Increasing Visibility of Cultural Heritage Objects: A Case of Turkish Content within the scope of

LoCloud ProjectBülent Yılmaz, Özgür Külcü, Tolga Çakmak

Hacettepe University Department of Information Management

5th February 2016Amersfoort, Netherlands

The team has:

•Coordinated dissemination in Turkey and engagement with small and medium-sized institutions

•Built on previous experiences from the AccessIT project of providing content to Europeana

•Supported the Koç University VEKAM in providing its collection of 1138 postcards/photos, maps and plans

Team Turkey!

Other activities

•Metadata mapping, working with MINT, MoRE and LoCloud Collections

•Training 3 members of Team Turkey.

•Distance Education on LoCloud Tools and Services14 December 2015 – 14 January 201679 participants from archives, libraries, museums and schools in Turkey

Item Pageviews from Vekam ContentDM

  Jan. Feb. March April May June July

Item Pageviews VEKAM LoCloud 649 987 1.040 941 1.363 1.144 1.688

General Appearance of Turkish Content

Most viewed LoCloud Turkish colleciton in Euroepana in December 2015

Example of an item from the Turkish collection in Europeana

LoCloud Turkish collection pageview in Europeana

From Turkey total content is 50.000. 2% of the content is coming over the LoCloud

Project.

LoCloud Tools and Services Training in Hacettepe University

• Hacettepe University has been completed a training programme that 79 archivists, librarian and students participated in.

• As part of the training program a survey questionnaire was conducted to evaluate expectations for further assessments and publications.

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Training Program

Results

• LoCloud added new features to help more people and organizastion in Turkey for sharing their content.

• Cloud computing services, metadata harvesting and mapping, publishing the content on Europeana.

• More than 70 participants trained in MINT, MoRE, LoCloud collections and Europeana.

• At least 1.000 people heard for the first time in conferences about sharing cultural heritage, microservices, Europeana, aim and trends.

Expectations

• Multinational studies have to continue on content sharing, developing technological services and raising awareness.

• Team Turkey open for new collaborations.

“Peace at home peace in the World” Atatürk

Thanks!Bülent Yılmaz, Özgür Külcü, Tolga Çakmak

Hacettepe University Department of Information Management (iSchool)

5th February 2016Amersfoort, Netherlands