locloud: what's in it for me?
TRANSCRIPT
local content in a Europeana cloud
Henk Alkemade, Head Digital Infrastructure at RCE Netherlands
LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme
Local Heritage: it’s fun
And you learn new things!
Investigation benefits LoCloud for end-users
•Online Questionnaire end-users•Online Questionnaire Small/Medium sized heritage organisations•Use of Europeana/LoCloud statistics
Report in December 2015
What’s in it for me?
Online Questionnaire end-users (*)
10 questions: •Respondent Information•Discovery Results: Specific Use•Discovery Results: None Specific Use•General Feedback
We have only just started… closing date is the 1st of November
(*) Visitors of the LoCloud collection in Europeana
Questionnaires
Content:•Discovered content is valued from poor to excellent
•When looking for something specific, findeability and useability of information on average were rated higher
•Suggestions made : improve consistency of searches
The first results
User interface: •generally pleasant
•the search facilities are ok, except for amount of clicks needed and quality of thumbnails
•Language often a problem if you go more in detail
The first results
General feedback: •Overall user experience pleasant
•Majority will visit the Europeana-site/LoCloud collection again
•Suggestions: – Improve performance – Improve interface/attractivenes– Introduction to Europeana and how to use it
The first results
• Analytics: appr. 3000 LoCloud pageviews/month (May to August)
• Suggesting LoCloud pages are visited 20 times more (on average and relative to the amount of content)
• Probably due to project activities
• Only time will tell!
The first results
Help us by completing the survey…
•Spend a little time searching the LoCloud collections of Europeana: http://tinyurl.com/LoCloudSearch
•Complete the survey (it will only take 5 minutes):•https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/locloudenduser
•The closing date is the 1st of november
Dear heritage collegues
Thank [email protected]
LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme
The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are the sole responsibility of the
authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.
Funding