Sharing Local Cultural Heritage Online with LoCloudThis workshop will share the results of the LoCloud project, and stimulate discussion and collaboration between curators, experts and stakeholders in digital libraries, cultural heritage, tourism and local communities. It will also showcase work in supporting small and medium sized cultural institutions in making their digitised collections discoverable online, via portals such as Europeana and other applications. The workshop will highlight:
- Work with small and medium sized institutions to make their content discoverable within Europeana
- Cloud-based computing services which are helping to put local heritage content online and make it more searchable and interoperable
- Development of a variety of specialised microservices, including geographic location and map based services for local heritage
- Support for communities and cultural tourism, by enabling local heritage to be included in mobile and other applications
Local and regional cultural institutions (museums, libraries, archives and heritage organizations) hold unique collections about the heritage and identity of local communities. These collections range from descriptions of local archaeological monuments, historic buildings, maps, images, local history archives, museum archives and documents relating to the crafts, industries and social history of local communities. Digitisation of collections is creating positive assets for supporting public interest, education, research, local conservation management and cultural tourism, but work remains to be done to help make the collections held by smaller institutions more widely available.
Europeana (
www.europeana.eu) is an online portal that provides access to millions of items of digitised material from European museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. Projects such as Europeana Local (
www.europeanalocal.eu) and CARARE (
www.carare.eu) have worked with local heritage institutions to help to establish ‘pipelines’ to enable them to make their collections available to Europeana’s growing user base. The LoCloud Best Practice Network (
www.locloud.eu) has continued this effort, aiming to explore the potential of cloud-based computing and technical advances to develop services that are specifically designed to support local cultural institutions in making their digital content available online.
Introduction
- 10:00 – 10:15 LoCloud: Local content in the Europeana Cloud (Kate Fernie)
Technology Case Study
- 10:15 – 10:30 Geolocation LoGeo API tool (Franc Zakrajsek)
National and Regional Case Studies
- 10:30 – 10:45 Magic lantern slides and 3D PDFs: Working with diverse content providers (Louise Kennedy)
- 10:45 – 11:00 Romanian digital collections in Europeana (Sorina Stanca)
- 11:30 - 11.45 Dynamics and partnership with local associations involved in LoCloud: A study case with Gironde (Agnès Vatican)
- 11:45 - 12:00 Czech digital collections from the archaeology and architecture domain in Europeana (Irena Blazkova)
- 12:00 – 12:15 Balkan LoCloud Experience (Jasmina Ninkov and Predrag Djukic)
- 12:15 – 12:30 The cultural challenge in Umbria: Local institutions growing up in the cloud (Giulia Coletti and Claudia Pazzini)
LoCloud and Communities
- 12:30 – 12:45 LoCloud Support for communities and cultural tourism (Silvia Alfreider)
- 12:45 – 13:00 LoCloud: What's in it for me? (Henk Alkemade)
- 13:00 – 13:30 Concluding Remarks and Discussion (Holly Wright)
