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.
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.
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.
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.
If you are an organization with cultural content, you can contribute it to SearchCulture.gr and Europeana. This way you will increase the findability and reach of your collections while helping showcase the dynamic of Greek cultural heritage.
675,462
items have been enriched
by EKT with regards to types, subjects and temporal information
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.