Balkaneana Seminar
Balkaneana Seminar Agenda
WHERE: Libary Multi-use Room, Central Public Library of Konitsa
WHEN: 09:30 am, Monday, August 22, 2016
09.30-10.00 Arrival of participants
10.00-10.30 Welcome - Opening speeches
10.30-10.50 The digitization and documentation of printed material
Constantinia Chalkia, Librarian
10.50-11.20 Representations and stories about the nature, people and the culture of Konitsa in a Digital Library
Dr. Kalliopi Stara, PhD Cultural Ecology, MSc Ecology
11.20-11.40 Restoring and digitizing the Municipal Library of Gjirokaster
Aurora Lazaj, Director of the Financial Department of the Municipality of Gjirokaster
11.40 – 12.10 Coffee break
12.10-12.30 Digital libraries: issues and best practices
Ioannis Fudos, University of Ioannina
12.30-13.00 The Balkaneana Platform: a user friendly data warehouse, University of Ioannina
13.00-13.30 Cultural geography of the greek-albanian border
Vassilios Nitsiakos, Professor, University of Ioannina, Department of History and Archaeology
13.30-14.00 The entrepreneurial exploitation of culture
Theodoros Alexiou, Business consultant