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

Europeana The LoCloud Project Involving local cultural institutions Introduction

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

More than digital records under Creative Commons 0 license (free re-use) More than European libraries, museums, archives and galleries 28 EU countries + 7 other 31 languages Europeana: overview

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

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

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

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

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

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

in Europeana

Europeana mission: We transform the world with culture

Access is key

National Heritage Institute, Czech Republic Creates potential for new services

for tourism

for education

And for creativity Europeana Creative Design Challenge

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

Thank you 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.