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

• 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

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

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.

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Network

Allegorie der Skulptur Klimt, Gustav, 1889MAK

Letter, undated, to Edouard Colonne from Edvard GriegBergen Public Library

• 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

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

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Varstvo Kulturne Dediscine Amersfoort; 2001Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie

Production and conveying

Where?

Piper's Crag, West Yorkshire. © Carved Stone Investigations: Rombalds Moor (CSIRM)

What?

Who?

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

Core infrastructure to aggregate the metadata from our partners and provide to Europeana:

• MINTo Metadata mapping and ingestion

• MORe aggregator framework o Metadata harvesting, validation and enrichmento User-friendly interface for data providers

Aggregator

http://support.locloud.eu/

Support

• 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

LoCloud Ecosystem

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