Linked Heritage Kick-off meeting Rome, 29/4/211 Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism Directorate of Informatics & Telecommunications
Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Tourism (HMCT) responsible for monitoring and funding cultural developments in Greece has funded numerous digitisation projects of cultural institutions large scale digitisation project for the Ministry s public archaeological museums initiatives for facilitating access to this large amount of digitised cultural content
Initiatives for online access to content MICHAEL CULTURE (26) - Greek online catalogue of digital collections - European online catalogue of digital collections ATHENA-EUROPEANA (28) Coordination and support of Greek cultural institutions to provide digital items to Europeana Digital Collections of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism (21) Online access to artefacts from Greek Public Museums
MICHAEL CULTURE European Network A result of MICHAEL : Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe (26-28) project The Greek portal www.michael-culture.gr is an online catalogue of Greek cultural collections and one of the national portals that contribute to the multilingual European portal www.michael-culture.org HMCT is a member of MICHAEL CULTURE Association
ΑΤΗΕΝΑ Network - Europeana The initiative of the HMCT has been two-fold: To promote the digital collections of the Ministry s public museums, through the development of a national portal To collaborate with other cultural institutions and support them in publishing their collections to Europeana
Digital Collections of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism Online portal collections.culture.gr Launched in June 21 Scientific documentation about artifacts from Greek public museums available online Essential for publishing content to Europeana Faceted filtering based on location (Museum), category, type, date Easy to use web interface provides edit and update functionality
Greek content providers of ATHENA Hellenic Ministry of Culture - Tourism Benaki Museum National Documentation Centre Historical Archive of the Aegean Ergani National Galllery - Alexandos Soutzos Museum National Research Foundation "Eleftherios K. Venizelos" Friends of Music Society, Music Library of Greece "Lilian Voudouri" Museum of the City of Athens - Vouros-Eutaxias Foundation National Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Cycladic Art Research Centre for the Study of Modern Greek History of the Academy Museum of Greek Folk Art Hellenic Maritime Museum National Theatre of Northern Greece Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Centre of Technical Culture - Industrial Museum Ermoupolis *STUDIO - parallel circuit 5 439 417 348 34 158 16 276 3 5 5 43 2 1593 1585 1555 15 126 186 186 13 13 1499 3535 3444 34 4234 4323 45 5 1 15 2 25 3 35 4 45 5 Ingested content Declared content
Contribution to Linked Heritage Continuation through the Linked Heritage project (211-213) Cooperation with network of Greek institutions Dissemination activities to raise awareness and motivate institutions Collaboration, training and support Increasing the content in the collections.culture.gr portal
Contact Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism Directorate of Informatics & Telecommunications Katerina Moutogianni e-mail kmoutogianni@culture.gr, tel: +3 213 1322 343 Maria Kotlida e-mail mkotlida@culture.gr, tel: +3 213 1322 356 Constantinos Chatzichristos (Director) e-mail cchatz@culture.gr, tel: +3 213 1322 124