In Greece, EKEBI (National Center for Books), a former private non-profit legal entity responsible for implementing national policy to promote books had undertaken a similar project with digitizing a large amount of literature magazines of the 20th century. Original issues date back to the early 1920’s and the scanning and OCR quality is s…[Read more]

I would choose Observatory 1821 because I have collaborated in spreading the program in the public schools of Kalamata and I have seen the results from the schools’ participation. I also use the Photodentro digital repository of educational material in my everyday practice as a teacher.

We could integrate DIY cases in a teaching context of local history. For ex ample, we could ask students to go through their family records in order to find data that concern a particular historical event that concerns their city (f.e. refugees finding shelter in Kalamata, Greece, after the Asia Minor disaster). They could enrich the content with…[Read more]

I find rather challenging the idea of implementing a digital humanities literature project in my school. The advantages are numerous: very appealing to students due to their familiarization with the digital world, easier to find data, ideal for combining different data sources and unlimited opportunities for creating a digital open source of…[Read more]