The scope of the service comprising sub-project 2 entitled: “Digitization and Documentation of Material – Development of Digital Services – Publicity Actions” is the production, digitization, documentation and deposition of the cultural material of the institution, in accordance with international good practices and standards, as well as the availability of this material through a platform of web services, which will be developed. In addition, the service will also include the implementation of awareness-raising and promotional actions for the above digital services. The following packages of actions are to be implemented:
- Preliminary Actions that will include the development of the digitisation methodology, the definition of categories of material and metadata, the elaboration of a digital preservation and risk management plan for all information documents, the development of a system of intellectual property rights management procedures, the development of a course for those involved in the preservation of digital services and digital material after the completion of the project and the organisation of a workshop on digitisation (wikipedia).
- Actions for the supply of equipment and off-the-shelf software
- Material digitisation actions that will include the organisation and coordination of the actions of creating primary material, the collection of material, the selection of material and the processing and editing of material.
- Material Documentation actions that will include the creation of metadata, the documentation of the material, the creation of scientific content describing the material and the wikipedia.
- Actions for the procurement/configuration of the documentation management platform, including the procurement and configuration of the documentation management platform and the data input into the platform.
- Actions to develop online services that will include: (a) the creation of a vertically integrated thematic web portal for the display of the material; (b) the creation of a 3D representation application for the “European Museum of Artos” and the “Interactive Rural Folklore Museum of Varnava”; (c) the creation of a virtual museum with spatial, temporal and semantic labelling, (d) the creation of a participatory application for viewing and retrieval of selected material with the possibility of operation on smart devices, (e) the creation of an application for viewing albums of cultural material with the possibility of operation on smart devices and (f) the creation of an application for the visitor to upload multimedia content with geographical and/or temporal reference, with the possibility of operation on smart devices.
- Training actions that will include the implementation of training courses on the production, digitisation, documentation and deposition of material as well as the operation of the web services.
- Publicity – awareness raising activities including social networking through social networks and the organisation of a workshop and the publication of a poster.