The Digital Curation Unit

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The mission of the Digital Curation Unit (DCU), established in 2007, is to conduct research, develop technologies and applications, provide services and training, and act as a national focus point in the field of digital curation.

Events

Latest news

03-09-2024

Translighthouses Community Website: Nature-Based Solutions in Action

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Discover the TRANS-Lighthouses Community Website, a dedicated platform supporting innovative Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) across urban, rural, forestry, and other environments.

20-08-2024

DARIAH Theme Funding Call 2024-2026: Mistakes

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The open thematic call for funding small research projects for 2024-2026 by the European research infrastructure DARIAH is on air!

19-07-2024

Job opportunity in Digital Humanities

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Job opportunity in Digital Humanities!

18-04-2024

ATRIUM: Transnational Access Scheme Grants

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Fully funded training visits to European institutions in the Digital Humanities, in the framework of the European project ATRIUM.

17-10-2023

4CH project users' needs survey

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Help 4CH project to identify users’ needs. Take part in the survey by 29 October 2023.

02-06-2023

"The 'Digital Landscape in Greece' Web Survey" poster presentation in DARIAH Annual Event 2023

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The Digital Landscape project, coordinated by Digital Curation Unit, participates in the DARIAH 2023 Annual Meeting, Budapest, 6-9 June, with the poster presentation “The ‘Digital Landscape in Greece’ Web Survey”.

DCU is undertaking research and development projects, in collaboration with research, governmental and private sector organizations, relevant to the broader field of digital curation.

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    (Ελληνικά) Εμβληματική δράση ΕΛΙΔΕΚ "Ψηφιακό Τοπίο"
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    Digital Curation Services

    The project Digital Curation Services supports the advancement of research and development efforts according to DCU’s research directions and work programme.

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    ATRIUM
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    TRANS-Lighthouses

Tools and Systems

MORe Aggregator

MORe Aggregator

The Metadata & Object Repository (MoRe) is an easy and powerful tool to aggregate information. Harvest metadata from multiple sources in multiple schemas. Validate, clean and normalize large amounts of content. Transform into a common schema and publish to multiple targets.

Mopseus Digital Library

Mopseus Digital Library

The Mopseus digital library is a flexible and powerful digital library. Design and use any metadata schema, define taxonomies and integrate them with cataloguing.

Latest Publications

The Greek Landscape of Digital Humanities Initiatives.
Dritsou, Vicky
Presentation at Fiesole Retreat 2022, Athens, April 5 , 2022.
Aggregation and Curation of Historical Archive Information.
Constantopoulos, Panos; Dritsou, Vicky; Ilvanidou, Maria; Chroni, Alexandra
In: Karagiannis, Dimitris; Lee, Moonkun; Hinkelmann, Knut; Utz, Wilfrid (Ed.): Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling, Chapter 23, Pages: 523-540, Springer, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-030-93546-7.
DH Goes Viral.
Barker, Elton; Benardou, Agiatis; Giorgio, Sara Di; Dritsou, Vicky; Dombrowski, Quinn; Felicetti, Achille; Gardikas, Katerina; Garnett, Vicky; Ilvanidou, Maria; Irollo, Alba; Floch, Justine Le; Meghini, Carlo; Mikros, George; Papaki, Eliza; Richardson, Lorna; Schreibman, Susan; Terras, Melissa; Tsakonas, Giannis
2021, ISBN: 978-618-85875-0-2.

Education

Training on digital curation practices as well as on specific tools and systems is an important aspect of the Digital Curation Unit’s activities. The Digital Curation Unit, as a training provider, often undertakes educational programs either in the context of a project or by assignment.

This section features the training programs, seminars, summer schools and all other educational activities that the DCU has undertaken in the past or is planning for the immediate future.

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