Presentation given by Ole Myhre Hansen National Archives of Norway, LoCloud coordinator LoCloud Conference Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services Amersfoort, Netherlands 5 February 2016

1. 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, 5th February, 2016

2. • Best practice network funded by the EU under the CIP ICT
PSP programme
• 1st March 2013 to 29th February 2016
• 33 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
http://www.locloud.eu

3. 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

4. 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: Upplandsmuseet
Network
Allegorie der Skulptur
Klimt, Gustav, 1889
MAK
Letter, undated, to Edouard Colonne
from Edvard Grieg
Bergen Public Library

5. • 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

6. 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

7. Production and conveying

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

9. http://support.locloud.eu/
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

10. 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
http://support.locloud.eu/

11. Support

12. • LoCloud support portal includes
– user and technical documentation
– eLearning materials
– Question-and-Answer service
– Access to a ticket desk system
– Videos!
http://support.locloud.eu

13. LoCloud Ecosystem

14. 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