Region of Thessaly - partner of the Finch project - will be present at the CrowdHeritage Launch Event (Athens, 11th of February 2020) having the chance to know more about the CrowdHeritage platform from its creators and learn how to reuse it in its own context. This participation is in line with the learning process that will help partner regions of FINCH Project in improving their policies to enhance cultural heritage exploitation, in a dynamic and productive perspective and using financial instruments.
Participants will be able to experience the CrowdHeritage platform directly, participating to a crowd sourcing campaign to improve the metadata quality of the fantastic collection of photos from the personal archive of the internationally known opera bass singer Nicola Zaccaria, which will be showcased to the public for the first time by our host at the Music Library "Lilian Voudouri".
Crowdheritage is an open-source platform developed with the contribution of the EC under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) program. The scope of the platform is to use the power of the crowd in order to improve the metadata quality of digital cultural heritage content stored in Europeana, the European portal for cultural heritage, and in the databases of cultural heritage institutions across Europe.
PROGRAMME
11.00 - 11.30 Registration and coffee
11.30 - 11.35 Welcome and introduction, Stefania Merakou, Music Library "Lilian Voudouri"
11,35 - 12,00 CrowdHeritage platform presentation, Maria Ralli, National Technical University of Athens
12,00 - 12,15 Introduction to the CrowdHeritage campaigns, Marco Rendina, European Fashion Heritage Association
12,15 - 12,30 Overview of the CrowdHeritage platform evaluation, Marie-Veronique Leroi, French Ministry of Culture
12,30 - 13,30 Lunch break
13,30 - 13,45 Introduction to the crowdsourcing campaign on Nicola Zaccaria photo archive, Valia Vraka, Music Library "Lilian Voudouri"
13,45 - 17,10 Crowdsourcing campaign activity
17,10 - 17,30 Award of the top three campaign winners and a view on the future of the CrowdHeritage platform, Corinne Szteinsznaider, Michael Culture Association
Photo Credit: by Jimmy Teoh from Pexels