Henk Alkemade discusses the LoCloud project funded by the European Commission to provide local heritage content through Europeana's cloud-based platform. Initial results from an online questionnaire of end-users found that discovered content was generally valued and search facilities were adequate except for the number of clicks and thumbnail quality needed. Suggestions included improving consistency of searches, interface attractiveness, and introductions to Europeana. Analytics showed around 3,000 LoCloud pageviews per month, suggesting the pages were visited 20 times more than average given the amount of content, likely due to project activities.

1. 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

2. Local Heritage: it’s fun

3. And you learn new things!

4. 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?

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. • 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

10. 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

11. Thank you
h.alkemade@cultureelerfgoed.nl

12. 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