locloud collections: set up your own digital library, museum or archive in the cloud, marcin werla,...
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Presentation about LoCloud Collections: A system designed to help small cultural institutions to set up their own digital library, museum or archive in the cloud, given by Marcin Werla of Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center at the LoCloud workshop, ICOMOS 2014 in Florence. LoCloud Collections is easy to set up, developed with the needs of local heritage organisations in mind, supports multiple collections, many data formats, provides a customizable website, with online support available at low cost with no up-front investment needed - you pay for what you use and is fully scaleable. LoCloud Collections is fully compatible with Europeana and is optimized for search engines. Based on the open source Omeka software, LoCloud Collections has been developed as part of the LoCloud project. The presentation gives a demonstration of how to set up a Collection and publish content online using LoCloud collections. http://www.locloud.euTRANSCRIPT
LoCloud Collec*ons Introduc*on Marcin Werla
Poznań Supercompu*ng and Networking Center Digital Libraries Team
Presented by Holly Wright Archaeology Data Service University of York, UK
LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme
Basic components of a digital collec*on
• Digital content and metadata • SoN IT infrastructure – SoNware (digital collec*on management system)
• Hard IT infrastructure – Service hardware (servers, storage, …) – Network connec*on and hardware (firewall etc.)
– … and a safe and secure place for all that • People – Responsible for digital content and metadata, users of the DCMS
– Responsible for soN IT infrastructure (admins) – Responsible for hard IT infrastructure (admins)
Content
SoNware
Hardware
Basic components of a digital collec*on
• All men*oned components generate costs • In smaller ins*tu*ons there may be no proper hard IT infrastructure for a digital collec*on
• Apart from costs -‐ lack of exper*se to cope with IT infrastructure
• How can the work be simplified and reduce the cost of having a digital collec*on without limi*ng its value for end users?
Content
SoNware
Hardware Fast
Useable
Interes*ng
LoCloud Collec*ons
LoCloud Collec*ons
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