Research Summary

Research interests include: subject approach to information and thesauri. Metadata structures and cultural information exchange. Also, the ever changing role of libraries, archives and museums in the digital environment.

Research Interests

  • Information policy
  • Institutional repositories
  • Institutional Archives and standards
  • Subject approach to information
  • Knowledge organization and metadata standards
  • Education of information professionals and curriculum development

Research Projects

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European/International Projects

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    European Union’s Erasmus + programme 2020-2021

    Educability Project Building the capacity of Educators & Librarians in Information Literacy

    EDUCABILITY Project aspires to be a conceptually, strategically, technologically and educationally pioneering endeavor in answering specific urgent demands of the current Information and Knowledge Society.

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    Horizon2020 Reflective 6-2015h3. Crosscult

    Crosscult: Empowering reuse of digital cultural heritage in context-aware crosscuts of European history". 11 partners Total grant 3.5 million euros. Daphne Kyriaki-Manessi is team leader of the University of West Attica Research Team.

    The European "CrossCult": Empowering reuse of digital cultural heritage in context-aware crosscuts of European history" project aims to spur a change in the way European citizens appraise History. It will foster the re-interpretation of what citizens may have learnt in the light of cross-border interconnections among pieces of cultural heritage, other citizens' viewpoints and physical venues. It seeks to increase retention, stimulate reflection and help citizens appreciate their common past and present in a more holistic manner. Technology and mobile apps will be used and a user-friendly and a cost-efficient tool for experience designers, museum experts and external stakeholders, will be developed.

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    Tempus Phare Project

    "Library restructuring: administrative and technological reform in the university libraries of Albania". In collaboration with the Computing Science Dept of the University of Florence, Italy, the University of El Bassan, the National Library of Albania, the Agricultural University of Tirana, and the University of Girocastre. Sub coordinator and member of the scientific team and responsible for the evaluation studies. 1997-2000.

    The PHARE Programme is one of the three funding resources for pre-accession support to the EU, provided by the European Commission to assist the candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe in their preparation for full membership to the European Communities. It was introduced in 1989, at a time when most candidate countries were going through a phase of economic and political transition. Today it funds exclusively actions concerning the priority sectors of pre-accession for each candidate country. The PHARE - TEMPUS Programme aims at providing assistance to the candidate countries in the sector of academic education. It began in 1993 in the wider framework of the PHARE Programme. Nowadays, it belongs to the framework programme of the EU for the economic and social reform of Central and Eastern Europe (CARDS Programme) and of the programme for the economic restructuring and revitalisation of the new independent states of the Former Soviet Union and Mongolia (TACIS Program). The groups targeted by the programme include academic faculties and professionals, who are trained in key sectors such as justice, environment and government reform. CIEEL was involved in the TEMPUS Programme through a series of seminars, addressing audiences not only of legal orientation. The seminars dealt with topics of general and specific EU Law.

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    Historical Archives Management: training of University Professors at the State National University of Kissinau

    The project focused on training university professors in archives management and organization.

    Project coordinator to the Program "Historical Archives Management: training of University Professors at the State National University of Kissinau, Moldova, 2009. The project was set in motion by the NGO "Humanet".

  • Intra-university and National Projects

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      • MELTOPEN Project ((Museum Experience with Location Tracking, Ontologies and open laboratories) 2019
      • Leader of the project “Innovative applications for promoting the research work of midwifery society, 2017-2018
      • Leader of the project CrossCult- National Contribution, 2017 2018
      • Leader of the project CrossCult- National Contribution 2018-2019
      • Thalis Research project. “Development of an integrated information environment for assessment and documentation of conservation interventions to cultural works/objects with non destructive techniques (ndts)”Head of the project is the National Technical University of Athens – NTUA. D. K. Manessi is the Leader of the 3rd research team. The project is funded by the Greek Ministry of Education and Funds of the European Union. (budget: 468.000 euro).
      • State wide Project "Bookmobiles for the Public Libraries". EPEAEK. Head of the project. Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs. 2000-2004. Participation of 42 libraries. (1million euros)
      • State wide Project "Information Centres in Public Libraries" Information Society. Head of the Project. Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs. 2003-2004. Participation of 56 librraries.(2.5 million euros)
      • Head of the K. Simitis (ex prime minister 1996-2004) Archives: Organization, digitization, transfer to repository environment. 2007- present

  • University Projects

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      • Development of Digital services of the TEI A Library: Institutional Repository of the TEI of Athens Library and E publishing (e books, e journals, e conferences)". The Project is funded exclusively by the European Union within the framework of "Digital Plan.”. Head of the Project. 2010- 2015 (budget: 952.000 euros)
      • Work experience program for the students of the Dept of Library Science and Information Systems”, 2010-2014. (250.000 euros).
      • Libraries and Information Management. Head of the Project 2020

  • Research Projects Participations & Collaborations

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      • Project "Academic Libraries" EPEAEK. Responsible for the development of "Rules and Regulations of the Ionian University Library" and the development of the University's Documenation Centre. 1996-2000.
      • Project "Academic Libraries" EPEAEK. Horizontal act. Member of the committee for the continuing education of academic librarians. 1997.
      • Project "Liaison office of the Ionian University". EPEAEK. Responsible for the study "Job Market for librarians in Greece". 1998.
      • Project "Work experience for library school students" EPEAEK. Developped the questionnaires, the guidelines and the final assessment study. 1996-2000.
      • Project "Departmental Evaluation" EPEAEK. Department of Archives and Library Science, Ionian University. 1998-2000.
      • Project "Erasmus, Leonardo DaVinci and Life Long Learning" for the Department of Library Science and Information Systems, TEI of Athens, 2006-2009.
      • Project "Reform of the Curriculum of the Department of Library Science and Information Systems, TEI of Athens, 2006-2008. Head of the Committee for Curriculum Certification.
      • Expert consultant to the National Documentation Centre National Hellenic Research Foundation, 1996 – 2016. Participated and formed research teams etc in several research projects such as "Institutional Repository of the National Research Institute", "Best practices in handling and managing e content", “metadata issues for the Greek Reference Index in the Humanities and the Social Sciences”, “Linked data” etc.
      • Founding member of the scientific Laboratory “Information management” of the Dept of Archival, Library Science and Information Studies, University of West Attica.