Initially, as part of the project, the documents were collected and recorded, their status was determined in terms of their suitability for digitization and availability to the specialist and wider public, and where necessary, the relevant maintenance, final selection and classification of the documents was carried out.
A total of 72,007 documents were recorded, of which approximately 55,000 were photographs, 1,500 printed materials, 570 posters, approximately 1,000 objects, approximately 400 drawings, approximately 300 audio and video files and approximately 13,000 other documents, such as vignettes, slides, etc.
For each of these items recorded were the following:
Project - about
ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ
The Project
The International Exhibition of Thessaloniki since its establishment in 1925 until today is an integral part of the city and its history. Therefore, the historical archive of TIF-HELEXPO captures the overall activity of the company and especially its cultural contribution. In general, the cultural and historical importance of all the material of the archive is extremely high, as it captures the modern history of Greece, through archives and letters of persons who played an important role in the modern history of the country.
The TIF archive includes, among other things, audios, images, letters and reels that are documents, as they concern the two biggest cultural festivals of the country during the 60s, 70s, 80s, and, more specifically, the Greek Song Festival, the International Film Festival and the Greek Film Festival. Also, it is worth noting that during the operation of the International Exhibition of Thessaloniki in the last decades, there were presentations of products that appeared in Greece for the first time, such as the electric washing machine, while through the TIF there was also the first television broadcast throughout the country. At the same time, the facilities of TIF were used as a setting in many Greek films of the 60s. The history and culture of Thessaloniki, and beyond, are inextricably linked and for this reason the historical archive of TIF must be available for future generations. In this context, TIF-HELEXPO with the financing of the Operational Program "Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship, Innovation", started from 2022, the digitization of its historical archive. With the implementation of the digitization project, the historical archive of TIF-HELEXPO is preserved and made accessible to all interested parties, in a modern and creative way.
The findability of the content is ensured by the inclusion of the material in the Europeana database, the National Documentation Center and the documentation software capabilities developed to offer open interfaces to access the material from any Third Party application.
It can therefore be said that the history of Thessaloniki runs parallel to the history of the exhibition.
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TIF and Historical Archive
TIF and Historical Archive – Digitization.
Mr. Kyriakos Pozrikidis is speaking
72,007 ITEMS
Registration
- A brief description
- The reference year
- The date of registration
- The exhibition or event
- The type of item
- Its position
- Its evaluation on a five-point scale, depending on its value
10,000
digitized
In total, from the 72,000 items recorded, based on the evaluation of the value of each one, 10,000 items were selected and digitized, of which:
- 9,200 photos
- 100 objects (books, albums, medals, etc.)
- 300 posters
- 100 audio files (reels and tapes)
- 250 designs
- 50 image files (reels and vhs)
Photographs
Indicative items
- All Section
- Posters
- Photographs
- Medals
- Card postal
