Support for communities and cultural tourism
Silvia AlfreiderSenior Adviser – National Archives Norway
Europeana Content
LoCloud geo-tagging tool
• Geo-tagging is a valid tool to support cultural tourism • LoCloud geo-tagging tool enablies the geo-coding of
cultural objects
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Great potential for Cultural tourism & local communities
•Why Europeana? •Why LoCloud?•What do we want?
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?Share cultural heritage with all people
Engage people/tourists with local collections
Prepare content for re-use
What are tourists interested in?
Why this success for apps?
- share moments with friends and family- an app can guide tourists through an unfamiliar environments, but
it’s more then wayfinding- combine the physical world with virtual information
• vangoyourself.com
• Tired of just looking at paintings? • Recreate a painting with your friends.
• A different and deep way for visitors to engage with heritage, based on emotion, playfulness and curiosity.
Examples of applicationsVangoyourself
Examples of applicationsVangoyourself
We need paintings with open licences
*sigh*
• Re-use cultural content in the tourism domain
• Examples from Norway
• Knappen • Rallarvegen• Prøysenvandring
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LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme
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