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

21-07-2026

New ATRIUM Project Workflows for Historical Map Annotation and Text Geotagging

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Two new workflows developed within the ATRIUM project, with the participation of Digital Curation Unit members, focus on controlled vocabularies for historical map annotation and the geotagging of place names in texts.

19-07-2026

DCU at the ARTEMIS Summer School 2026 and the Development of the ARTEMIS Data Infrastructure

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The DCU participated in the ARTEMIS Summer School 2026 and the project’s Consortium Meeting, presenting the ARTEMIS Ontology for Reactive Heritage Digital Twins and its role in the development of the ARTEMIS Data Infrastructure.

02-03-2026

ATRIUM project Releases New Videos on Workflows

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Through two new videos, the ATRIUM project highlights how workflows support the integration of digital methods and tools into Digital Humanities.

25-11-2025

Director’s Mandate of Agiatis Benardou Renewed by the DARIAH-EU General Assembly

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Great news! The DARIAH-EU General Assembly has unanimously renewed Dr. Agiatis Benardou’s mandate as Director of DARIAH-EU, extending her leadership through 2028.

07-03-2025

Summer Institute: Digital Humanities For Hellenic Studies 2025

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Summer Institute: Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies – Visualizing the Past: Mapping Athens’ Lost Neighborhood July 7 to July 11, 2025

05-03-2025

ARTEMIS kick-off meeting

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On February 11th and 12th, 2025, ARTEMIS—an EU-funded project with the participation of the Digital Curation Unit—was launched in Florence.

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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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

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Engaging Researchers for Improving Services and Training: Insights from the ATRIUM Survey and Researcher Forum.
Umerle, Tomasz; Lombardo, Tiziana; van der Lek, Iulianna; Ilvanidou, Maria; Delmazo, Carol
2025.
Workflow to publish Collections as Data: looking back at Europeana.eu and forward to the common European data space for cultural heritage.
Candela, Gustavo; Chambers, Sally; Irollo, Alba; Freire, Nuno; Dritsou, Vicky; Isaac, Antoine; Benardou, Agiatis; Garnett, Vicky; Tasovac, Toma
In: Transformations: A DARIAH Journal, Volume: Workflows , 2025.
Towards a collaborative map annotation workflow: Annotating ancient places on Rigas’ Charta of Greece. .
Ilvanidou, Maria; Carloni, Massimiliano; Aslanoglou, Anna; Dritsou, Vicky
2025.
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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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