LoCloud: Support for local communities and cultural tourism, Silvia Alfreider, National Archives of...

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Presentation about LoCloud and how cultural content that is being made available online is being used to support both local communities and cultural tourism. Given by Silvia Alfreider of the National Archives of Norway at the LoCloud workshop at ICOMOS 2014. This presentation describes how cultural content that is made available online can be used in a wide variety of applications. Examples are given of geographically located content used in mobile applications to discover sites both by visitors to an area and by local communities. http://www.locloud.eu

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Support for communities and cultural tourism

Silvia AlfreiderSenior Adviser – National Archives Norway

silalf@arkivverket.no

LoCloud Content

Over 4 million digital resources from small and medium-sized cultural institutions added to Europeana

LoCloud geo-tagging tool

• Geo-tagging is a valid tool to support cultural tourism • LoCloud geo-tagging tool enablies the geo-coding of

cultural objects

Download Kml file

Great potential for Cultural tourism & local communities

Europeana API to re-use Europeana content

•What do we want?•Why Europeana? •Why LoCloud?

•Re-use Europeana content through a Europeana API

What are tourists interested in?

Why this success for apps?

- share moments with friends and family

- combine the physical world with virtual information

- make objects come to life, enrich the real-world with interactive virtual information

- an app can guide tourists through an unfamiliar environments, but it’s more then wayfinding

• http://www.cultureclic.fr/

Examples of travel apps

• Visit London

• vangoyourself.com

• Tired of just looking at paintings?

• Recreate a painting with your friends.

• A different and deep way for visitors to engage with heritage, based on emotion, playfulness and curiosity.

Examples of applicationsVangoyourself

Examples of applicationsVangoyourself

We need paintings with open licences

*sigh*

• Re-use cultural content in the tourism domain

• Examples from Norway

• Knappen

• Rallarvegen

• Prøysenvandring

• Archeology• People• Places• History• Protected areas• Animals• Plants• Art

The future?

The cultural events of today will become

tomorrow’s cultural heritage

Riddu Riđđu Festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Zo6L_8rEE&index=2&list=PL3H0c4cIFHNvKzL9ObtqiuTzWb9gyFShG

Thank yousilalf@arkivverket.no

LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme

The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are the sole responsibility of the

authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of

the European Commission.

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