As part of its activities, the Center for Cultural Informatics organizes educational seminars on Cultural Informatics, Data Modeling, Data Models and Standards, Monuments' and museums' information systems, Source Material Management (digitization, classification, indexing, memorization and management), Terminology systems, etc.

[June 2026]

Workshop "Visualizing History: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies", Saturday, June 13, Heraklion Chamber of Commerce.

The Institute of Computer Science at FORTH is co-organizing a workshop titled “Visualizing History: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies in the Service of Cultural and Historical Heritage," on Saturday, June 13, at 5 p.m. at the Heraklion Chamber of Commerce. Scientific Director: Yannis Tzitzikas (Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, and Head of the Center for Cultural Informatics at FORTH).

Video about the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg09D5GvNdc
Website: https://clubforunescoknossos.com/draseis
YouTube channel (to watch the event remotely): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCybeeYe_5hbVgJhumJuwuow
Interview: https://youtu.be/Oamz-G_yHw8
News coverage:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=QN5u5vi83yFXBc1O&v=pabm3TuAzSc&feature=...
Full video of the conference: https://www.youtube.com/live/_jtpkz5Ynac

[July 2025]

A summer school “CIDOC CRM Interoperability and Applications” (CCI.202205 Summer School) was held from Monday, July 21 to Friday, July 25 at the main building of FORTH. The event was organized by the Centre for Cultural Informatics (CCI) of the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of FORTH.
The school hosted 20 participants from 9 countries, ranging from postgraduate students to faculty members of international universities. The main focus of the school was the international ISO standard for cultural documentation, CIDOC CRM, which is now widely adopted globally. Notably, 40 international organizations currently participate in its development committee. The school focused on topics such as conceptual modeling, transformation, and access to cultural data using the CIDOC CRM standard, as well as on modern artificial intelligence methods and their application to real-world needs.
 

[September, October 2021]

A series of 5 interdisciplinary collaboration meetings with humanities scientists on epistemology issues affecting the construction of ontologies and systems in the humanities, organized under the framework  of project "APOLLONIS Greek Infrastructure for Digital Arts, Humanities and Language Research and Innovation", Sub-project 8, Action ΕΕ4: "Epistemology of Cultural Information Systems" (in greek)

• Workshop on "Thesauri in Digital Collections of the Humanities"
• Workshop on "The path from relational Databases to openly interconnected cultural heritage data: Matching and Transformation Technologies"
• Workshop on "Natural Language Processing"
• Workshop on "Access and Search Services"
• Workshop on "Quantitative and Qualitative Data Analysis in Historical Research"

[September 23, 2020]

Seminar on "Information Systems for Documenting Scientific Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences"  (in greek)

[October 2019]

Workshop on "Historical Content Metadata" - Interdisciplinary collaboration meeting with humanities scientists on epistemology issues affecting the construction of ontologies and systems in the humanities, organized under the framework  of project "APOLLONIS Greek Infrastructure for Digital Arts, Humanities and Language Research and Innovation", Sub-project 8, Action ΕΕ4: "Epistemology of Cultural Information Systems" (in english)

[1999-2001]

A specialised seminar series on Cultural Informatics subjects has been developed in the context of the project "Human Network of Cultural Informatics", including (in greek):

• Cultural data modelling and terminology systems
• Interoperability, information integration and access
• Source material digitization and encoding

These seminars can be offered again upon request.