PROJECTS

The Digital Repository is working on digitisation projects and sharing collections via online international portals. See our funded projects below:

 

    SEADDA (Saving European Archaeology from the Digital Dark Age) Collaboration Project

    The SEADDA project aims to bring researchers, experts and different stakeholders together to share expertise to protect archaeological data from a “digital dark age”. You can read more about the research objectives of the projecthere. 

    The BIAA is a member of the SEADDA Project and is working to increase knowledge of openly accessible archaeological data and digital legacy data preservation for Türkiye and the Black Sea region. 

    You can see the SEADDA workshops organised and attended by the BIAA Digital Repository Office, as well as the translation project to make the PARTHENOS Guidelines accessible in Turkish, in Resources. 

    SEADDA Project

    Lost Villages of the Upper Euphrates: A Digital Archive

    • UCLA Modern Endangered Archives Programme Funding
    • This project will digitise and make openly accessible approximately 2,400 slides created between 1970 and 1990 in the Upper Euphrates region of southeast Türkiye.
    • The slides form a unique ethnographic record of traditional ways of life in ‘lost’ villages flooded during construction of the Keban and Karakaya hydroelectric dams. They depict villagers engaging in activities such as weaving, embroidering, ploughing, collecting water, basket-making and preparing traditional Turkish food, all prior to modernisation and mechanisation. This project will ensure that this important and irreplaceable material is made digitally accessible.
    MEAP project - Lost Villages of the Upper Euphrates: A Digital Archive

    Connecting Archives & Connecting People Project

    • Imagining Futures Phase II Funding
    • ‘Connecting Archives, Connecting People’ project is a collaboration with BILNAS that aims to widen access to archives by focusing on the concept of ‘creators’ – the people who collect, create, and interpret archival material – as ways to connect documents and information hosted in different institutions.
    • The "Guidelines for Creating a Person Database" is available in English, Turkish, and Arabic.
    Connecting Archives Connecting People

    BIRI Digital Coordination and Strategy Project

    • This is an ongoing collaboration project between the BIAA and the other seven British International Research Institutes (BIRI). 

    • The project aims to share knowledge and to develop a joint portal between all the BIRI, which will enable access to and facilitate querying and searching collectively on the resources of all the individual member institutions. Digitisation steps, creating digital repositories, and linked open data are the main topics for discussions in regular online meetings and workshops that are held to share know-how between the institutions. 

    BIRI Digital Coordination and Strategy Project

    Digitalisation Project of the Botanical Reference Collection

    Herbarium Digitisation Project

    VikiGLAM Türkiye Müzeleri Project

    • Wiki Meets Museums of Türkiye Project (or in short Museums of Türkiye), is a product of cooperation between the Museum Professionals Association (MUZEDER), the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) and Wikimedia Community User Group Türkiye (WMTR) under GLAM-WIKI. 

    • The project aims to create a list of the museums in Türkiye and relevant Wikidata and improve the visibility of the museums to increase their accessibility.

    • English: Detailed information about the project.  Türkçe: Proje hakkında detaylı bilgi.

    VikiGLAM Türkiye Müzeleri Project

    Tille Höyük Ethnographic Photograph Collection Digitalisation Project

    Tille Höyük Photographic Collection

    PARTNERSHIPS

    Archaeology Data Service (ADS)

    https://ariadne-infrastructure.eu/