LoCloud

Local Content in a Europeana Cloud (LoCloud) was a best practice network which began in March 2013, and ran for three years. It was coordinated by the Norsk Kulturrad and was made up of 32 partners across 26 European countries. LoCloud followed directly on from the aforementioned CARARE project and EuropeanaLocal, another recently completed best practice network project, funded under the e-Contentplus programme. It played an important role in ensuring the digital content provided by Europeana’s local and regional cultural institutions were represented in Europeana. The intention of LoCloud was to combine the metadata mapping methodology of CARARE with cloud computing technology, making it easier for small to medium sized heritage organisations to make their contents accessible via Europeana. The ADS was involved in most of the project workpackages and will led the work on dissemination and use, contributing content, organising events, and promoting services.