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 the cultural heritage of the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, as well as the Museum Recognition and Certification program, the DDEAM provides free use of the OPS of the Digital Collections of Movable Monuments to museums of modern culture that are interested in registering their collections in it. 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 Program Agreement was signed between the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Municipality of Pavlos Melas, the Holy Metropolis of Neapolis and Stavroupolis, and the Greater Thessaloniki Development Agency (MATH SA) -AOTA) for the implementation of the project “Digital recording of the collection of the Museum of Refugee Hellenism, currently under establishment, within the Pavlos Melas Metropolitan Park.” As part of the project, the Ministry of Culture and Sports, through the DDEAM, is funding and supervising the digital recording and documentation of the collection of the museum under construction, provides free use of the OPS for the ongoing recording and documentation of its collections, and assists in the implementation of documentation standards and the fulfillment of 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 purpose of this collaboration with one of the oldest and most important museums in the country is the joint digitization, recording, documentation, and publication of part of its rich photographic and historical archive. This archive contains rare documents relating to the history of the museum, as well as the history of the protection of medieval monuments in Greece and in areas of interest where Hellenism was active. As part of the Ministry’s broader program, the archival material of the Byzantine and Archaeological Museum is linked to the surviving documents in the Historical Archive of Antiquities and Restorations, thus offering an extremely interesting digital resource to the scientific and wider public.
The Directorate for the Curation of the National Archive of Monuments is collaborating with the Jewish Museum of Greece on the project “Jewish Monuments of Greece,” mainly in the context of archival and photographic documentation of the Jewish presence in Greece.
The collaboration with the French School of Athens extends to various fields. As part of the development and enrichment of the Archaeological Cadastre, a pilot communication with Chronika has been launched and is expected to be made public in 2025.
In addition, DDEAM provides open data from the Digital Collections Portal of Movable Monuments as part of the ANCHISE program for the development of new digital tools to combat the illegal trafficking of antiquities. More about the program, anchise.eu
Cooperation is also developing at the level of archives, with the participation of DDEAM in the Copies Didactiques research project.
The Directorate for the Curation of the National Archive of Monuments provides the National Cultural Heritage Repository with the published documents produced by the digitization projects. To date, 67,825 monuments have been published on Search Culture. For more 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 the Athena Research Center for cooperation in the areas of documentation and promotion of cultural heritage.
The collaboration with the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens aims, among other things, at the joint implementation of actions in the field of cultural informatics. The first step in this collaboration is the communication of the Archaeological Cadastre with ArchaeoCosmos, the interactive map for the Historical Geography of the Mediterranean and the Near East from Prehistoric Times to Late Antiquity, created and maintained by the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens.
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.
