The LoCloud project aims to add over 4 million digital resources from small and medium-sized cultural institutions to Europeana. It seeks to make it easier for these institutions to provide quality content and increase local history and heritage resources available. This will enable more views of content related to local areas for education, tourism, and creativity. The project is funded by the European Commission and involves cultural organizations across Europe digitizing collections and publishing them online through Europeana to transform the world with culture.

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. Introduction
• Europeana
• The LoCloud Project
• Involving local cultural institutions

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. Europeana: overview
• 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

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. Main goals
• 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

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

14. in Europeana

15. Europeana mission:
We transform the world with culture

16. Access is key

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

18. for tourism

19. for education

20. And for creativity
Europeana Creative Design Challenge

21. Workshop agenda
• Demonstration of LoCloud services
• Demonstration of Locloud Collections
• Geographic location and maps: services for local
cultural institutions
• Apps for cultural tourism
• Conclusions and discussion

22. Thank you
kfernie27@gmail.com
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.