1. local content in a Europeana cloud Kate Fernie, 2Culture Associates, Project Manager LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme

2. Europeana The LoCloud Project Involving local cultural institutions Introduction

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. LoCloud Best practice network funded by the EU under the CIP ICT PSP programme

7. Huge numbers of local museums, libraries, archives and audio visual collections with an enormous amount of interesting content Swedish Heritage Board

8. 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

9. Local institutions Wiltshire Heritage Museum director David Dawson and assistant curator Kerry Nickels

10. Going online Digitisation projects are enabling local institutions to publish content online

12. http://www.locloud.eu

13. in Europeana

15. Europeana mission: We transform the world with culture

16. Access is key

17. National Heritage Institute, Czech Republic Creates potential for new services

18. for tourism

19. for education

20. And for creativity Europeana Creative Design Challenge

21. 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

22. Thank you kfernie27@gmail.com LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme 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.