked storage system, new tools and services for researchers and a new platform, Europeana Research. The Europeana Cloud Web Survey was built on, and ran in parallel to, related surveys by European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) and DARIAH-EU, and the Survey greatly benefited from both of them. Three disciplines, History, Sociology and Education, were selected as they were likely to work with material from, or similar to material available through Europeana, that is, cultural heritage material of the four major Europeana content types. In order to capture the multifaceted nature of how digital tools and services are employed in research, the uses of innovative tools were studied by integrating data from different sources. Observations of the tool in function were made by using the documentation of the tool.
