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