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MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES
- Polemon-EPET II (1995-1997). The following applications were developed as part of
the Polemon programme:
1) Multimedia applications entitled "Athens through the eyes of travellers" and
"Antonis Benakis: his life and museum", both intended for the information kiosks
located at different points throughout the Museum.
2) CLIO-MITOS: a semantic-index-based system of documenting cultural
information.
3) A collections management system.
Other organisations which took part in the programme were: The Institute of Technology and
Research, Epsilon AE, the Ministry of Culture and Intrasoft.
- FAME-ESPRIT ESSI (1994-1995)
Framework for Management and Design of Multimedia Applications in Education and
Training. FAME was an Esprit programme aimed at the creation of experimental
applications which could be used for the development and production of multimedia
applications based on new methodologies and intended for use in education and training.
The Benaki Museum was mainly involved in organising usability tests for the applications.
Other organisations which took part in the programme were First Informatics SA and the
Lambrakis Research Foundation.
- Hypertext Interface for Information: Multimedia and Relational Databases-ESPRIT (1992-1994).
HI-FI was a European Esprit programme aimed at developing methodologies and prototype
systems for using hypertext interface to access information stored in relational
databases. The Benaki Museum developed a model database for the documentation of cultural
information and also implemented the multimedia application entitled “Gold of Greece”,
enabling the jewellery which toured the world in the exhibition of the same name to be
subjected to specific searches. Other organisations which took part in the programme were:
Systems and Management, SpA, Syntax Sistemi Software SpA, Gesellschaft fur Mathematik und
Datenverarbeitung mbH, Siemens, Politecnico di Milano, MUSIC/FORTH, and Epsilon Software.
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