locloud: support for local communities and cultural tourism, silvia alfreider, national archives of...
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Presentation about LoCloud and how cultural content that is being made available online is being used to support both local communities and cultural tourism. Given by Silvia Alfreider of the National Archives of Norway at the LoCloud workshop at ICOMOS 2014. This presentation describes how cultural content that is made available online can be used in a wide variety of applications. Examples are given of geographically located content used in mobile applications to discover sites both by visitors to an area and by local communities. http://www.locloud.euTRANSCRIPT
Support for communities and cultural tourism
Silvia AlfreiderSenior Adviser – National Archives Norway
LoCloud Content
Over 4 million digital resources from small and medium-sized cultural institutions added to Europeana
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
Europeana API to re-use Europeana content
•What do we want?•Why Europeana? •Why LoCloud?
•Re-use Europeana content through a Europeana API
What are tourists interested in?
Why this success for apps?
- share moments with friends and family
- combine the physical world with virtual information
- make objects come to life, enrich the real-world with interactive virtual information
- an app can guide tourists through an unfamiliar environments, but it’s more then wayfinding
• http://www.cultureclic.fr/
Examples of travel apps
• Visit London
• 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
• Archeology• People• Places• History• Protected areas• Animals• Plants• Art
The future?
The cultural events of today will become
tomorrow’s cultural heritage
Riddu Riđđu Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Zo6L_8rEE&index=2&list=PL3H0c4cIFHNvKzL9ObtqiuTzWb9gyFShG
Thank [email protected]
LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme
The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are the sole responsibility of the
authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of
the European Commission.
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