Paper abstract: This paper is a preliminary report of the FCS_WORD project results and activities underway at the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean. FCS_WORD is an implementation of a Web publishing environment for cultural heritage research and documentation, based on open-source wiki software and integrated sets of collaborative authoring tools. Wiki server software allows users to freely create, edit and manage content contributions using any standard Web browser and operating system. FCS_WORD is applied to Category 0 (Cultural Heritage) Ongoing Research Data (ORD) within the Framework for Cultural Statistics (FCS) - Data for Greece. The concept of a coherent cultural statistical data framework for Greece has stemmed from the long-term classification work undertaken jointly by UNESCO and other United Nations bodies in developing the UNESCO FCS recommendation. The aim of the project is to explore and evaluate the ways in which academic, professional, and other user-participant communities can collaboratively document and interpret different sets of digital cultural resources (e.g. textual data and metadata, visual resources, spatial data, project reports), thus contributing to an ongoing, collective, multi-vocal and community-based process.

Authors: Prof. Nicolas Vernicos (Professor, CHMLab Director), Dr. Evangelia Kavakli (Lecturer, CILab Manager), Dr. Gerasimos Pavlogeorgatos (Lecturer, CHMLab Manager), Mr. Efthimios C. Mavrikas (PhD Candidate, CILab Researcher), Mr. Dimitris C. Papadopoulos (PhD Candidate, CHMLab Researcher), Ms. Sophia Bakogianni (PhD Candidate, CILab Researcher).

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