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SearchCulture.gr is the Greek Aggregator for Cultural Heritage Content, a cultural digital space developed by EKT in collaboration with Digital Convergence. It aggregates Greek Digital Cultural Content produced by institutions through public funding.


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New interoperability and content quality specifications by EKT for publishing on-line digital cultural content (March 2019)


EKT has recently published a new version of specifications to be followed by digitization projects. This specifications document constitutes up-to-date guidelines that will help beneficiaries of new digitization projects to produce and publish interoperable, qualitative and re-usable digital cultural content.


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The Web API and Linked Data: two new ways to use data from SearchCulture.gr


SearchCulture.gr now has two new ways of publishing data. The Web API allows third-party applications to search for and display data aggregated here. Linked Data is a publishing approach which allows data integration and use.


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SearchCulture.gr, as the Greek National Aggregator, contributes to the European Digital Library Europeana. Until now EKT has contributed to Europeana with more than 320,000 items from 43 institutions.


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Collection: Digital Pylia
Archaeological object | 1600 - 1000 B.C.
crater-base

The crater-stand consists in a clay vase with three wide and flat ‘legs’, bearing simple floral patterns. The upper part of the ‘crater-base’, meaning the base receiving the crater, is hollow and decorated by a double, dark blue line.

Institution:  The Ephorate of Antiquities of Messinia

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