locloud - d6 4: competition awards

Local content in a Europeana cloud

D6.4: Competition Awards

Authors:Silvia Alfreider (NRA)Kate Fernie (2Culture Associates)

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Authors: SilviaAlfreider,NRAKateFernie,2CultureAssociates

Contributors: SheenaBassett,2CultureAssociates CarolUsher,2CultureAssociates

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TableofContents

1 ExecutiveSummary................................................................................................................6

2 Introduction..............................................................................................................................73 LoCloudHackathon,Paris....................................................................................................83.1 Callforparticipation....................................................................................................................83.2 Theevent..........................................................................................................................................83.3 Presentationoftheapplications..............................................................................................93.4 Thewinner.....................................................................................................................................10

4 LoCloudcompetition............................................................................................................124.1 ThelaunchoftheLoCloudcompetition...............................................................................124.2 Procedureforselectingthewinners.....................................................................................144.2.1 Thejudgingpanel...................................................................................................................................144.2.2 Criteria........................................................................................................................................................15

4.3 Participants...................................................................................................................................174.4 Competitionentries....................................................................................................................194.5 ThewinnersofLoCloudcompetition....................................................................................214.6 Thewinner.....................................................................................................................................214.7 Therunnerup...............................................................................................................................224.8 Awardsceremony........................................................................................................................22

5 LoCloudcompetition’scontributiontodissemination.............................................246 Conclusions.............................................................................................................................30

7 References...............................................................................................................................31

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1 ExecutiveSummary LoCloudisaBestPracticeNetworkco-fundedundertheCIPICT-PSPProgrammeoftheEuropeanCommission.OneofthemaingoalsoftheprojecthasbeentoaddasignificantamountofcontentfromsmallandmediumsizedculturalinstitutionstoEuropeana1.

EuropeanaprovidesaccesstomillionsofdigitisedmaterialsfromEuropeanmuseums,libraries,archivesandmultimediacollectionsviaitsportal.LoCloudhashadaspecificfocus on the content available in smaller cultural institutions partly because theircontent has been under-represented in Europeana but also for its focus on the localculturalheritage.

LoCloudorganisedanopencompetitionduring2015with thedualaimofstimulatinginnovative use of cloud technologies and the creation of views of local places usingcontentmadeavailableviaEuropeana.TheyearbeganwithaHackathonhostedattheGoogle Culture Institute in Paris. The launch of the “My Local Heritage” and “MyLoCloud Services” strands of the competition followed in early summer 2015. Thecompetitionresultedinsomeinterestingandenjoyablepresentationsof localheritageseenthroughtheeyesofstudentsandothers.ThecompetitionconcludedwithaprizeawardceremonyheldatLoCloud’sfinalconferenceinAmersfoort.

This deliverable describes the LoCloud competition and the related disseminationactivities. Through the competition it was possible to reach stakeholders outside thepartnerorganizations,likestudents,librarians,journalists,designerandothersworkingintheculturalfield.

TheentriestotheLoCloudcompetitioncanbeviewedontheprojectwebsiteat:

http://www.locloud.eu/LoCloud-Competition.

1 http://www.europeana.eu

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2 IntroductionThe aim of the LoCloud competition was to stimulate best practice and innovationamong individual regions and localities in a ‘view’ in Europeana of the history andheritageoftheirlocality.

Anothergoalof the competitionwas to contribute todisseminationabout theprojectand its results across Europe to curators, local historians, students, volunteers,developers,aggregatorsandculturalinstitutions.

TheLoCloudCompetitionwasorganizedin2rounds:

1) LoCloudHackathon,heldinParisinFebruary20152) LoCloudCompetition,launchedinMay2015with2strands:

- MyLocalHeritage- MyLoCloudServices

The competition was been promoted through LoCloud’s web site, LoCloud partner’swebsites,FacebookandTwitter.

DedicatedwebpagesweresetupforboththeHackathonandtheLoCloudCompetition:

• The Hackathonmicro-site provided developers with access information aboutLoCloud Services and Europeana content, and the Hackathon itself:http://more.LoCloud.eu/hackathon/.

• A new section was created within LoCloud’s Website for the competitionprovidinginformationforpotentialparticipantsaboutthetwostrands,thekindof entries that we were looking for and an application form:http://www.locloud.eu/LoCloud-Competition/Competition-Information.

LoCloud partners created dedicated web pages in their national languages andtranslated the competition press release to launch the competition in their country.Partners actively promoted the competition through their networks. Details and thelinks of the national web pages are published at http://www.locloud.eu/LoCloud-Competition/In-your-country.

Thirty-seven entries were received for the LoCloud Competition and five teamsparticipatedintheLoCloudHackathon.

TheentriestotheHackathonwerejudgedandtheprizeawardedtothewinnerontheday of the Hackathon. The entries to the LoCloud Competition were judged inNovember2015andthewinnersinvitedtopresenttheirentriesandreceivetheirprizeattheLoCloudfinalevent,inAmersfoort,Netherlandson5thFebruary2016.

All of the competition entries were published on the LoCloud website and entrantsreceivedaCertificateofParticipationinappreciationfortheircontributions.

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3 LoCloudHackathon,ParisEuropeanaTech is a communityof experts, developers and researchers from theR&Dsector,whichformspartof theEuropeanaNetwork. Europeanaorganisedthesecondinternational EuropeanaTech conference at the Bibliothèque nationale de France inParisinFebruary2015.LoCloudwasinvitedbyEuropeanatoorganiseaHackathoninacollaborationwiththeGoogleCultureInstituteinParisaspartofthisevent,.

The Hackathon was organised by the Digital Curation Unit of the Athena ResearchCentreonbehalfofLoCloudaspartofthecompetition.

TheaimoftheHackathonwastoinvitedeveloperstotryoutsomeoftheservicesthathave been created by LoCloud and to use them to come up with some innovativeapplications.

TheLoCloudHackathonwasheldonFebruary11,2015attheGoogleCultureInstituteinParis.

3.1 CallforparticipationThe call for participation was launched by Athena RC, who set up a micro-site fordeveloperstoaccessinformationabouttheHackathon:http://more.LoCloud.eu/hackathon/.

ThecallinviteddeveloperstotakepartinaHackathonattheGoogleCulturalInstituteinParisonWednesday,February11th,tobuildaninnovativeapplicationusingLoCloudServicesandEuropeanadata.

ThecallwasadvertisedviatheEuropeanaTechmailinglist,anewsitemontheLoCloudwebsiteandviasocialmedia.

3.2 TheeventTheHackathon tookplace in theLabat theGoogleCultural Institute inParis. AfterashortwelcometotheLabfromGoogleandapresentationaboutLoCloudservices, theparticipant’sworkstationsweresetup.LoCloudservicesweremadeavailablefordevelopersonVirtualMachinesviatheMOReinfrastructure,including:

• TheMORerepositoryitself,• TheEnrichmentservices,• Geolocationservices,• Historicalplacenamesservice,• Vocabularyservicesand• TheWikimediaapplication.

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Sample Europeana content was also made available for download and though RESTendpoints. Other useful information (such as thesauri) were also provided throughREST.

APIs were available for the MoRe aggregator and the LoCloud micro-services fordeveloperstousetobuildtheirownapplications.TheAPIswereRESTbasedandmadeuseofoneofthethreefollowingformats:XML,RDF,JSON.

All participants were asked to bring their own laptops and to be familiar with thetechnologiesusedbythevariousservices.Developerswereinvitedto:

• createtheirownapplications(e.g.awebbasedapporamobileapp)or• create their own metadata enrichment services in any programming languagethroughMORe’svirtualenrichmentdriver(VED)andplugthemindirectlyintotheenrichmentprocess.

Thedeveloperswereworkinginanamazingspace.TheGoogleLabhasagigapixeldisplaywall,which in the later part of the daywasused to display some of the results of theInstitute’s very high definition scanning ofartworks.

3.3 PresentationoftheapplicationsThefiveteamsparticipatingtotheLoCloudHackathoncameupwithsomeinterestingideasandapplicationsinashortspaceoftime. All5teamspresentedtheirprototypeapplicationstothepanelofjudgesandtheotherparticipantsattheendoftheday.

The applications presented were very varied. Two teams came up with map-basedapplications for end-users – one for crowd-sourcing the addition ofmap locations toarchives of photos and the other a route planning app for tourists. A third teamproposed creating links between archive items and news from culturalinstitutions. The final two applications were designed to help with managing the

Figure1:HackathoninprogressintheLabattheGoogleCultureInstitute

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process of ingestion – one to quality check metadata and the other to help projectmanagerstomonitortheprogressofpeopleworkinginthesystem.

An international judging panelwas appointedtoreviewall theentries to theHackathonandtoselectthewinner.Thepanelincluded:

Costis Dallas (Athena Research Centre andUniversityofToronto),

JamesHelmsley(Europeana),

AndyNeal(DigitalNewZealand),

IngridaVosylute(UniversityofVilnius)and

KateFernie(2Culture).

The panel voted for the most innovative application/service presented at theHackathon.

3.4 ThewinnerThe winning entry wasMoRe Quality presentedbyVangelisBanos.

The winning application was developed with theaim ofmaking it possible to check the quality ofmetadata in a repository and makecorrections. The application uses the LoCloudMoRe API key to check for common metadataproblems (such as invalid date formats, authornames,languagecodes)andtomakecorrectionstonormalize the data. The application isconfigurable in a way that allows repositorymanagerstodesignadditionalchecks.

ThewinnerofthecompetitionwasawardedwithaprizeofaMoto360smartwatch.

Theconcept

TheMetadata&ObjectRepository (MoRe2) is aneasyandpowerful tool toaggregateinformation and harvest metadata from multiple sources in multiple schemas. The 2 http://more.dcu.gr/

Figure2:KateFerniecongratulatingthedeveloperswhotookpartinthe

LoCloudhackathon

Figure3:VangelisBanos,thewinnerofthehackathon

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variety of aggregated metadata usually creates problematic situations regarding thequalityoftheharvestedmetadata.

Metadata may pass the standard Europeana XML validity tests but elements mayincludeproblematic values. For instance: adc:datevalueor anauthornamecouldbeformatted in thewrongwayorbe incomplete.Theaimof theMoReQuality tool is toimplementavalidationsystem,whichcouldbeabletocatchtheseerrorsandproduceusefulreportstothecollectionadministrators.

MoReQualitycommunicateswiththeLoCloudMoReinstanceusingaspecificuserAPIKey, retrieves the ingested metadata and performs evaluations to identify commonerrorssuchas:

• Invaliddateformats• Invalidauthornames• Invalidhyperlinks• Invalidlanguagecodes

The application is implemented in such a way that enables developers to add extraevaluation rules in an easy and intuitive way by implementing simple functions -plugins.

Thefullsourcecodefortheapplicationhasbeenmadefreelyavailableat:https://bitbucket.org/vbanos/more-quality/

Figure4:MoReQualityapplication

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4 LoCloudcompetitionThe main aim of the LoCloud international competition was to encourage people toexploreafavouriteplaceorpartoftheirlocalhistorythroughEuropeana,andpresenttheirexperienceonlineintheformofwebpages,ablogorvideo.AsecondstrandwasincludedtoencourageusesofLoCloudServices.

Thecompetitionstrandswere:

1) "MyLocalHeritage"forcurators,volunteers,localhistorians,orstudentstopresenttheirexperienceofexploringtheirlocalheritageinEuropeanainashortvideo,blogpostoronlineessay.

2) "My LoCloud Services" for developers, aggregators and culturalinstitutions topresent their implementationordevelopmentofLoCloudservices.

ThecompetitionwaslaunchedinMay2015withtheinitialdeadlineforentriesgivenasthe1stofOctober.Thedeadlinewaslaterextendedtothe8stofNovember,withtheaimofencouragingmoreschoolstoparticipate(the1stdeadlinewasfelttobetooearly).

The competition entrieswere judged at the end of November 2015 and thewinnersannounced. The winners were invited to present their entries at the LoCloud finalevent,whichwasheldinAmersfoort,intheNetherlandson5thFebruary2016.

Thecompetitionwinnersreceivedaprizeconsistinginatabletandadiploma.

4.1 ThelaunchoftheLoCloudcompetitionLoCloudcompetitionwaslaunchedonthe13thofMay2015withanewwebpageandapressrelease.

A section of the LoCloudwebsitewascreatedforthecompetition. Thisprovidedinformation about thecompetition, the types ofentries that we werelooking for in each strand,links to pages about thecompetitionineachcountryandalinktotheapplicationform.

http://www.locloud.eu/LoCloud-Competition/Competition-Information

Figure5:CompetitionpagesintheLoCloudwebsite

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Projectpartnerstranslatedthepressreleaseintotheirnationallanguage,andmostalsocreated a webpage in their own language to promote the LoCloud competition. As aresultthecompetitionpageswereavailablein21Languages(includingEnglish).

All LoCloud partners publicized the competition among their national networks,throughtheirwebsites,socialmedia,nationaleventsanddirectmailing.

A linkwas created from the competition section of the LoCloudwebsite to thepagescreated by the partners in their national language. This page is available at:http://www.LoCloud.eu/LoCloud-Competition/Competition-Information/In-your-country

The competition was promoted through social media (mainly via Twitter), throughevents (suchas theLoCloudworkshopat theDigitalHeritage conference inGranada)andaPressrelease.

Figure 6: List of the country pages for the LoCloud competition

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A press release was published on LoCloud’s website in English and this was thentranslatedintodifferentlanguagesbythemajorityofLoCloudpartners.Theaimwastoattract creative people across Europe, with different backgrounds and develop aninnovativeproductcelebratinglocalhistory.

Figure7:ThepressreleasefortheLoCloudcompetitionpublishedontheprojectwebsite(left),MECD’swebsite(belowleft)andtheNationalArchivesofNorway’swebsite

(belowright)

4.2 ProcedureforselectingthewinnersThirty-sevenentriesweresubmittedtotheMyLocalHeritagestrandofthecompetition.Aninternationaljudgingpanelreviewedtheseentriesandthewinnerandrunnerupwereselected.

4.2.1 ThejudgingpanelAn international selection committee was appointed to review all the entries and toselectthewinnersoftheLoCloudcompetition.Thecommitteeincluded:

VildeRonge,NationalArchivesofNorway,assistantdirectorMilenaPopova,Europeana,BusinessDevelopmentManagerRe-useServices KateFernie,2CultureAssociates,projectmanagerLoCloud

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4.2.2 CriteriaForMylocalheritagethejurymadetheselectionsfollowingthesemaincriteria:

1. First looking for how the person/team has explored their local history orfavouriteplaceusingEuropeana.

2. Secondobserving if theentry includedsimpletextorspokenwordkeptsimplesothattheentriescouldbesharedwithpeoplefromacrossEurope

3. Third verifying if the entry shared the experience of usingEuropeana in someway

4. Fourth checking if the licencefor the content used in the entrieswas openlylicenced, or the rights cleared by contacting the institution that provided thecontent.

Eachjurymemberviewedandexploredeachoftheentriesoveraperiodoftwoweeks.

A free online tool called “Trello” was used to support the judging process. ThecompetitionentriesweremountedascardsinaTrelloproject.

Byclickingonacarditwaspossibletoopenitandviewtheinformationsuppliedbytheparticipants on their entry form. In cases where the entrant had provided thedescription of their entry in the local language, the text was been translated usingGoogleTranslateandaddedtothecardasanaidforhejudgingpanel.

Figure8:LoCloudcompetitionentriesinTrello

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Eachcardincludedalinktotheentry,incaseswheretheentrywassubmittedasavideopostedonYouTubetheembeddedviewerenabledviewingwithinTrelloitself.Severaloftheentrieswereintheformofblogposts,webpagesandvideospostedinVimeo;linkswereprovidedtotheseoutsideTrello.

Thecardenabledvotingandincludedacommentboxforjudges.

EachjudgelookedatalloftheentriesandusedTrellotovotefortheirshort-listandtocommentontheentries.

ThejudgingpanelthenmetviaSkypetodiscusstheshort-listedentriesandchoosethewinnerandtherunnerup.

Figure9:CompetitionentrycardinTrello

Figure10:ViewingthevideoentrycardwithinTrello

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4.3 ParticipantsMostoftheentriesresultedinacreativeremixofEuropeanacontent,creatingablog,avideoorawebsite.There were thirty-seven entries from fourteen different countries. The majority ofentrants were students; there were also several librarians and people working incultural institutions,designers,a journalistandamusiccomposer.Mostof theentrieswerevideos;therewerealsowebsites,blogsandsomeotherresources.

Toshowthevarietyofentrytypestherearesomeexampleslistedinthetablebelow:

Country Title DescriptionBulgaria Exploreyour

localhistorythroughEuropeana

The video starts with a librarian, scanning photos for the Europeanawebsite.Thencontinueswithagirl,whovisitsthePubliclibraryinVarna,searches for photos of her town in the Europeana website and thendiscoverstherealphotosinthelibrary.Sheexploresherhome-townandseesthedifferencethroughtheyears.

Ireland Culture&HeritageinCountyMeath

MeathHeritage.com is a dynamic public facing website which givesusersaccesstoinformationpertainingtoover3000NationalMonumentsinCountyMeath.ThewebsiteconsolidatesinformationfromanumberofOpen Data projects including the National Monuments Service, TheLogainm Placename Project, Geograph UK & Ireland and Europeana.Thewebsite is a searchable by over 300monument classifications and800 townlands. It promotes community engagement by allowingmembers of the public to contribute information by posting reviews,comments, information and photos about each of the NationalMonuments.

Hungary ThisPlaceisCOOL!

ThisPlaceisCOOL!projectisaninteractivecityhistorybasedmappingsystem ofHungariannoppadesigngroup.Thevarious elementsof thiscity-scaleinstallationcometogethertoformamapwhichmarksvariousplacesinBudapestwithinterestinghistories,siteswhichwedon’treallynoticeduringthehustleandbustleofoureverydaylives.Thegoaloftheprojectwas topointoutman-madeplacesof interestwhichareusuallyhidden fromourview,eithermetaphoricallyorphysically,bybuildings,otherobjectsor time itself.Theycanbehouseswhichhavegainednewfunctions,orcitysquares,streetcorners,storesorevennaturaltreasuresthathaveliteraryorcultural-historicalsignificance.

Croatia AZ-CroatianGlagoliticMurals

A video about the Glagolitic script, as well as Glagolitic tradition, is aCroatian cultural phenomenon unique for its linguistic, graphic,ethnological, anthropological and semiotic characteristics. In 2014,followingthedecisionoftheMinistryofCulture,theGlagoliticscriptwasinscribed into the list of intangible cultural heritage of the Republic ofCroatia.

Serbia KraljevoinMotion

Videopresentationintimelapsecalled"KraljevoinMotion".TheideaofthispresentationistopresentKraljevoandthelifeinitin24hours.

Serbia GreetingsfromDespotovac-PozdravizDespotovca

Video presenting the local history of the town of Despotovac withsignificant emphasis onManasija monastery, which is located near thecity.Astheoneofthesitesofworldculturalheritage,Manasiaisdeeplyimbuedintothepastofthetownwhichisnamedbymonasteryfounder,despotStefanLazarevic.

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Country Title DescriptionSpain Timelimitation Blogmadebya time traveller,who ineverypost talksabouta stageof

theZaragoza'shistory.Thefirstpostisapresentationaboutthetraveller,and since the second post he starts the trips, until he develops someaddictiontothetrips.

Spain CathedralofourladyofthePilar

Blog combining different work programs which contain video,photographs,presentations.Muchof the informationhasbeenobtainedfromdifferentwebsites.Themaingoalwastosharewithother internetusers,informationaboutapartofthecity,Zaragoza.

Spain MonumentsofZaragoza

Video about the most important monuments of Zaragoza telling thehistoryofeachone.

Serbia ThesightsofOreskovica

InteractiveimageaboutsightsofOreskovica,asmallvillageineasternSerbia.StudentsofPrimaryschool "Djura Jaksic"Oreskovica (3rdgradestudents)createdthisimagewithhelpoftheirteachertopresenttotheirpeersfromothercountries,whicharethemostimportantsightsoftheirplace.Studentschose6sights(TheRegionalCenterforProtectionofHail,The Church of Saint Great-martyrMarina, TheMemorial Fountain, TheHuntingLodge, Primary school "Djura Jaksic" andTheCultural Center).Theymadephoto for each sight andwrote a short text. Theyuploadedtheirmaterials on Internet and created the interactive image, by usingThinglink.

Spain ZConfidential Short film telling a detective story. The young detectives follow trailsconducting to a big discovery. It's a mystery about the Nobel laureateRamónyCajal,abouthisinvestigationandthemoderncity.

Bulgaria VarnaBeneathMyShoes

Theideaofthisvideoistoshowhowculturallyrichanyplacecouldbe,and especially Varna. Europeana helped to wake up curiosity and thevideo shows some girls walking down tiny little streets with mightybuildingsdiscoveringhistorywithhelpofEuropeana.

Italy MeinFreund-Kamerad/Ilmionemico-amico

VideooftwosoldiersfromdifferentregimentsarefacetofaceintheAlpsduring the first World War. The students tried to imagine how theirdialoguewould be. On one side they behave like friends and help eachother to tackle thewinter on themountains, sharing food on the otherhand they know that on thenext daysmaybe theywill have to act likeenemiesinthenextbattle.

UK AGlimpseofVictorianYork

Video using visual and audiomaterial fromEuropeana, YorkMuseumsTrust, Wikimedia and Freesound.org to explere the city of York. givedepth and breadth. The viewer is guided round Victorian York by acouple, visiting key locations that tell a variety of different storiesassociatedwiththesocial,economicandindustrialhistoryofthecity.TheapproachishighlyvisualwithtextkeptshorttocaterforESLviewers.

Slovenia Europeana-knowledgeinyourhands

VideoshowstheuseofEuropeanaindiscoveringlocalculturalheritage.AstudenthastowriteanessayaboutthecityofKoper.ShefindsalltheanswersinEuropeana.

Romania Aflashbackinhistory

Short video to encourage people to access Europeana in order todiscovertheirlocalhistory.

Romania Awalkin...time Thevideo"Awalkin...time"invitestheviewerstoashortonlinewalkinthepark,theCentralParkofCluj-Napoca,butalsotoawalkintime,withthehelpofEuropeana.

Denmark Copenhagen-Doyouknowyourlocalhistory?

ThevideoshowshowtouseEuropeanaincollaborationwiththelibrarytoexploreone'slocalhistory.Bothcontainlargeamountsofdataonourheritagebothphysicallyanddigitally.Europeanaisavailabletousintheurban space and allows us to further explore our local heritage evenwhenweareonthemove.

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Country Title DescriptionDenmark Timehastold

meVideo telling thestoryofCopenhagen'sharbour through theeyesofanartist. Thereminiscence fromtheolddays is stillhere -andsoare thestories. Though it's only 10 min from Copenhagen centre, it feels likesteppingintoadifferentworld;It'sroughandmildatthesametime.Theauthorofthisvideocomposedthemusicaccompanyingthevideo.

4.4 CompetitionentriesThe table below shows all LoCloud competition’s entries with title, name of theparticipants and provenance. All of the competition entries can be viewed at:http://locloud.eu/LoCloud-CompetitionCountry Title Nameofauthor/s Institution(ifapplicable)Bulgaria Exploreyourlocal

historythroughEuropeana

AneliyaKalcheva RobertGrodonUniversityScotland

Ireland Culture&HeritageinCountyMeath

AlisonBoland NationalUniversityofIreland

Ireland GlascarraigMotteandBaileyHistoricalandArchaeologicalSurvey

ByronJones RubiconHeritageIreland

Hungary ThisPlaceisCOOL! ALVÉGILóci,EKETamás,VARGALívia,KOVÁCSAndrea

Noppadesign

Serbia UncleIsa`sSchool DejanKreculj PublicSchool'JovanJovanovicZmaj',Kovin

Croatia AZ-CroatianGlagoliticMurals

JasnaHorvat,DomagojTopić,JosipaMijoč,SandaKatavić-Čaušić

InstituteforScientificandArtResearchinCreativeIndustries–Andizet

Croatia "ThisismyCulturalHeritage":OldPostcardsFrameworkPrintedby3DPrinterandInspiredbyEuropeana

FilipCvitić,NikolaUgarković

Graphicdesigner,Student

Serbia EchoesofMemories MirkoDrmanac PublicLibrary"VladislavPetkovićDis"Čačak

Serbia KraljevoinMotion ZlatkoMilojicic FacultyofElectronicEngineeringSerbia Greetingsfrom

Despotovac-PozdravizDespotovca

TomislavMarković DepartmentofHistory,theFacultyofPhilosophy,UniversityofBelgrade,Serbia

Spain Timelimitation LucasBlanquezTeixeiraDanielGraciaAlevesqueAlbaMontañésAguilarMarinaAsínSoro

GoyaSecondarySchool

Spain CathedralofourladyofthePilar

MartaSoriaGracia,MarinaCastellanoAznar,LaraHurtadoSieso,MarinadelOlmoJalle,ElenaCalderónAznar

GoyaSecondarySchool

Spain SitesofZaragoza RebecaPérezDuato,RaquelGadeaGotor,

GoyaSecondarySchool

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Country Title Nameofauthor/s Institution(ifapplicable)ElenaCegoñinoGiral,FernandaDíazNeira,MartaGarcíaRobles

Spain MonumentsofZaragoza IreneMarínGuallar,MaríaBusonsHerrera,BlancaIllanaRangel,SaraRodrigoJiménez,

GoyaSecondarySchool

Spain MonumentsofZaragoza IreneMarínGuallar,MaríaBusonsHerrera,BlancaIllanaRangel,SaraRodrigoJiménez,

GoyaSecondarySchool

Serbia ThesightsofOreskovica SlavicaGomilanovic(teacher-mentor),teamofstudents:JelenaPetrovic,DaniloStrajinovic,SaraDimitrijevic,TamaraPaunovic,AnitaMarkovic

Primaryschool"DjuraJaksic"Oreskovica

Serbia MojgradKraljevo GordanaPetrović Mašinskatehničkaškola"14.oktobar"Kraljevo

Spain ZConfidential AndreaSamsón,SergioGraciaBolea,IgnacioJoséLambánSánchez,GloriaMartínezGómez,PaulaBarzu,

GoyaSecondarySchool

Bulgaria VarnaBeneathMyShoes MarinaStoilova,KosaraBakalova

SecondarySchoolVarna

Spain LosviajesdeSantiago MariaRocioMoreirasPlaza

InterdepartmentallibraryoftheUniversityofSantiagodeCompostela

Lithuania Europeana-virtualtoreality

GretaAlksnytė,AistėČiučiurkaitė

UniversityofVilnius

Italy MeinFreund-Kamerad/Ilmionemico-amico

NadinePescoller,NoraPlanatscher,AngelicaSchanungandHannahSpechtenhauser

SecondarySchooloflanguages

Italy Readingthepast... JenniferComploi,AnnaCostamoling,DeboraDellostoandIsmahanOuerghi

SecondarySchooloflanguages

England,U.K

AGlimpseofVictorianYork

IzzyBartley UniversityofYork

Slovenia Europeana-knowledgeinyourhands

TinaŠkrokovandUrškaBonin

SrečkoVilharPublicLibrary,Koper

Slovenia Mariborinthepastandtoday

MihaelMuršec,SvenPušnik,PatrikRek,Nejc-FilipSvenšek.

II.HighschoolMaribor

Spain CatedraldeZamora BlancaFlorHerreroMorán,CésarAmadorIsidroGarcía

Art-HistoryDepartment-UniveristyofSalamanca

Spain LeyendoenmisrinconesfavoritosdeBarañain

JesúsAranayClaraFlamarique

BibliotecadeBarañain

Romania TheExtraordinaryAdventuresofPrivate

BogdanStanciu Sintezamonthlymagazine,onlineversion

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Country Title Nameofauthor/s Institution(ifapplicable)Nistor

Romania Aflashbackinhistory CatalinCistelican

SecondarySchool,Cluj

România Moșteireamealocală:Mediaș

IoanaTeodoraDuma BibliotecaMunicipală„St.L.Roth”Mediaș

Romania/România

ClujandItsMonuments/Clujșimonumentelesale

Paul-DanielGolban UniversitateaBabeș-BolyaiFacultateadeLitereNO-ENAnulI/Babeș-BolyaiUniversityFacultyofLettersNO-ENFirstYear

Romania RediscoveringCluj CraciunAnamaria Romania Awalkin...time StefanMihaiTapastau "Babes-Bolyai"University,The

FacultyofLetters.Romania Europeana@Pinterest

byDeliaChiraChiraDelia "OctavianGoga"ClujCountyLibrary

Romania Let'smakethemaware BaciuDiana-Laura BibliotecaJudeteana"OctavianGoga"Cluj-Napoca

Denmark Copenhagen-Doyouknowyourlocalhistory?

AnnaCecilieBjörklundandTrineChristensen

ITUniversity

Denmark Timehastoldme GunhildØibakkenPedersen

Artistandmusician

4.5 ThewinnersofLoCloudcompetition

ThewinnersoftheMyLocalHeritagecompetitionwereasfollows.

4.6 Thewinner

Figure11:“Mariborinthepastandtoday”

The winning entry was the video “Maribor in the past and today”. The video wasproducedbyMihaelMuršec(asecondgradehighschoolstudent)withmembersoftheschoolcomputerclubfromIIHighschool,Maribor:SvenPušnik,PatrikRek,Nejc-FilipSvenšek.

“I'vebeeninterestedonmultimediasincetheprimaryschool”saysMihaelMuršec.

Thejury’smotivation

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Mihael Muršec’s video is a lively exploration of the town of Maribor then and now.There’s a nice mixture of modern images and videos, with the inclusion of screencaptures of searches on Europeana showing how the archives were discovered. Thevideo shows how the townhas changed and also how some aspects of people’s livescontinue from the past to today. The final sequence compares footage of modernsports/adventureactivitiestoarchiveimagesofskiingandothersportsaboutthetowngivingastrongimpressionoflifeinthetownthenandnow.

4.7 TherunnerupTherunnerupwas“TheExtraordinaryAdventuresof Private Nistor” by Bogdan Stanciu anexperienced, award-winning journalist and non-fictionauthorbasedinCluj-NapocainRomania.The blog shows the story of a Romanianartilleryman in theGreatWar,who came to fightagainst the Japanese, for defending a GermancolonyinnowadaysChina.

PrivateNistor sailedhalf the seasof theworld toarrive in theFar East, aboard an Austro-Hungarian cruiser. He took part inthefirstbattlesrecordedinhistorybetweenaplaneandaboat;hewastakenprisonerbytheJapaneseandwroteadiarywithallhisadventures.

PrivateNistortookpartinthefirstbattlesbetweenaplaneanda boat,was taken prisoner by the Japanese andwrote a diarywithallhisadventures,whichisnowavailableonline.Theblog-postusesandcitesEuropeanaasaprimarysourcefortextandphotos, completing the storywith views expressed by varioushistoriansandwarfareexperts.

4.8 AwardsceremonyThe two winners were invited to Amersfoort for LoCloud’s final Conference. Theawards ceremony took place in the afternoon session. The competition awardswereintroducedbyKateFerniewhopresentedofavideoshowcaseoftheentries.

Theshowcasecanbeviewedat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5DNK-II_dw

Figure11:TheextraordinaryadventuresofPrivateNistor

Figure12:PrivateNistor’sdiary

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HenkAlkemadefromRCERijksdienstvoorhetCultureeelErfgoedpresentedtheprizesto the winner and the runner up of the My Local Heritage competition. Both wereawardedwithadiplomaandatabletby,LoCloudpartnerastheirprize.

Figure13:HenkAlkemadepresentingcertificatestothecompetitionwinnersMihaelMuršec(left)andBogdanStanciu(right)

Figure14:CompetitionCertificate

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5 LoCloudcompetition’scontributiontodisseminationBoththeLoCloudprojectandEuropeanaweredisseminatedacrossEuropethroughtheLoCloudcompetition,whichprovidedawayofreachingouttocurators,localhistorians,students,volunteers,developers,aggregatorsandculturalinstitutions.

The use of Google analytics on the project website enabled an overview of the pageviewsgeneratedbytheLoCloudcompetition

Apage viewis defined as a view of a page on your site that is being tracked by theAnalyticstrackingcode.Ifauserclicksreloadafterreachingthepage,thisiscountedasanadditionalpageview.Ifausernavigatestoadifferentpageandthenreturnstotheoriginalpage,asecondpageviewisrecordedaswell.

Auniquepageview,asseenintheContentOverviewreport,aggregatespageviewsthataregeneratedbythesameuserduringthesamesession.Auniquepageviewrepresentsthenumberofsessionsduringwhichthatpagewasviewedoneormoretimes.

CompetitionInformationPage

Thispageprovidedabriefintroductionwithlinkstothetwostrandsofthecompetition‘MyLocalHeritage‘and ‘MyLocalServices’ from the launchon13thMay2015 to11thJanuary2016.

Thepagereceived1,912pageviewsofwhich1,578wereunique.

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ReferralsFromthe launchof theprojectupuntil thedeadlinetherewere464sessions from53referralsources.Thetopreferralstothispageofthewebsitewereasfollows:

• 132(28,4%)fromFacebook• 49 (10.6%) from Vilnius University Faculty of Communication, Lithuania

(kf.vu.lt)and• 48(10.3%)fromTwitter.

There were also direct referrals to the two different stands of the project, whichbypassedthecompetitionintroductionpage.MyLocalHeritageReferralsThemajorityof265referralstothe“MyLocalHeritage”pagecamefromFacebookwith61pageviews(23%), followedbyTwitter,47pageviews(17.7%)and32pageviews(12.1%)fromnetokracija.com.

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MyLoCloudServicesReferralsFor theMyLoCloudServices strandof the competitionpro.europeana.euprovided thehighest number of referrals at 20 page views (13.2%), followed by Twitter, 13 pageviews (8,6%) and On the Move, the Cultural Mobility Information Network, 10 pageviews(6.6%).

MyLocalHeritagehttp://www.locloud.eu/LoCloud-Competition/Competition-Information/My-Local-HeritagePrior to the deadline date (8 Nov 2015) for submission of competition entries therewere1,283pageviewsof the “MyLocalHeritage” strandof thecompetition,1,027of

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thesewere unique visitors and it ranks as sixth overall all in page views on LoCloudsincethestartoftheproject,

Visitorscamerom47countries;Serbiahadthemostvisitsat236(18.2%)followedbyUnitedKingdom198(15.2%),Croatia146(11.2%)andSpain116(8.9%).Thepagecontinuedtoreceivevisitsafterthedeadlinedate.Asof24February2016anadditional237pageviewswerereportedwithvisitsfrom22countries.Thispagerankedasseventhofthepagesviewedonthewebsitesincethestartoftheproject.MyLoCloudServiceshttp://www.locloud.eu/LoCloud-Competition/Competition-Information/My-LoCloud-ServicesTherewere323pageviewsduringtheperiodofthecompetitionwith275uniquevisits.Therehavebeenafurther24pageviewssincethecloseofthecompetition.

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Visitorstothepagecamefrom39countries,SpainandtheUnitedKingdomsharedthetopviewedpageswith41(12.7%)CompetitionPressReleasehttp://www.locloud.eu/LoCloud-Competition/Competition-Information/Press-releasePriortothecompetitiondeadlinethepressreleasewasviewed176timesofwhich153wereuniqueviews,visitorscameform29countrieswiththeUnitedKingdomwiththemostviews(25)followedbyRomania(23),Italy(17),Spain(15)andIreland(11).InYourCountryPagehttp://www.locloud.eu/LoCloud-Competition/Competition-Information/In-your-countryProjectpartnerspromotedtheLoCloudCompetitionontheirownwebsitesintheirlocallanguages.TheLoCloud“in-your-country”pageprovidedlinkstothesewebsitesalongwithadedicatedcontactforeachcountry.Therewere82pageviewsfrom76visitorstothe“InYourCountry”page.CompetitionEntrieshttp://www.locloud.eu/LoCloud-CompetitionOn11th January2016 thecompetitionpageswererestructured toshowcaseallof thecompetitionentries inpreparation for theLoCloudConferenceon5February2016 inAmersfoort,Netherlands.

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Upon completion of the judging process and announcement of thewinners, all of thecompetition entries were made live on the LoCloud website and promoted throughsocialmedia.Informationrelatingtothecompetitionentryrequirementswasmovedtoasubmenu.Todatethispagereceived342pageviews.Visitorshavecomefrom26countrieswithSerbia,Romania,Spain,CroatiaandSloveniaheadingthelist.

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6 ConclusionsThe LoCloud Competition ran in the final phase of the project was organized in tworounds:theLoCloudHackathonheld inParisandLoCloudCompetitiondividedintwostrands“MyLocalHeritage”andMy“LoCloudServices”.

The aim of the competition was to stimulate best practice and innovation amongindividualregionsandlocalitiesina‘view’inEuropeanaofthehistoryandheritageoftheirlocality,withawardstobepresentedattheFinalEvent.

A total of thirty-sevenentrieswere received for the “MyLocalHeritage” competition.Five teamsparticipated in theLoCloudHackathon. Therewerenoentries to the “MyLoCloudServices”strandofthecompetition.AlthoughtherehavebeensignificantusesofLoCloudtechnology,thefeedbackthatwereceivedsuggestedthattheprizewasnotsufficient to encourage entries from developers who preferred the Hackathonenvironment.

An important goal of the competition was to contribute towards disseminating theproject acrossEuropeand to raisingawarenessofEuropeanaamongst curators, localhistorians, students, volunteers, developers, aggregators and cultural institutions. AllpartnerscontributedtoactivedisseminationofthecompetitionthroughLoCloud’swebsite,LoCloudpartner’swebsites,Facebook,Twitter,inconferencesandotherevents.

TheoutcomesofthecompetitionincludeaninnovativeapplicationforqualityassuringmetadataandaseriesofhighlyenjoyableexplorationsofthelocalheritagecreatedbyEuropeanaend-users.

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7 ReferencesLoCloudwebsite,http://www.locloud.eu/LoCloudcompetition,http://www.locloud.eu/LoCloud-CompetitionMorganti,B.etal,,2013,“Deliverable6.1InitialDisseminationReport”,LoCloud,online:http://www.locloud.eu/Resources/DeliverablesMorganti, B. et al,, 2014, “Deliverable 6.2 Interim Dissemination Report”, LoCloud,online:http://www.locloud.eu/Resources/Deliverables