Local Content in the Europeana Cloud Ole Myhre Hansen, The National Archives of Norway LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme LoCloud Conference: Sharing Cultural Heritage Online with LoCloud services Amersfoort, 5 th February, 2016

Best practice network funded by the EU under the CIP ICT PSP programme 1 st March 2013 to 29 th February partners in 26 countries Scientific coordinator: National Archives, Norway Project management: 2Culture Associates, UK Strong group of technical partners National and regional aggregation services, and individual content providers

Dear Partners, My very best regards to all the LoCloud partners. It was a great pleasure to work with the skilled and experienced partners of the LoCloud project. I am looking forward to see the final results from the project. I also hope that the good results from this project can be developed further in different ways and be an important component in the Europeana infrastructure. I find that the LoCLoud project in a very interesting way points out the direction for future infrastructure for cultural heritage institutions. Also, my very best regards to Marcel and to Kate. It was a great pleasure to work with them. I will also take this opportunity to thank Silvia, Joachim and Ole for their good work. Gunnar Urtegaard

Our partners work with large numbers of local museums, libraries, archives and independent collections with an enormous amount of interesting content which is increasingly available online. Ishockey - IF Vesta, Uppsala 1953 Publisher: UpplandsmuseetUpplandsmuseet Network Allegorie der Skulptur Klimt, Gustav, 1889 MAK Letter, undated, to Edouard Colonne from Edvard Grieg Bergen Public Library

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 project goals

Project activities Supporting cultural institutions in making their content available to Europeana Creating technical solutions suitable for smaller institutions Exploring the potential of cloud-computing technologies Creating metadata enrichment services Providing support, guidance and training Skaters CC-BY-NC Javni Zavod Republike Slovenije za Varstvo Kulturne Dediscine Amersfoort; 2001 Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie

Production and conveying

Where? Piper's Crag, West Yorkshire. © Carved Stone Investigations: Rombalds Moor (CSIRM) What? Who?

Cloud-based micro-services for metadata enrichment and capture: Where – Geo-location – Historic Place Names service – Geo-coding application What – Vocabulary service Vocabulary matching service Background linking service Enriching records

Core infrastructure to aggregate the metadata from our partners and provide to Europeana: MINT o Metadata mapping and ingestion MORe aggregator framework o Metadata harvesting, validation and enrichment o User-friendly interface for data providers Aggregator

Support

LoCloud support portal includes – user and technical documentation – eLearning materials – Question-and-Answer service – Access to a ticket desk system – Videos!

LoCloud Ecosystem

Journey’s end or new beginnings? LoCloud has developed services and aggregation infrastructure in the cloud for local cultural institutions to publish their content online and to supply it to Europeana Over to our Europeana and then the partners Cluj in the second half of the 20th century, Public Domain