Discover our research projects and initiatives to promote open data
ARXIVE revolutionizes the documentation, analysis, and dissemination of cultural heritage objects by developing cutting-edge tools and methodologies integrated into the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage. Addressing fragmented on-site workflows and the challenges of preserving both tangible and intangible cultural assets, ARXIVE introduces a semantic archival system that provides advanced solutions for annotating evolving digital twins. These tools empower cultural heritage professionals to create semantically rich, context-aware documentation while streamlining processes for research, preservation, and dissemination.
The UPCAST project provides a set of universal, reliable, transparent and user-friendly data market plugins for automating data sharing and processing agreements between businesses, public administrations and citizens. The project plugins will enable stakeholders in the common European data space to design and develop data exchange and transaction guarantees.
The "Non-profits & Media advocating for good!" project aims to strengthen civil society advocacy and its oversight role in Greece. To achieve this, the project offers an experiential training and collaboration framework, benefiting 32 media representatives and 32 non-profit staff in 4 cities in Greece, selected based on having vibrant NGO communities and media, as well as significant social issues, in order to co-create and jointly implement advocacy activities.
ENTICE is a Knowledge Alliance project for Higher Education co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. It aims to use co-creation methodologies to build a sustainable creation pipeline for medical experiential content that brings together a network of academics, medical educators and industrial content creators.
An online platform supporting local government organizations in implementing and drafting open and participatory budgets, with a unified structure and features, designed for all citizens, media, non-governmental organizations and the organizations themselves.
A catalog of geospatial risk data aimed at empowering the resilience of the Municipality of Thessaloniki.
The Summer School of Data is one of the actions of the Greek chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation, which is aimed at scientists, students, educators, journalists and health professionals. The main areas of interest are the utilization of open data in education, journalism and health. The Summer School of Data program includes short lectures, but mainly practical "hands-on" sessions where participants will use the tools presented on their personal laptops in an atmosphere of collaboration and open creation.
National Library of Greece Authority Terms Development Application. The purpose of the project was to create a set of applications for the collaborative cataloging of the Authority Terms of the National Library of Greece in the form of Linked Data. The authority terms, originally formulated in MARC21, were imported into a customized version of the Wikibase platform, where they are edited and linked by NLG catalogers. They are then published as linked data, according to the RDA standard and made available in a user-friendly view.