a house museum in the cloud: the experience of fondazione ranieri di sorbello in locloud

A house museum in the cloud: the experience of Fondazione Ranieri di Sorbello in LoCloud

Giulia ColettiFondazione Ranieri di SorbelloResponsible for digital projects

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

House Museum Palazzo Sorbello

LoCloud partner: Fondazione Ranieri di Sorbello

• FRS provided Europeana 7500 items from its house museum and library

• The art collections are available online in Samira Catalogo Umbria Cultura

• The bibliographic collections in Bibliowin and LoCloud Collections

• Thanks to dissemination activities FRS has found three new local partners:

1. Fondazione Centro Studi Aldo Capitini2. Istituto Conestabile Piastrelli3. Fondazione Barbanera 1762• They provided 4600 items to Europeana

3 years in the cloud

1st year • Preparing digital collections• Start cataloguing online content in the portal Samira• Testing MINT and MORe• Publication of an article on Palazzo Sorbello in LoCloud Newsletter

(Issue 1 – August 2015)• First dissemitation activities (surveys online submitted to other house

museums, LoCloud presentations at national/regional cultural events

2nd year • Publication of the first FRS dataset in Europeana• An important step: Clearing IPR of our books• Start using LoCloud Collections for bibliographic contents• Exploring the functionalities of MINT and MORe• Dissemination events all over Umbria

3rd year • Regular publication of packages in MORe for monthly harvesting by Europeana

• Publication of an article on the FRS photographic collection in LoCloud Newsletter (Issue 5 - Sept. 2015)

• Dissemination goals: welcome to three new local partners!• Supporting new local partners in making available online• FRS total amount of content published in Europeana

3500 books

1400 prints

460 textiles

700 porcelain objects

68 medals

43 frames

802 photographs

175 drawings

260 games

122 paintings

And the local partners…

Fondazione Barbanera 1762: 3586 items

Fondazione Centro Studi Aldo Capitini: 860 items

Istituto Conestabile Piastrelli: 123 items

Local partners in the cloud

• Fondazione Capitini and Istituto Conestabile Piastrelli use LoCloud Collections, Small size (up to 500MB).

• Fondazione Barbanera has got its own catalogue online and used MINT to map metadata and publish them in MORe

• They provided to Europeana about 4500 digital objects, 1000 of them under Public domain licence.

• FRS supported them with training materials and courses from LoCloud portal.

Thank you! giulia.coletti@gmail.com

promoter@fondazioneranieri.org

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