“A significant step for the archival and retrieval of important documents and oral sources for the cultural heritage of the cross border region.”

A working meeting of the teams of University of Ioannina and the Public Central Library of Konitsa was held on May 16, 2019 at the premises of the University of Ioannina.

The progress on the development of the new EXPLORAL portal enhanced with OCR, text search, and several other functionalities was presented. An initial prototype of the mobile app was also demonstrated.

WHERE: Conference Room, Ground Floor, Computer Science and Engineering Building

WHEN: 11:00 am, Friday, June 15, 2018

11:00-11:15  Welcome/Introduction, UOI

11:15-12:00 Short presentation of each partner

10’ talks by each partner introducing their group and background and research with respect to Exploral, followed by discussion

University of Ioannina (UOI)

Central Public Library of Konitsa (CPLK)

Municipality of Gjirokastra (MOG)

Municipality of Permet (MOP)

12:00-12:15 Coffee break 

12:15-12:45 EXPLORAL project presentation, UOI

Project structure (WPs, tasks and deliverables)

Financial and administrative issues

12:45-14:00  Action Map,  all partners

        From Balkaneana to Exploral

       Enhancements (crowdsourcing, recommendations, ocr)

       Oral sources (analysis, interviews, documentation, content conversion, indexing)

       The mobile app (customized documentaries, interactive map)

       Digitization of MOP library material

       Renovation of libraries

       Information days and meetings

14:00-15:00 Lunch and discussion

Directions: After entering the University Campus from the main entrance follow the signs to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Τμήμα Μηχανικών Η/Υ και Πληροφορικής)

In the attachments section bellow you can find meeting’s agenda in a pdf and also some of the presented presentations.