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SearchCulture.gr is the Greek National Aggregator for Cultural Heritage Content, a cultural digital space developed by EKT that aggregates Greek Digital Cultural Content produced by institutions through public funding.

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Basic interoperability standards for the inclusion of collections in the National Aggregator of Digital Cultural Resources (October 2029)

EKT has recently published a a new guide is aimed at content providers and summarizes all the necessary interoperability and quality specifications for their content delivery systems and their available metadata and files that enable their collections to be published in SearchCulture. gr and in Europeana.

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Interoperability and content quality specifications by EKT for publishing on-line digital cultural content (October 2020)

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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More than 467,000  items of SearchCulture.gr
are provided to Europeana

SearchCulture.gr, as the Greek National Aggregator, contributes to the European Digital Library Europeana. Until now EKT has contributed to Europeana with more than 467,000 items from 45 institutions.

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EKT enriches and homogenizes the aggregated content with respect to types, subjects and chronological information. Therefore, the content of SearchCulture.gr is been classified to a compact and balanced set of types, thematic categories and historical periods and is enriched with homogenized chronologies.

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thematic exhibitions  |  explore the stories that emerge through SearchCulture.gr collections

Thessaloniki, a multicultural metropolis

Discover 130 years spanning the end of the Ottoman Empire and its integration in the modern Greek state

Delphic Festivals

An attempt to revive the Delphic Ideals

Greek Customs: 190 years of history

The history of the modern Greek state through its’ customs service

Seascape painting

Seascapes and beaches in modern Greek painting

The world of archaeological digs

100 years of archaeological excavations in Greece in photographs

Mythology

Mythological iconography from antiquity to present day

Stage and costume design in modern Greek theater

100 years of scenography in modern Greek theater

Byzantine jewelry

The incomparable art of Byzantine jewelry

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item of the day

Collection: Pandektis: Modern Greek Visual Prosopography
Painting | 1923
Velmos Nikos

Κόντογλους Φώτης

Απεικόνιση αναπαργωγής: κλισέ πίνακα

Institution:  Institute of Historical Research (IHR/NHRF)

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