Perhaps the largest online collection of open digital data for culture and research will begin to be available to the National Documentation Center (EKT) in 2014. This is a series of actions financed by the OP "Digital Convergence" (NSPA) and aimed at creation of a common information environment for culture and research.
As mentioned by the ESF Director, Evi Sahini, the open data action is making rewarding cultural content truly accessible to the end user, as services for the accumulation of digital cultural resources will allow the effective exploitation of the cultural wealth that is or will be digitized and This is documented by the cultural organizations of the country that have established a framework for cooperation with the ESF. This is a plethora of reputable cultural collections, archaeological resources , Movable monuments, music collections, films etc.
"The ESF develops those services that will allow the search for and finding of reputable digital cultural content from one point, simply, easily and without cost to the user-creator. The open digital cultural content services of the ESF enable digital cultural resources to be made available in an interoperable, reusable, and clear use manner, "he explains.
«Το σημαντικότερο είναι ότι προέρχονται από φορείς εγνωσμένου κύρους και ότι ο χρήστης θα μπορεί να έχει access σε σχετικές πληροφορίες στην πηγή τους, δηλαδή στον ίδιο τον φορέα προέλευσής τους. Πρόκειται δηλαδή για μια πληροφορία υψηλής quality που αναδεικνύει τον ρόλο, τη σημασία και το έργο των ελληνικών φορέων πολιτισμού που συμμετέχουν στη δράση αυτή» σημειώνει η κυρία Σαχίνη.
The action of prestigious open cultural data of the ESF aims to provide support to at least 100 culture players to open more than 2 million of their digital cultural resources to the public. Organizations will use international standards and interoperate with each other, the ESF and international platforms such as Europeana, the European portal for culture.
According to Mrs. Sahini, open data in the field of culture and research is the raw material with which innovative services, new applications or even business can be built models that can strengthen the sustainability of cultural organizations and give impetus to the Greek cultural and creative industry.
To make this a reality, cultural data that is currently "trapped" in older systems should be highlighted. An attempt will be made to discover data that is digitized but is not in a form that allows its exploitation or reuse.
In addition, these data will be documented in such a way that they are searchable by the search engines and increase the traffic of the collections, both natural and digital, which they describe or which they are part of.
"Our intention is to allow access to raw data so that it can be exploited in productive and creative ways. This new use is a key element of the open data and innovation that they bring, and is fully in line with the ESF's statute as a provider of knowledge-intensive services that boost growth and innovation, "he continues.
Finally, as Mrs. Sahini mentions, in addition to culture, other sectors are also available for extracting useful data, important for the formulation of development policies, such as the statistics of positive sciences, health sciences, etc. "In the era of open knowledge, the role of a National Documentation Center is to serve the science of science, culture and innovation policy-making based on measurable and open data. And that's exactly what we're doing," he concludes.
