local content in a Europeana cloud

Kate Fernie, 2Culture Associates, Project Manager

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

• Europeana• The LoCloud Project• Involving local cultural institutions

Introduction

What is Europeana?

• A huge online database of information about cultural content held by European cultural heritage institutions

• A network of organisations and expertise• A catalyst for new services• Source of exhibitions

http://www.europeana.eu

• More than 32.000.000 digital records under Creative Commons 0 license (free re-use)

• More than 2.300 European libraries, museums, archives and galleries

• 28 EU countries + 7 other• 31 languages

Europeana: overview

• 19m images • 12m texts• 485,000 sounds• 465,000 videos• 16,000 3D objects

Europeana content

• Books, newspapers, journals, letters, diaries, archival papers

• Paintings, maps, drawings, photographs

• Music, spoken word, radio broadcasts

• Film, newsreels, television

LoCloudBest practice network funded by the EU

under the CIP ICT PSP programme

Huge numbers of local museums, libraries, archives and audio visual collections with an enormous amount of interesting content

Swedish Heritage Board

• To add over 4 million digital resources from small and medium-sized cultural institutions to Europeana

• To make it easier for small/medium institutions to make good quality content available Increase the amount of local history and heritage resources available to Europeana users

• Enable more views of content relating to localities for education, tourism, creativity and more

Main goals

Local institutions

Wiltshire Heritage Museum director David Dawson and assistant curator Kerry Nickels

Going online

Digitisation projects are enabling local institutions to publish content online

http://www.locloud.eu

in Europeana

in Europeana

Europeana mission:We transform the world with culture

Access is key

National Heritage Institute, Czech Republic

Creates potential for new services

for tourism

for education

And for creativity

Europeana Creative Design Challenge

• Demonstration of LoCloud services• Demonstration of Locloud Collections• Geographic location and maps: services for local

cultural institutions• Apps for cultural tourism• Conclusions and discussion

Workshop agenda

Thank youkfernie27@gmail.com

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

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authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.