1. Balkan Experience Jasmina Ninkov & Predrag Đukić Belgrade City Library International Congress Digital Heritage 2015, Granada LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme

2. Workshops and other types of dissemination SLO, CRO, SRB Joint workshops MNE (GKR, BGB) BIH (GKR, Jara) + (GKR, BGB) MKD (GKR, Jara) ALB (GKR) Balkan Experience Jasmina Ninkov & Predrag Đukić Belgrade City Library

3. Balkan Experience Jasmina Ninkov & Predrag Đukić Belgrade City Library Place Cetinje, National library of Montenegro "Đura đ Crnojević”, Montenegro Date 15th of April 2015 Co-organizersJelena Đurović and Vjenceslava Ševaljević from National library of Montenegro "Đura đ Crnojević” Presenters Predrag Djukić / BGB, Andreja Silić Švonja /GKR Number of participants18

4. Balkan Experience Jasmina Ninkov & Predrag Đukić Belgrade City Library Place Trebinje, Hotel Leotar, Annual Meeting of Library Association members, Republic of Srpska Date 16th of April 2015 Co-organizersStojka Mjatović from Librarians Association in Republic of Srpska Presenters Predrag Djukić / BGB, Andreja Silić Švonja /GKR Number of participants 29

5. Balkan Experience Jasmina Ninkov & Predrag Đukić Belgrade City Library Place Skopje, National and University Library “Sv. Kliment Ohridski”, Macedonia Date 7th of May 2015 Co-organizersViktoria Kostoska from National and University Library “Sv. Kliment Ohridski” and Ivanka Sokolova from Public Library Brothers Miladinovci in Macedonia Presenters Breda Karun / Zavod Jara, Andreja Silić Švonja / GKR Number of participants26

6. Balkan Experience Jasmina Ninkov & Predrag Đukić Belgrade City Library Place Sarajevo, Faculty of Economics, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Date 26th of May 2015 Co-organizersBiserka Sabljaković from Faculty of Economics Library in Sarajevo and Nadina Grebović-Lendo from BAM Association of Informational Professionals from Libraries, Archives and Museums in Bosnia and Herzegovina Presenters Breda Karun / Zavod Jara, Andreja Silić Švonja / GKR Number of participants18

7. Balkan Experience Jasmina Ninkov & Predrag Đukić Belgrade City Library Place Tirana, Medicine University Library, Albania Date 3rd June 2015 Co-organizersMonika Luarasi from Science Library Polytechnic University of Tirana and Lindita Papadhopulli form Medicie University Library in Tirana Presenters Sara Vukušić / GKR, Andreja Silić Švonja / GKR Number of participants30

8. Results LoCloud dissemination in the Balkans region included 5 workshops attended by 121 participants form libraries, museums and archives. Agenda Generally about project, MINT, MORE, micro-services, preparing digital objects and metadata (LoCloud online courses) and LoCloud Collections Workshop. LoCloud Collection Workshop consisted of presenting Omeka possibilities, registering, creating collection, describing metadata and adding digital objects. Balkan Experience Jasmina Ninkov & Predrag Đukić Belgrade City Library

9. Impressions In general, the LoCloud dissemination in the Balkans region was successful (although, sometimes we had some technical difficulties: bad internet connections, outdated browsers, security, lack of computers…) Balkan Experience Jasmina Ninkov & Predrag Đukić Belgrade City Library

10. Conclusions Sustainability Cost of maintaining LoCloud Collections Good solution for Institutions with no digital collections yet Balkan Experience Jasmina Ninkov & Predrag Đukić Belgrade City Library

11. Future plans in Serbia To continue with dissemination and advocacy To support other culture heritage institution To use LoCloud product and services Balkan Experience Jasmina Ninkov & Predrag Đukić Belgrade City Library

12. Some Examples MORE as aggregating infrastructure for Kamra.si LoCloud Collections in CRO, SRB, BIH… Balkan Experience Jasmina Ninkov & Predrag Đukić Belgrade City Library

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16. Thank you for your attention Any Questions or Suggestions? direktor@bgb.rs predragd@bgb.rs

17. 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. Funding