The cultural challenge in Umbria: local institutions growing up in the cloud

Giulia ColettiFondazione Ranieri di SorbelloResponsible for digital projects

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Fondazione Barbanera 1762

Fondazione Centro Studi Aldo Capitini

Fondazione Ranieri di Sorbello

Istituto Conestabile Piastrelli

LoCloud partner: Fondazione Ranieri di Sorbello

• FRS will provide to Europeana 8000 items from its house museum and library

• It uses Samira to catalogue online its art collections and Bibliowin and LoCloud Collections its books

• 2450 items are already in Europeana

• 500 items have been sent in September

• 3000 items are ready to be sent

A new local partner:Fondazione Centro Studi Aldo Capitini

Fondazione Centro Studi Aldo CapitiniBorn in Perugia in 1969 and dedicated to Aldo Capitini (1899-1968), a famous italian philosopher, an exponent of the non violence movement in Italy.It manages Capitini personal archive, a library, and coordinates meetings and cultural events. It is located in Biblioteca San Matteo degli Armeni, Perugia.The total amount of is contents is about 8000 documents.

It will provide to LoCloud a selected material from AC personal archive:• 600 photographs• 200 notes, letters, booklets• 100 inscriptions inside AC books200 items already sent to Europeana

A new local partner:Istituto Conestabile Piastrelli

Istituto Conestabile Piastrelli

A cultural institution founded in Perugia in 1955 by don Luigi Piastrelli (1883-1975), a local priest inspired by social ideals. It promotes cultural and scientific events and manages a library, named after Giuseppe Toniolo, containing about 10.000 books.

It will provide about 700 items to LoCloud In particular:• 130 political flyers coming from 1950’s• About 500 various documents (photographs,

notes etc.)130 items already sent to Europeana

A new local partner:Fondazione Barbanera 1762

Fondazione Barbanera 1762

Founded in 2002 in Spello (Pg) by the publisher Feliciano Campi. It promotes cultural activities to appraise the traditional publishing of almanacs.It preserves an important archive recreating the history of the Almanacco Barbanera since the beginning of its press work, in 1762.A selection of Barbanera ancient almanacs is in the final list for the publication in the Memory of the world register of Unesco.

It manages a catalogue online and will provide about 700 items to LoCloud from the ancient almanac collection.

Local partners in the cloud

• Fondazione Capitini and Istituto Conestabile Piastrelli use LoCloud Collections, S size version (up to 500MB). Fondazione Barbanera has got its own catalogue online and uses MINT to map metadata and publish them in MORe

• They all signed DEA and MoU and will provide to Europeana about 2700 digital objects, 2000 of them under Public domain.

• FRS supports them with training materials and courses from LoCloud portal

Thank you! giulia.coletti@gmail.com

promoter@fondazioneranieri.org

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