LoCloud Support for communities and cultural tourism

Support for communities and cultural tourism

Silvia AlfreiderSenior Adviser – National Archives Norway

silalf@arkivverket.no

Europeana Content

LoCloud geo-tagging tool

• Geo-tagging is a valid tool to support cultural tourism • LoCloud geo-tagging tool enablies the geo-coding of

cultural objects

Download Kml file

Great potential for Cultural tourism & local communities

•Why Europeana? •Why LoCloud?•What do we want?

???

?Share cultural heritage with all people

Engage people/tourists with local collections

Prepare content for re-use

What are tourists interested in?

Why this success for apps?

- share moments with friends and family- an app can guide tourists through an unfamiliar environments, but

it’s more then wayfinding- combine the physical world with virtual information

• vangoyourself.com

• Tired of just looking at paintings? • Recreate a painting with your friends.

• A different and deep way for visitors to engage with heritage, based on emotion, playfulness and curiosity.

Examples of applicationsVangoyourself

Examples of applicationsVangoyourself

We need paintings with open licences

*sigh*

• Re-use cultural content in the tourism domain

• Examples from Norway

• Knappen • Rallarvegen• Prøysenvandring

Thank yousilalf@arkivverket.no

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