09:00 – 09:30

Welcome

• Georgios Papaioannou

09:30 – 10:30

Keynote 1: Random thoughts on big data in museums

• Panos Constantopoulos

11:00 – 12:30

Session 1: Documentation and Semantics (Chair: Michalis Sfakakis)

• Leveraging Linked Data to develop rich discovery services for big heterogeneous cultural data; the case of the National Cultural Heritage Aggregator SearchCulture.gr
  • Georgia Angelaki, Harris Georgiadis, Agathi Papanoti and Elena Lagoudi
• Leveraging Big Data and Computing Technologies for Improved Digital Accessibility in Cultural Heritage
  • Avgoustinos Avgousti and Georgios Papaioannou
• Access To Artists’ Studios: An Ontology-Based Framework For The Documentation And Analysis Of Artists’ Studios
  • Andriana Nikolaidou

13:30 – 15:00

Session 2: Content Management, Data Collection and Curation (Chair: Aristidis Vrahatis)

• ARTES: Innovating Art Management with Big Data and Digital Twin Solutions
  • Athanasios Koutoupas, Avgoustinos Avgousti, Nikolas Bakirtzis and Sorin Hermon
• Local history education and Museum data: constructing a model for heritage digital curation
  • Paula Chagas, Alison Filgueiras, Juliana Braga and Feliz Gouveia
• Applied Computing and Big Data: A Case Study of the Pancyprian Gymnasium Historical Archive
  • Avgoustis Avgousti, Georgios Papaioannou and Nikolas Bakirtzis

15:30 – 17:00

Session 3: From small places to Big Data: case studies (Chair: Georgios Papaioannou)

• How small art organizations use websites and social media: a case study on the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR) in Cyprus
  • Eleni Sfyridou
• Cultural Landscapes and Big data in qualitative research: the case study of the martyr village of Kommeno, in Arta, Greece
  • Alexandra Aikaterini Andrianou
• Digital Literary Production: Transformation of Reading, Writing, and Interpretive Skills
  • Natassa Chalkia, Areti Dimitra Douka, Eleni Sfyridou

17:00 – 18:00

Keynote 2: Immersive Visualisation and the Emergence of Collaborative XR in the Museum Sector

• Erik Champion

09:30 – 10:30

Keynote 3: Big Data in museum, a brief history of cloud data management and perspectives

• Laurent d’Orazio

11:00 – 12:30

Session 4: AI and Big Data (Chair: Matthew Damigos)

• Combining LLMs and Hundreds of Knowledge Graphs for Data Enrichment, Validation and Integration Case Study: Cultural Heritage Domain 
  • Michalis Mountantonakis, Manos Koumakis and Yannis Tzitzikas
• AI-Driven Personalization in Tourism: Enhancing Visitor Experiences Through Real-Time Data
  • Ioannis Deliyannis, Ioanna Afroditi Mazi, Sofia Maria Poulimenou, Despina Elisabeth Filippidou, Eleni Christodoulopoulou, Anastasios Manos and Minas Pergantis
• Personal data, big data, cultural heritage and GDPR: realities and challenges
  • Antonia Pediaditaki

13:30 – 15:00

Session 5: Visualising Data and Collections (Chair: Georgios Papaioannou)

• An immersive workflow of co-creating virtual reconstructions of archaeological sites as an act of trans-disciplinary research
  • Georgios Artopoulos, Nicolas Loucas and Odile Daune-Le Brun
• The Goiás Memory Center and heritage education: Reuse of cultural collections and Museum data in schools in a Brazilian country town (Morrinhos / Goiás)
  • Paula Chagas, Alison Filgueiras and Feliz Gouveia
• Discovering Fairytale Paths: Application of Big Data in the Exhibition Design, Artistic Enhancement and Management of a conceptual Folk Tale Museum Scenario in Zagori, Greece
  • Melina Papadopoulou
• The role of the museums (international versus the national) on the increasing scale of the trade of cultural objects. Different agendas and frames of confronting existing policies and data on this trade
  • Sofia Chatzidi

15:30 – 16:30

Session 6: Communities, country groups and GLAMs (Chair: Milena Dobreva)

• Re-Open a GLAM LAB: a sprint-book publication on the GLAM innovation marathon
  • Milena Dobreva & Georgios Papaioannou
• Recovery of Cultural Heritage through Higher Education-Driven Open Innovation
  • Alexandra Aggeletaki, Anna Mavroudi

16:30 – 17:30

Keynote 4 & Panel Discussion: Why might a common vision matter for open cultural data?

• Jill Cousins