locloud: cloud-based services for local cultural heritage
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Cloud-based services for Local Cultural Heritage
Kate Fernie, 2Culture Associates
LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme
Project basics
• 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
• Building on the results of CARARE and Europeana Local
http://www.locloud.eu
Huge numbers of local museums, libraries, archives and independent collections with an enormous amount of interesting content increasingly available online.
Our starting point
Stone idol, Tanderagee,
Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland,
Royal Society of Antiquaries of
Ireland
Wiltshire Heritage Museum
Main goals
• To make it easier for smaller institutions to make their content available by removing technical, semantic and skills barriers
• Exploring the potential of cloud-computing technologies
• Creating easy to use software services for metadata enrichment and metadata capture
• Providing support, guidance and training
• Providing four million items of local heritage content to Europeana
Why cloud?
• Cloud-based services can include infrastructure, platform and software
• Potential benefits for cultural institutions include cost savings, quick deployment and access to resources including technical support
• Lightweight digital library
• Based on the open source Omeka system
• Allows users to publish digital objects on-line in a few minutes
• Scalable, user friendly, with OAI-PMH interface
• Provides storage for metadata and content in various formats
• Incorporates web traffic analytics
• Cloud-based SaaS
LoCloud Collections
https://locloudhosting.net/
LoCloud Collections: adding
Adding locations
Creating your website
Use standard templates or design your own
Publishing items
Example
Vocabulary services
GPL
• Based in TemaTres• Incorporates 29 standard thesauri • allows users to
• add and create vocabularies• and add terms • add translations
http://vocabulary.locloud.eu/
Available thesauri for archaeology include:
• Archaeological objects
• Archaeological Sciences
• Building materials
• Components
• Event type
• Monument Type
• Maritime craft
• Periods
• Archives
Vocabularies
Thesaurus Browse
Linked Data
• A semi-automatic historical geo-information management function and web service.
• Enables local cultural institutions to collaborate in developing the Thesaurus of HPN and enriching ingested metadata.
• Enables export of selected LoCloud HPN Thesaurus data sets.
GPL
Historic Place Names Service
• Developed by DCU, Athena Research Centre
• Aggregation framework
– Based on Fedora Commons and Apache Cassandra
– Storage layer with decentralized and scaleablecomponents
– Pluggable components
– Developers area provides REST API and virtual enrichment drivers
• Cloud-based IaaS
MORe
http://store.locloud.eu
MORe
• User-friendly interface allows data providers to select data sources, manage ingestion, validation, enrichment and publication of their metadata
Integrating the microservices
Enriching the metadata
LoCloud microservices allow provided metadata to be enriched:
• Place names and geographical coordinates• Historical placenames• Concepts from thesauri in the Vocabulary service• Language
• LoCloud support portal incorporates
– user and technical documentation
– eLearning materials
– Question-and-Answer service
– Access to a ticket desk system
http://support.locloud.eu
Summary
• LoCloud has developed services and aggregation infrastructure in the cloud
• These new services are being used to publish content online and to supply it to Europeana
Thank [email protected]
LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme
The views and opinions expressed in thispresentation are the sole responsibility of the
authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.