In the context of drafting the maturity study, Service executives worked systematically with the Project Contractor to provide a precise description of the required online services and specifications so that the Archaeological Cadastre could interoperate with the information systems of the National Printing House for searching the Government Gazette, with the Greek Land Registry for the control and updating of the real estate subsystem, and with e-adeies system for the facilitation and acceleration of building permit issuance in cases where the Ministry of Culture is involved in the process. The project is funded by the Ministry of Digital Governance and is part of the broader government plan to develop interoperability within the framework of Phase II of the Archaeological Cadastre.
The study of maturity has been completed.
As part of the plan for the integrated digital management and promotion of cultural heritage of the region of Eastern Macedonia-Thrace, as well as the programme for the Recognition and Certification of Museums, the DMNAM provides free use of the MIS of the Digital Collections of Mobile Monuments for museums of contemporary culture interested in entering their collections in the system.
The Didymoteicho Folklore Museum, the Museum of Agricultural and Cultural Heritage of Iasmos, and the Xylagani Cultural Association are collaborating on the program.
In March 2023, a Programme Contract was signed between the Ministry of Culture, the Municipality of Pavlos Melas, the Holy Metropolis of Neapoli and Stavroupoli and the Major Development Agency Thessaloniki (MATH S.A. local government organisation) for the implementation of the project entitled ‘Digital recording of the collection of the forthcoming Museum of Refugee Hellenism within the Pavlou Mela Metropolitan Park’. Within the framework of the project, the Ministry of Culture, through the DMNAM, is financing and supervising the digital recording and documentation work of the forthcoming museum’s collection, enabling use of the MIS free of charge for the continual recording and documentation of its collections, and is providing assistance in applying documentation standards and meeting technical requirements.
Since 2021, the Pavlos and Alexandra Kanellopoulos Museum has been connected to and uses the Integrated Information System of Digital Collections of Movable Monuments for the recording and documentation of its collections.
The aim of the partnership with one of the oldest and most important museums in Greece is to jointly digitise, record, document and publish part of its rich photographic and historical archive.
The archive preserves rare artifacts concerning the history of the museum as well as the history of the protection of medieval monuments in Greece and in areas of Hellenic interest.
Within the framework of the broader programme of the Ministry, the archival material of the Byzantine and Archaeological Museum is correlated to the surviving artifacts of the Historical Archive of Antiquities and Restorations, thus serving as an extremely interesting digital source for the scientific community and general public.
The Directorate for the Management of the National Archive of Monuments cooperates with the Jewish Museum of Greece in the framework of the ‘Jewish Monuments of Greece’ project, mainly in the context of archival and photographic documentation of the depiction of the Jewish presence in Greece.
The Directorate’s partnership with the French School of Athens covers various fields. As part of the development and enrichment of the Archaeological Cadastre, a pilot communication with Chronika (https://chronique.efa.gr/?r=homepage) has been launched and will be made public in 2025. Furthermore, the DMNAM provides open data from the Portal of Digital Collections of Mobile Monuments as part of the ANCHISE program for the development of new digital tools to combat illicit trafficking in antiquities. For further information about the programme,
anchise.eu Link Thessaloniki
The partnership also extends to archives, with the DMNAM participating in the Copies Didactiques research programme.
The Directorate for the Management of the National Archive of Monuments provides the National Aggregator of Cultural Content with the published artifacts generated through digitisation projects. To date, 67,825 monuments have been published in Search Culture. For further information, visit
searchculture.gr
The Directorate for the Curation of the National Archive of Monuments works closely with ODAP on matters of mutual interest concerning the provision of geospatial data and system interoperability.
In May 2023, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Ministry of Culture and ‘Athena’ Research Centre for cooperation in the fields of documentation and promotion of cultural heritage.
The partnership with the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens aims, inter alia, at the joint implementation of actions in the field of cultural informatics. The first step in this partnership is communication between the Archaeological Cadastre and ArchaeoCosmos, the interactive map on the historical geography of the Mediterranean and the Near East from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, created and maintained by the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
http://archaeocosmos.arch.uoa.gr/index.php/el/home/
UoA Link
From May 2024, the data of the Archaeological Cadastre will also be searchable through the Unified Digital Map, which brings together all geospatial and administrative information relating to spatial planning.
