Presentation given by Bülent Yılmaz, Özgür Külcü, Tolga Çakmak Hacettepe University Department of Information Management. Turkey LoCloud Conference Sharing local cultural heritage online with LoCloud services Amersfoort, Netherlands 5 February 2016

1. Increasing Visibility of Cultural Heritage Objects:
A Case of Turkish Content within the scope of
LoCloud Project
Bülent Yılmaz, Özgür Külcü, Tolga Çakmak
Hacettepe University Department of Information Management
5th February 2016
Amersfoort, Netherlands

2. The team has:
•Coordinated dissemination in Turkey and
engagement with small and medium-sized
institutions
•Built on previous experiences from the
AccessIT project of providing content to
Europeana
•Supported the Koç University VEKAM in
providing its collection of 1138
postcards/photos, maps and plans
Team Turkey!

3. Other activities
•Metadata mapping, working with MINT, MoRE and LoCloud
Collections
•Training 3 members of Team Turkey.
•Distance Education on LoCloud Tools and Services
14 December 2015 – 14 January 2016
79 participants from archives, libraries, museums and schools in
Turkey

5. Item Pageviews from Vekam ContentDM
Jan. Feb. March April May June July
Item Pageviews
VEKAM LoCloud 649 987 1.040 941 1.363 1.144 1.688

6. General Appearance of Turkish Content

7. Most viewed LoCloud Turkish colleciton in Euroepana
in December 2015

8. Example of an item from the
Turkish collection in Europeana
Example of an item from the
Turkish collection in Europeana

9. LoCloud Turkish collection pageview in
Europeana

10. From Turkey total content is 50.000. 2% of
the content is coming over the LoCloud
Project.
From Turkey total content is 50.000. 2% of
the content is coming over the LoCloud
Project.

12. LoCloud Tools and Services Training in
Hacettepe University
• Hacettepe University has been completed a training programme
that 79 archivists, librarian and students participated in.
• As part of the training program a survey questionnaire was
conducted to evaluate expectations for further assessments and
publications.
http://locloudegitim.org/
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cNx4h2tKa9iJa8sk
mowTgHfduNfme5Wan3XyDa1q_CM/edit?usp=forms_home

13. Training Program

14. Results
• LoCloud added new features to help more people and
organizastion in Turkey for sharing their content.
• Cloud computing services, metadata harvesting and mapping, publishing
the content on Europeana.
• More than 70 participants trained in MINT, MoRE, LoCloud
collections and Europeana.
• At least 1.000 people heard for the first time in conferences
about sharing cultural heritage, microservices, Europeana, aim
and trends.

15. Expectations
• Multinational studies have to continue on content sharing,
developing technological services and raising awareness.
• Team Turkey open for new collaborations.
“Peace at home peace in the World”
Atatürk

16. Thanks!
Bülent Yılmaz, Özgür Külcü, Tolga Çakmak
Hacettepe University Department of Information Management (iSchool)
5th February 2016
Amersfoort, Netherlands