PostScriptum won the 1st prize in the international competition for the destination brand of the Cultural Route "Trilogy of Attica: Elefsina-Athens-Lavrio" on behalf of the Region of Attica by the association DIAZOMA.

177 Greek Women work together to weave with needle and thread, personalities & events of the Greek History.

A unique exhibition celebrating collectivity and female cooperation as a symbolic participation in the celebration of 200 years of national independence and creation. 

An exhibition produced and digitally curated by PostScriptum.

A community of people who love the island Kythnos engage in researching, writing, narrating, and photographing the place. 

PostScriptum & the Municipality of Kythnos initiate a collaborative action promoting the place and destination through the world’s  largest open encyclopedia. 

In 2021 the Alekos Fassianos Estate started its collaboration with PostScriptum. 

With the digitization of the archive & part of the collections to create a digital catalog raisonne, we carried out the research & development of an extensive study with recommendations, best practices, strategic ideas for the initial business and communication steps for the Alekos Fassianos Estate & Museum.

PostScriptum joins the effort for the promotion & open access to important cultural sites, with a unique cultural sponsorship for the most important museum of the country in the framework of the National Action Plan for people with disabilities.

PostScriptum collaborates with the Museum of Modern Greek Art of the Municipality of Rhodes in the context of the Museum's digital transformation. The project aims to enhance the presence of the Museum & its permanent collection through the employment of digital technology. 

The contemporary cultural institution is a space of experience, interaction and diffusion of entertaining knowledge.

It is an open, accessible organization spreading to the physical as well as the digital space, fulfilling the requirements of on-site and on-line visitors. Digital technology expands the interpretation, enhances the experience and transcends time & spatial limits.

PostScriptum travelled to Olympia to complete shootings for high end digital material to be displayed at the experience silo inside the venue of the Winter Olympics at Beijing

PostScriptum is undertaking, on behalf of the Μuseum of Asia Minor Hellenism “Filio Chaidemenou” the digitization and online promotion of its collection. 

Art-pedia project: a series of workshops (editathons) in the Greek Wikipedia on the  field of fine arts in Greece spanning from the establishment of the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) to today

PostScriptum invited to Voices of Culture:(RE)-ENGAGING DIGITAL AUDIENCES IN THE CULTURAL SECTORS - IMPROVING AUDIENCE DATA.

PostScriptum and 34 other final participants will take part in a structured dialogue with the European Commission discussing the involvement and development of digital audiences in culture.

Α competition of collaborative encyclopedia entries for Wikipedia.

The 200-year anniversary of the Greek Revolution of 1821 as well as Wikipedia’s twentieth birthday are a double inspiration for the Panhellenic School Competition for Encyclopedia Entry Writing, co organized with the ONASSIS FOUNDATION and the ONASSIS LIBRARY, GFOSS, the General States archives,  the Wikipedia School in Greece. The programme is supported by the Ministry of education & religious affairs & the National Documentation Centre.

The conference CollectionCare: New Challenges in Preventive Conservation, Predictive Analysis and Environmental Monitoring will be held in December 2021 in the framework of the EU’s Horizon2020 CollectionCare project.

The core objective of the PAGODE project was to contribute towards the generation of a rich user experience, and high audience engagement with Europeana, by proposing a thematic approach to the aggregation, curation and presentation of Chinese cultural related content that is hosted in European museums and cultural heritage institutions.

The 200-year anniversary of the Greek Revolution of 1821 and Wikipedia’s twentieth birthday are a double inspiration for the Panhellenic School Competition for Encyclopedia Entry Writing. The Competition is organized by ONASSIS FOUNDATION and ONASSIS LIBRARY in collaboration with Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS), PostScriptum and the General State Archives, under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of EDUCATION and Religious Affairs.

Greek Crafts are reborn & evolving 

Our heritage traits are transmuting into a national opportunity for development that
opens new jobs and introduces greek aesthetics to the world.

PostScriptum drives its effort & strategy into this direction in collaboration with the 
committee of Greek Crafts, a joint body created by the Ministry of Culture & Sports & the Ministry of Development & Investments. 

Welcome to the world of Greek Crafts.

Greek Crafts are present

The new face of Greek Crafts was presented at the 85th Thessaloniki International Fair, Kiosk 13th with a state- of- the-art live display of contemporary artworks that connect crafts with art, design and fashion, thus by unveiling its dynamics, functionality and the potential positive economic impact that it can have for Greece, the country’s branding and the empowering of local communities & economies.

The design and development of the ECHO II: Traditions in Transition website (http://echo-ii.eu//) has been completed and we are pleased to announce that it is now live.

We are pleased to announce you the PAGODE Final Conference. The conference “PAGODE: Discovering Chinese Cultural Heritage in Europeana” will be held online on 23rd and 24th of September 2021.The conference is organized by the PAGODE Project, under the coordination of KIK-IRPA and hosted online by the University of Ljubljana.

We are looking to hire a visionary COO to oversee our company’s operational processes, and to ensure a superb customer experience. The COO will optimize our company's operating capabilities, employ strategies to maximize customer satisfaction, and manage marketing initiatives. The COO will assist in compiling the company's budget, financial reports, and control financial policies and procedures. You will team up with management to implement business strategies. To ensure success you should have a clear understanding of our company’s core values and culture.

The PAGODE project, the first European digital culture project focusing on Chinese culture and responding to the special conditions of the COVID-19 outbreak during the last year launches the PAGODE Festival, a series of short online events open to all.

PostScriptum completed the production and coordination of the contemporary art exhibition «Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis. In the Belt of Change» with Greece participating as an honoured guest country in the exhibition The Tides of the Century - 2020 International Art Exhibition that takes place in Ocean Flower Island, in Hainan island, a new economic and tourist destination in South China.

China in Europe. This is the first European digital heritage project with a Chinese Epicenter. Having completed a year of implementation PAGODE-Europeana China project has completed a prime accomplishment. This project, aimed at creating a dedicated thematic space that highlights and celebrates Chinese heritage in Europe, officially launches a feature page, today, April 4th, showcasing a variety of Chinese and China-related cultural heritage items and resources from European cultural institutions such as museums, libraries and photographic archives

Inter Alia seeks for three (3) artists that reside in Greece and work in the fields of painting, sculpture, graphic design, fashion design, craftwork, and mural, to participate in the first three (3) art residencies of the ECHO II: Traditions in Transition project (one artist in each art residency). The artworks produced will be exhibited in the countries of each residence that is Hungary, Bulgaria and North Macedonia.  

#ECHOII #TraditionsInTransition #EuropeForCulture

PostScriptum was invited among 46 finalists that will take participate “Voices of Culture”, a Structured Dialogue between the European Commission and the cultural sector. Postscriptum will share expertise, best practices and knowledge at the "‘Culture and the Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges and Opportunities’" session.

PostScriptum, in collaboration with Photoconsortium and Europeana organizes the PAGODE Technical workshop. Originally this was a  project event focused on dataset enrichment and initially scheduled to take place in Athens, due to the covid-crisis this event was expanded and transformed in an online gathering on the 26th of October.

A bold new series "Small Lessons on a Large World" with Maria Efthimiou, Professor of History at the University of Athens, premieres on VOULI (HELLENIC PARLIAMENT) TV next Saturday, October 3.

The series, consisting of 54 hourly episodes, will be screened every Saturday at 18:00 and repeated every Friday at 20:00.

The World History lectures, given by Maria Efthimiou on a pro bono basis, were presented all over Greece from 2006 to 2018 to packed halls attracting large and varied audiences, representing all ages and educational backgrounds.  These same lectures will now reach the wider public through a televised program.

PAGODE Project: Europe’s Chinese Collections uploaded to Europeana. PAGODE project will contribute to generating rich user experience and high audience engagement with Europeana, the European digital library, by proposing a thematic approach in the aggregation, curation and presentation of Chinese cultural heritage preserved in Europe.

The Acropolis Museum is using MuseumPlus for the management and digital preservation of its collections already from 2014.

Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP) and Greek Archival Company (ΕΑΕ) coordinated a very interesting workshop entitled “New applications of archival description”. The main focus of the presentation was the AtoM (Access to Memory), an open source archival description software, which meets the needs of the users and covers the current technological requirements. Moreover, the integration of the Greek translation to AtoM was discussed.

CollectionCare is a EU project that brings together high level expertise and a consortium of leading academic, technological partners as well as internationally acclaimed museums. It is financed by Horizon 2020, the biggest EU Research and Innovation program.

Onassis Foundation opens to the public the digital collection of poems manuscripts, hand-compiled printed editions, prose literary works, articles, studies and notes by the poet, as well as his personal archive, including correspondence, texts and photographs. Today, everyone can discover the rich archival material, visiting the digital collection with more than 2.000 digitized archival documents.

Aiming to aesthetically upgrade the zones of Athens International Airport's “El. Venizelos”, PostScriptum has completed the project by creating captivating key visuals, video projections and three-dimensional installations, that will engage passing by passengers from zone 1 to zone 5 of the AIA.

PostScriptum, in collaboration with Encodica and Tool, took over the redesign and development of the official national portal for Greek wine, of the National Interprofessional Organisation of Vine and Wine (EDOAO), the only organization in Greece on the vine and wine, representing the majority of private wine producers and wine products. 

PostScriptum launches the new version of MuseumPlus by zetcom, an application server, web-based application with interfaces based on HTML5 and compliant with an array of global documentation standards ( SPECTRUM, CIDOC CRM, Dublin Core, LIDO etc).

Discover the life and work of the esteemed artist of the Generation of 1930s through a unique exhibition with personal touch at Stavros Niarchos Cultural Centre. 

MuseumPlus, Europe's No 1 collection management software, represented exclusively by PostScriptum in Southeastern Europe, chose Greece to celebrate its 20th birthday.
zetcom. Company members from offices around the world (Bern, Berlin, Paris, Barcelona, Denver, Athens & Singapore)  came together in Tinos, one of the most beautiful Cyclades in October 2018

Thesswiki, already a successful project the last 3 years, not only fostered intercultural dialogue but also supported the creative reuse of cultural content.Thesswiki was awarded at the 2nd Digital Heritage Best Practice Competition, which took place in China for its creative design showcasing that small initiatives can mean big wins.

PostScriptum on the road again, for the participation to the Cultural Heritage Conservation and Digitization, organized by THID Tsinghua Heritage Institution for Digitalization in Beijing (CHCD). 

PostScriptum was invited to chair the Greek panel, constituted of internationally acclaimed speakers from the National Technical University of Athens and the National Library of Greece. 

PostScriptum has the pleasure to invite you at the opening of the Painting and Calligraphy Exhibition of the Xiangtan City Artists starring the top Chinese 20th century artist Qi Baishi which will take place at The Ziller artspace (Vasilikis 1 str., Agia Eirini Square) on Monday 26 March 2018 at 16:00.

The proceedings of the scientific conference "PS Value Talks Digital Sustainability / New Perspectives for Museums and Cultural Organizations" which took place on 22 and 23 May 2015, are now available online.

Digital Strategy for Culture, a study that PostScriptum has implemented on behalf of DIAZOMA Association and sponsored by the OTE Group is now available online.

PostScriptum was invited among 34 finalists that will take participate “Voices of Culture”, a Structured Dialogue between the European Commission and the cultural sector.

PostScriptum is happy to announce a new partnership with the National Theatre of Northern Greece to promote the theatre’s digital presence reflecting its overall l strategy and values aimed at bringing the city’s residents even closer to culture and the theatre.

PostScriptum had  the pleasure to participate in the panel discussion about gaming in museums, in the framework of the two-day event  GiG → Edu. The two-day event was organized by INNOVATHENS as part of the "Get into Games" (GiG) activities, a series of activities relative to games, which are organized with the support of the General Secretariat for Information and Communication (GSG).

The Hellenic Chamber of Hotels has selected PostScriptum to re-design the ‘Greek Breakfast’ portal with a new orientation to include potential visitors to Greek Hotels.  What could be more appealing than a journey of the senses through a variety of sumptuous local delicacies made from pure Greek products, all at the breakfast table.

The ‘Greek Breakfast’ is an initiative by the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels to foster the participating Greek Hotels by promoting the gastronomic diversity of the country through the breakfast specialties of local destinations.

PostScriptum will redesign  the website http://www.greekbreakfast.gr/ to address not only professionals in the hotel market but also prospective guests.

PostScriptum announces the official launch of #ConnectingYouth. The project aims to to establish an encompassing dialogue on youth, education and digital policy among partner organizations and schools from four EU countries (Croatia,Greece,Germany and ltaly). The consortium consists of 5 partner organizations and it is financed by the European Union, under the Erasmus+ Programme. 

With the release of a movie produced by Feelgood Entertainment acting as an impetus, we invite you to the event "Painting, Cinema, Animation & Emerging Technologies: an enigmatic relationship" organized by Michael Cacoyannis Foundation and the production firm, Steficon. The event will take place at the premises of Michael Cacoyannis Foundation this Friday 3rd of March at 5pm. 

Dive into Europe’s story, and be part of it! My House of European History is a shared project about testimonies on Europe.

Thesswiki continues with another workshop session, this time in the context of the exhibition entitled “Divided Memories 1940-1950. The distance between history and experience” powered by Goetthe Insitute in collaboration with the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki, the Macedonian Museum of Modern Art and the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin.

A new partnership was launched for the SOFIA Foundation and PostScriptum. SOFIA Foundation features rare and unique collections covering a wide range of Arts and Sciences. Its purpose is the promotion, exhibition and exploitation of collections, contributing to the expansion of the study and research. It also attracts academics, researchers, collectors, friends of the arts and letters.

This year is a milestone in PostScriptum’s journey marking 25 years in the company of culture! It’s a chance to look back and to the future. The focus of PostScriptum’s "25 Years Celebration", is a series of 25 "silver stories". We have sellected six stories representing landmark moments on our journey to share with our international friends.

Enjoy!

The first phase of Design Digital Strategy for the National Gallery - Alexander Soutzos Museum is completed. The project aims at bringing the organization closer to the new requirements of its audience through the use of digital technology in all aspects of its operation.

PostScriptum celebrated 25 years and celebrated with you! With our customers, our partners and our friends! See here some of the birthday party photos that took place in the great Piree and ...expect the unexpected!

PostScriptum 25 years in the company of Culture

#PS25years

The 3d International Conference of Europeana Space started yesterday in Berlin and concludes today with the presence of all partners including PostScriptum. It is a concertation meeting where EU projects and other similar initiatives in the field of cultural heritage can meet, present and share outcomes and knowledge, and also plan joint actions and initiatives.

The European Mediterranean Conferences (EuroMed) is a biannual event organized by Digital Heritage Research Lab of Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) and has become a regular worldwide milestone on Cultural Heritage interdisciplinary research. At EuroMed Conference participants had the opportunity to experience original and innovative presentations, demonstrations, panel discussions, exhibitions and workshops.

Twenty-five years ago, PostScriptum started on a journey of discovery in the world of Greek Culture as a pioneer in the smart use of new technologies. This year, we are celebrating with you ‘PostScriptum 25 Years’ milestone, by looking back and sharing a glimpse of our future.

PostScriptum 25 years in the company of Culture

Expect the Unexpected.

#PS25years

A new partnership between PostScriptum and Museum Herakleidon has initiated. Our goal is to seek for the optimal ways of funging in order to further promote the rich collections and the unique educational activities of the Museum.

PostScriptum had a dynamic presence in the European conference ICT Proposers’ Day Horizon 2020 - Face2Face Brokerage, which was held during the weekend of 26 and 27 September in Bratislava. The conference was organized by IDEAL-IST and the Enterprise Europe Network and was aimed to discuss and exchange ideas for proposals on projects funded by the European Union.

Watch online the video presentation of the first report for the study "Digital Strategy for Culture" in the ambient space of the small theater of Epidaurus. A study implemented by PostScriptum for the Association "DIAZOMA", sponsored by COSMOTE.

In the context of the preparation for the opening of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, a new MuseumPlus activation contract was signed. The objective is the accurate organization of its collections and the complete scientific documentation through an holistic approach. 

PostScriptums supports the Wiki Loves Monuments action, organized for the first time in Greece by annexes and the Wikimedia user groups. Thesswiki volunteers in collaboration with PostScriptum assist on organizing the competition and was in charge of the coordination of activities to enrich the entries relating to North Greece.

After 4 months of intensive and creative cooperation with stakeholders concerning digital policy and cultural policy on a national level here is the 1st Report on the "Digital Strategy for Culture" elaborated by PostScriptum.

This season closes with two important projects for PostScriptum and digital culture: the digital strategy for the National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum and a study regarding the Digital Agenda for Culture as a guide for the use of Information and Communication Technologies in the area of ​​culture, which was assigned to PostScriptum by DIAZOMA.

The new NSRF has already opened and PostScriptum participates in the Second Period Business Discovery launched in 2015 and organized by GSRT as a member of the Advisory Group on Innovation Platform for Culture, Tourism and the Creative Industries.

As part of the campaign that PostScriptum ran for the enrichment of the Europeana Food and Drink content, one of the most important new content providers is the National Historical Museum. The Europeana Food and Drink honors his contribution with an article about the content that will be uploaded in the coming days and its cooperation with PostScriptum.

Official nomination for the experiential exhibit created by PostScriptum in association with Minds and Bytes for the Athens City Museum in Heritage in Motion Awards.

For the fourth and final meeting, all partners of Europeana Food and Drink gathered in Budapest at 6th and 7th of June. The Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism (MKVM), culture sector partner within the project was the host for this meeting and welcomed all the partners by offering a culinary experience. 

PostScriptum and  the PanHellenic Union of General Directors of Local Administration "Kleisthenis" organize a PS Value Talk Event called "Cultural Policy and Local Growth" on Friday the 20th of May 2016 at Hyatt Regency Thessaloniki.

Photos, videos and proceedings from PS Value Talks' Event Cultural Policies and Local Growth, held last Friday in Thessaloniki.

On April 21^st between 11: 00 and 14: 30 an editathon a, under of Europeana Art History Challengewill be held at the Library of the National Gallery, with scientific guidance from the museum curators, coordinated by the Wikipedian Pavlos1988, and supported by Wikimedia UG Greece and PostScriptum.

The winner from the Open and Hybrid Publishing Business Modeling Workshop, that was organized under the Europeana Space in London, is vivl.io. Vivl.io successfully participated in HackTheBook Hackathon, which was organized by the Onassis Cultural Centre with the support of PostScriptum, as part of their participation in the Europeana Space best practice network, and earned his participation in OHP Business Modeling Workshop.

photo © Athanasios Deligiannis

The NSRF 2014 - 2020 and the Regional Operational Programmes (ROP) that are included, are now available to the public and to cultural organizations. Culture, one of the main axes of ROP, in the new NSRF is part of the natural environment . The ultimate aim of the NSRF and the ROP are to achieve the goal of sustainable development of the Europe 2020 strategy.

The conference "Repurpose, Experience, Taste and Rethink Culture: How to creatively reuse and participate in digital culture" which was organised by the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and was supported by PS Value Talks of PostScriptum was successuflly completed. People from the area of culture and the creative industries, academians and representatives of the business world were gathered to discuss about the re-use of digital cultural content and the value of crowdsourcing as a means of promoting public participation in the collection and editing of cultural content.

photo © Katerina Komninou, CC-BY

The Europeana Food and Drink Project in the 8th newsletter a few months before its completion gives us a glimpse of the news, the achievments and what is going on in the backstage! Get informed about the content that has been uploaded to Europeana so far, about the meeting of Project Managers in Athens, the cooperation with the Europeana Space and other interesting news.

PS Value Talks return with the support of an interesting one-day event for culture discoverability and knowledge exchange, with focus on creative reuse and crowdsourcing of our cultural heritage.

22d of March, 2016, Innovathens, Hub of Innovation and Enterpreneurship, Technopolis of Athens

More information here. 

With all the buzz and recent publicity created around the Project Τhesswiki we have decided to review a very interesting and up to date report by Nesta (an innovation charity) about hyper local media and the notion of hyper local sui generis. The report focuses on the UK landscape by demonstrating its hyperlocal nature and gives interesting insights about this trend.

In the context of networking and Digital Cultural Heritage community, Europeana Food and Drink and Europeana Space are joining their forces under the umbrella of Europeana and enhance their networks with new ideas and possible synergies. The two sister projects have signed an agreement and  very interesting things are expected from their cooperation. Read more here.

Thesswiki project “Wikipedia editathon: a literary walk in Thessaloniki” that was organized by the Library AUTH Information Center, ranked among the 10 best actions of promoting libraries in the 13th international competition IFLA BibLibre International Library marketing award 2016, that was organized by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.

On Friday 26th of February, PostScriptum organized engagement event about the Europeana Food and Drink (EFD) project in the magnificent Domaine Oenotria Land Costa Lazaridis. During the event the EFD project and the Attica Wine Trail were presented. The event aimed at bringing together representatives from the world of culture, wine, tourism, media and creative industries in order to exchange, learn and use content related to food and drink and to create dialogue on prospects and potential partnerships that may arise on the occasion of the project.

The virtual tour application at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi facilities is now available forr mobile devices and tablets on Google Play and the App Store US and the App Store US and App Store GR.

How looks like the book of the future and who are the winning teams? Take a glimpse to the photos and a representative video summarizing the whole creative process of HackTheBook and read about the participants and their ideas! Congratulations to everybody!

photo © Athanasios Deligiannis

An article about the two-days conference PS Value Talks: Digital Sustainability - New Prospects for Museums and Cultural Organizations was published in Issue 12 of the official Newsletter of ICOM. The article summarizes the proceedings of the conference by session giving an overview of the fruitful dialogue that was initiated. Click here to read the full article. 

Εncouraging news for the Thesswiki project: the National Theatre of Northern Greece noticed an increase of the relative entries to Wikipedia after the realization of the Thesswiki project in September! Mr. John Anastassakis, Artistic Director of the NTNG, officially thanked the organizers of the action and made it clear that they will continue the effort we started together and will enrich it even more with further educational activities and entry writing.

Thesswiki project has now become part of the city and continues to grow! The action "Laboratory of writing articles in Wikipedia: a literary walk in Thessaloniki" which was organized by the Library and Information Center of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki was remarkably successful. The action aimed at writing articles related to poets and writers associated with the city of Thessaloniki (places of the city where novels took place or places associated with the lives of poets and writers), with the cooperation of faculty members and volunteers students of the Foundation.

Waitinig for 2016… we wish you health and happiness, inspiration and creativity! 

“Dissension”, Tobias Rothe, Netherlands, Supreme Winner in GIF IT UP 2015 contest. Creative reuse of source material in Europeana.  

This gif is made available under a CC-BY 3.0 license. 

In an effort to connect the public with cultural heritage, new ways of collaboration with cultural institutions and their audience arise. One of the most collaborative and highly involving practices is the idea of crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is a post-modern practice which encourages multiple individual interpretations pertaining to cultural heritage content and facilitates a unique connection between heritage collections and a network of individuals who are diffusing cultural content across the Web.

Read the last newsletter of the Europeana Food and Drink and be informed about the progress and the news of the project, among which are the conference which was held in Malta in November, the collections which are live on Europeana and much more!

The project of Thesswiki continues and the entries are increasing constantly, opening the doors of Thessaloniki to the world through Wikipedia! In this context, the Library and Information Center of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki will host on Friday, December 11th, 2015 (09.00-16.00) the action "Laboratory of writing in Wikipedia: a literary walk in Thessaloniki" during the student week

The Europeana Food and Drink project and PostScriptum are inviting all cultural heritage institutions to be part: Join us and become a content provider to increase the visibility of your collections related to food and drink! Read more  here.

On 22, 23 and 24 January 2016 the Onassis Cultural Centre organizes the HackTheBook festival and redefines the book beyond the book, along with artists, designers, editors, authors, poets, developers, entrepreneurs and hackers, in collaboration with EuropeanaSpace, the Goldsmiths – University of London, the Coventry University, the Cavafy Archive and PostScriptum, with support from the GFOSS (Greek Free/Open Source Software Society). The call is now open! 

The curricula offer for the positions of Grants and funding expert and Product Manager was remarkable and made the selection difficult. The PostScriptum would like to thank all the candidates who expressed their interest and to inform that the submission for CVs is closed.

A keynote paper, published in 2011 but still a state of the art, comments on the new technological trends which have important implications for cultural heritage and tourism.  

Given the recent phenomenon of heritage digitization new opportunities emerge for the heritage tourism market as well as for cultural organizations such as museums and heritage attractions.

Consumers  are now facing the dynamics of pervasive technology and new types of customized, integrated experiences -which start before and end long after the actual visit- in which they are actively involved through social networking and extensive use of mobile technologies. Museums are regarded as fertile environments which have the potential to facilitate the development of such experiences by encouraging on-site discovery through online and offline means.

The Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece and PostScriptum present on Monday, October 26th at 10: 00 at the headquarters of the Chamber in Athens (Valtetsiou 42, Exarchia), the project "Art in Society", which was completed under the NSRF Operational Programme Digital Convergence.

The White Paper, recently published by Europeana Foundation highlights the value of cultural heritage content re-use as a strategic medium for inclusive, sustainable and smart growth and encourages the creation and smart utilization of digital tools in Tourism, Research, Education and Creative Industries.

European Cultural Centre of Delphi (ECCD) and PostScriptum completed and present on Thursday, October 8^th at 12: 00 at the offices of the Central Office of the Delphi Centre in Athens (Phrynichos 9, Plaka), the project "Promotion and elevation of the activities of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi through a comprehensive digital strategy", which was completed under the NSRF and the Operational Program Digital Convergence.

PostScriptum completed the project "Open Web Platforms of Arts and Letters" for the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and Onassis Cultural Center. The project will be presented on Thursday, October 1st  at 10:00 am at the Onassis Library room (Amalias 56, 105 58 Plaka). Download the invitation here and see the program here

We celebrate Thesswiki project with the organisation of an Editathon on 26th of September. Citizens and friends of Thessaloniki from Greece and abroad will gather in order to write articles about the history and culture of the city and they will also have the opportunity for special tours in four of the most important museums of the city.

Europeana Food and Drink Project progresses and gives the audience interesting new applications and new challenges through the Open Innovation Challgenge Contest and opens its doors to new content providers! Get a taste of the news of the project and see the excellent work that PostScriptum and 28 more partners make through the Newsletter.

Art in Society, a project of PostScriptum the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece. The organization was fully equipped, both in terms of internal infrastructure and extroversion, with state-of-the-art management systems for the utilization and promotion of its collection.

The new website of the Foundation George Zongolopoulos  is on air.With over a thousand items in its collection the Foundation invites you to discover the diverse work of the tireless Greek artist and his wife through original interactive applications. 

The Culture Hack Workshop, an innovative action which brings communities closer to the Museum, was completed on Monday 20^th of July for the Olympic Museum of Thessaloniki.

Open cultural data and the reuse of content give an excellent opportunity for those who are involved in developing applications for innovative ideas for social or "creative" good, while aiming at economic viability and job creation in the cultural sector. Read an interesting article about the Open Content and its reuse in the Cultural Sector by Maarten Brinkerink the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, one of the partners of Europeana Space, in which PostScriptum participates.

National Gallery is one of the first museums in Greece who cooperates with Google Cultural Institute and dispose their collections online through the Google Art Project. Google Art Project enables visitors to discover part of the permanent collection of the museum online and in high resolution, making it accessible to a global audience.

On June 10th at 11:00 the Publicity Event about the completion of the project "Digitization and Enhancement of Foundation's Michael Baron Tositsa Cultural Heritage" will take place in the Student Residence of the Foundation Baron Michael Tositsa.

The two-day conference "PS Value Talks Digital Sustainability - New prospects for museums and cultural organizations" that was organized by PostScriptum LTD in cooperation with Innovathens hub of the City of Athens and the Greek Free /Open Source Software Society (GFOSS) was succesfully completed. 

With great pleasure we announce the award ceremony of the Enrichment Wikipedia Contest for March 25th that will take place in the National Historical Museum, in the building of the Old House (Pl. Kolokotronis, Stadiou 13, Athens 10561) Monday, May 18th at 12:00 in the context of the International Day of Museums. During the ceremony the results of contest will be presented and the winners will be awarded by the organizers and the Ministry of Education.

Αn interesting article recently published in Kathimerini newspaper on "Museums in the life of the Greeks.". Marlen Mouliou, lecturer in Museology (University of Athens), attempts to record the relationship between citizens and the museums through empirical data. A small but representative sample of the research presented at the 10th Symposium of the University of Athens (Department of Archaeology and History of Art).

PS Value Talks Digital Sustainability - New prospects for museums and cultural organizations: two-day conference under the auspices of the Greek Section of ICOM in the context of the celebration of International Museum Day 2015 "Museums for a Sustainable Society"

The EU Expert Group for Cultural Heritage published a new report recommending research and innovation activities relating to the contribution of cultural heritage in the direction of smart and sustainable growth.

Balance sheet 2014-2013

The Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation organizes in cooperation with PostScriptum the action "Marathon Wikipedia for Greek Fashion and Greek costumes which focuses on the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation (PFF)" as part of its participation in the European project Europeana Fashion.

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

Samuel Beckett

The new four-year work plan for culture, strategic text that redefines the European policy and sets out specific priorities for European cooperation and funding in the EU in the field of culture, was approved.

The European Cultural Centre of Delphi implements under the NSRF and the Operational Programme "Digital Convergence" the project "Promotion and elevation of the activities of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi through the development of a comprehensive digital strategy". The project has been approved of and awarded, after open competition, to PostScriptum.

Thessaloniki Olympic Museum implements the project «Healthy mind in a healthy body in the digital age» in cooperation with PostScriptum.

Europeana Food and Drink is a project funded by the European Commission under the CIP ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) that aims at promoting the wider re-use of the digital resources available through Europeana. 

The National Historical Museum is looking for Wikipedians in residence for the project “National History Museum. Virtual Exhibitions and Educational Applications for the Modern Greek History”, which will help to coordinate efforts on the process of writing and editing entries on Wikipedia.

PostScriptum is pleased to announce the start of a cycle of informative internal seminars for 2014 under the name Expert Room. Twice a month an Expert from our network share his/her knowledge with us in order to inspire us and give us new ideas.