Repurpose, Experience, Taste and Rethink Culture

An interesting one-day event for culture discoverability and knowledge exchange, with focus on creative reuse and crowdsourcing of our cultural heritage.

What

The event aims to generate new perspectives and facilitate the creative re-use of  cultural heritage and associated metadata made available through online digital collections within a framework of creative experimentation and novel dialogue between multidisciplinary sectors,  explore the potential of crowdsourcing as a means of promoting increased public participation in core tasks such as collecting, describing, categorizing, or curating heritage collections.

How

During the event, there will be a mix of inspiring talks and lively discussions on cultural heritage discoverability and creative reuse,  community engagement and the implicit business potential that lies in this. The newly founded  collaborative WITH platform will be demonstrated via focused presentations and showcased with applications to different spaces: Audio-Visual, Food & Drink, Museums & Art, Smart Cities.

Who

We are seeking for an enthusiastic audience who want to bring  along their innovative ideas. That could be   all sectors of the creative industries, from content providers to producers, exhibitors, artists and makers of cultural/creative content, publishers, broadcasters, telecoms and distributors of digital content, IT and marketing experts, everyone with a creative, practical or strategic interest in  culture.

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PROGRAM

REPURPOSE, EXPERIENCE, TASTE and RETHINK CULTURE
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Morning coffee

Registration, coffee and networking until the event starts officially.

30 min

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Session 1: Repurpose culture – Creative reuse

Moderator: Stefanos Kollias

This session focuses on creative reuse and all the different  ways we can access and reuse the available  digital  content.

1h 30mins

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Coffee break

15mins

Session 2: Experience culture – A tour in European Projects

Moderator: Vassilis Tzouvaras

This session demonstrates the results and the lessons learnt form Europeana related projects as experienced in EUscreen, Europeana Sounds and Europeana Fashion.

1h 15mins

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Lunch

1h

Lounge

Session 3: Taste culture – Food and Drink

Moderator: Alexandra Nikiforidou

This session provides a taste of culture by exploring the paradigm of food and drink in digital culture.

1h 15 mins

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Coffee break

15mins

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Session 4: Rethink culture – Museums and Art

Moderator:Natasa Sofou
This session aims to explore ways of creatively reusing digital cultural content from the museums and art field.

1h 30 mins

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End of Workshop

0mins

Stefanos Kollias

Opening Words

Ioannis Vassiliou, director of ICCS-NTUA ( Institute of Communication and Computer Systems), and Stefanos Kolias, director of ISCIL ( Intelligent Systems, Content & Interaction Laboratory), welcomes all attendees and address the objectives and topics of the event.

5mins

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Stefanos Kollias

Stefanos Kollias is a Professor of NTUA and since 1977 and director of Intelligent Systems, Content and Interaction Laboratory (ISCI Lab) . He is involved in many cultural heritage initiatives and active in the Europeana developments and many related projects.

http://www.image.ece.ntua.gr/lab/stefanos/

Alexis Panagiotopoulos

Open data, core element of NSRF (ΕΣΠΑ) administration and prerequisite for NSRF projects

15mins

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Alexis Panagiotopoulos

Ministry of Economy, NSRF

Vassilis Tzouvaras

The age of reuse and user engagement: Enrichment and participation in digital culture

The past, the present and the future of digital cultural heritage. Creative reuse of digital content and the role of creative industries.

20mins

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Vassilis Tzouvaras

Vassilis is active in the Europeana developments and many related projects (Athena, , Euscreen, Europeana Sounds, Europeana Food and Drink, ); He is leading the development of the MINT and WITH platforms.

http://www.image.ntua.gr/~tzouvaras/

Ioanna-Ourania Stathopoulou & Haris Georgiadis

Unified search of digital cultural content: Searching culture

To enhance the user experience and search and exploring capabilities of a Digital Cultural Aggregator Portal, the content must be homogenized and subject to validation, data clearing and semantic enrichment.  Towards this task, EKT has developed an ecosystem consisting of an Aggregator of Cultural Heritage Content (http://searchculture.gr), a Metadata and Digital File Validation System and an Information System for Semantic Vocabularies and Contextual Enrichment (http://semantics.gr).

20mins

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Ioanna-Ourania Stathopoulou & Haris Georgiadis

Ioanna & Haris are both senior software engineers at National Documentation Center.

Nasos Drosopoulos

Communicating culture WITH an interoperable platform for creative reuse of digital cultural heritage

An introduction to the Europeana Space project activities and the application of WITH for creative reuse.

20mins

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Nasos Drosopoulos

Nassos is currently involved in research activities and projects concerning metadata modeling and aggregation, interoperability and access to digital cultural heritage content and, semantic web technologies.

http://www.image.ece.ntua.gr/~ndroso/

Arne Stabenau, Nikos Simou

Watching and listening to culture: the cases of EUscreen & Europeana Sounds projects

Facilitating the use of Europe's audiovisual heritage, contextualization of audiovisual archival materials and people engagement. Promoting sound heritage: around the world with one quarter of a million sounds.

25mins

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Marco Rendina

Digital cultural heritage with style: the Europeana Fashion project

How to bring together more than 30 public and private archives and museums, coming from 13 European countries, in order to collect and give public access to more than 750.000 high quality digital fashion objects, available for all to enjoy and re-use.

20mins

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Marco Rendina

Marco is an IT specialist and senior project manager. He is the founder and CTO of the Europeana Fashion International Association.

https://it.linkedin.com/in/marcorendina

Dimitris Gavrilis

Do you want to find out MORe?

Find out about how you can enrich your data using MORe: a curation-oriented metadata aggregator. Create your own enrichment plans that best suit your data. Choose among a number of readily available enrichment micro-services and configure them without any programming knowledge.  

20mins

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Dimitris Gavrilis

Dimitris is a Scientific Associate at the Digital Curation Unit (DCU) of Athena Research Centre.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitris-gavrilis-48716b7

Panel Discussion

10mins

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Vasia Pierrou & Eleni Blouchou

The Europeana Food and Drink project and the Attica Wine Trail | The experience of the Domaine Vassiliou Winery.

Introducing the  Europeana Food and Drink program and its achievements, emphasizing at the importance of the reuse of European culinary cultural heritage content.

20mins

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Vasia Pierrou & Eleni Blouchou

Vasia is Project & Communications Manager at PostScriptum, in charge of public and private sector projects.

Eleni is involved with the development of existing and new products and services by defining their communication strategy in Greek and international markets.

Philippos Mazarakis

The value of providing content

The National Historical Museum is now in the digital era and is exploring the potential of openness in cultural data management. In this context and while Europeana Food and Drink doesn't appear to be part of the themes that would interest a traditional National Museum, today we try to expand the thematic spectrum of our collections and reinterpret our assets.

20mins

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Philippos Mazarakis

Filippos has been an associate of the European Committee in the Cultural Sector and since 1998 he has been working at the National Historical Museum. He is the coordinator of the digital activities of the museum.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippos-mazarakis-ainian-85736a35

Efi Agathonikou

Digital footprint of the National Gallery

Presenting National Gallery's experience and benefits gained from participating in the enrichment of digital content contributed to Europeana.

10mins

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Efi Agathonikou

Mrs. Efie Agathonikou is a Collections Manager at the National Galler, she has designed the game "Amateur Curator", which is integrated into the Gallery website.

Panel discussion

15 min

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Prodromos Tsiavos

A multi-modal approach for the development of Open Educational Material | The Case of the Onassis Cultural Centre

The re-use of open educational resources is often approached as a single trajectory and platform process. However, practice shows that their actual re-use happens in a rather fragmented and often anarchic fashion, which, nevertheless makes use of standard platforms that operate as islands of stability in a sea of constantly changing modes of content reuse. The objective of this talk is to show how the use of wikipedia, standard online platforms and open source software can be deployed in order to produce a consistent digital strategy and experience with regards to the re-use of open digital content.  

20mins

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Prodromos Tsiavos

Prodromos is the Head of Digital Development at the Onassis Cultural Centre and a Senior Research Fellow at The Media Institute at University College London (UCL)/ BBC. He is is chairing the Board of the Greek Industrial Property Organisation.

Kostas Konstantinidis

MuseumPlus and the reuse of cultural content

MuseumPlus is vital to the virtuous life cycle of cultural data - with more than 450.000 Greek collection exhibits it is the most widely used collection management system in Greece. Many applications can be built upon MuseumPlus curated content.

20mins

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Kostas Konstantinidis

Kostas Konstantinidis is the founder and chief executive of PostScriptum. He has unique experience and proven ability in project management and cultural projects. He firmly believes in the effective application of digital technology in culture and its empowerment through it.

Heracles Papatheodorou

City Tales | Ubiquitous culture and cities

The way we experience cities, either as locals or tourists, has changed dramatically over the last years, through the overview effect brought by location-aware devices and the social media boom. Let us explore how we can further enhance this experience and how the citytales app works towards this direction.

20mins

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Heracles Papatheodorou

Heracles is a practicing architect and designer. He is a co-founder of City Tales, a startup that develops a mobile application making location-based cultural content accessible.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/heracles

Andreas Fatouros

Clio Muse | Appetite for culture

Clio Muse is an awarded tour-guide application for indoor tours and city walks, that curates cultural stories according to a specific methodology. Our customers upload and administer their content themselves. It is an efficient and low-cost tech channel for cultural content distribution. Clio Muse won the 1st prize during the Europeana Open Innovation Challenge 2015 in Rome and recently partnered with the Athens International Airport. www.cliomuseapp.com

30mins

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Andreas Fatouros

Andreas is the co-founder and art Specialist and researcher at Clio. He runs the only blog for Art Preservation in Greece.

Panel Discussion & Wrap up

10mins

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SPEAKERS

An incredible group of researchers and creatives will provide you insights and pull back the curtain on the creative process of aggregation, reuse and share of cultural material.
Complete list of speakers will be announced soon.

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Stefanos Kollias

National Technical University of Athens

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Vassilis Tzouvaras

National Technical University of Athens

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Nassos Drosopoulos

National Technical University of Athens

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Nikos Simou

National technical University of Athens

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Arne Stabenau

National Technical University of Athens

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Marco Rendina

Europeana Fashion International Association

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Kostas Konstantinidis

PostScriptum

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Dimitris Gavrilis

Athena Research Institute

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Filippos Mazarakis-Ainian

National Historical Museum

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Prodromos Tsiavos

Onassis Cultural Centre

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Efie Agathonikou

Greek National Gallery

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Andreas Fatouros

Clio Muse

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Heracles Papatheodorou

City Tales

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Alexandra Nikiforidou

PostScriptum

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Vasia Pierrou

PostScriptum

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Ioanna Ourania Stathopoulou

National Documentation Center

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Haris Georgiadis

National Documentaion Center

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Eleni Blouchou

BONELLO TRADING Ltd

venue

INNOVATHENS

Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Technopolis City of Athens.

Technopolis City of Athens
100, Pireos str.
118 54 Gazi - Athens

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