The International Exhibition of Thessaloniki on Sunday 12 November 2023 at 15:00 at the OPEN STAGE of PAVILION 13 within the framework of the 38th International Tourism Exhibition PHILOXENIA 2023, organized an informational event for the project “A route to Modern Greek History through the Historical-Cultural Archive of TIF-HELEXPO”, which is part of the Operational Program “Competitiveness Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2014-2020” and the Priority Axis “Development of entrepreneurship support mechanisms”.

At the informative event, the following presentations were made: “The history of TIF and its historical archive”, the project “A route to Modern Greek History through the Historical-Cultural Archive of TIF-HELEXPO” as well as “The Digitization and Documentation of Cultural Material of TEF-HELEXPO in the context of the project”.

The objective of the project is the digitization, documentation and management of the cultural resources and documents of TIF-HELEXPO as well as their promotion through new technologies. The documentation will be carried out by the application of open linked data methodologies and technologies, the development of a documentation application and the connection of material with ontologies and geographic information, the development of a modern, interactive and multi-channel network hub, the development of an audio-visual tour system, the development of a 3D navigation application and the development of a series of educational interactive applications, which will be offered in multiple versions for execution over the Internet and through smart devices.