AltSol and ReasonableGraph are proud sponsors of the EEBEP 2026 Conference!
22–24 April 2026
Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation
Conference theme: "Spaces of knowledge and memory: Redefining the image of libraries, archives and museums in a changing world"
We are delighted to take part with the workshop "Syn-Topos: Towards an open digital space for community knowledge and memory".
"Syn-Topos" takes shape as a Public Digital Space, where openness and sharing form the foundations for the knowledge and memory of the community. This infrastructure embraces a broad range of activities, bringing together the collections of institutional bodies —such as municipalities, libraries, museums and research organisations— with the archives of cultural associations, informal collectives and the personal archives of citizens themselves. Through terms of sustainability and interoperability, "Syn-Topos" ensures that history, the records of a place and the knowledge about them remain alive, accessible and reusable by everyone.
In practice, "Syn-Topos" works like a large digital "roof". A central body, such as a municipality or a research centre, provides the infrastructure and the space. There, a cultural association, an oral-history group, a sports club or a municipal library can organise and showcase their archive, alongside other collections of the municipality or organisation. At the same time, the door is open to all: every citizen can actively contribute material or take part in activities and workshops organised within this digital ecosystem.
This model is already implemented using the open-source ReasonableGraph platform, developed by AltSol and provided in collaboration with INTEROPTICS SA. The workshop will show how RG allows the formal description of experts to "converse" with, and be organically complemented by, the personal experiences of the people of the community. We will see how the autonomy of each body or collection is reconciled with the "whole" of a unified infrastructure, which can host multimedia holdings of every kind —from individual objects to entire events— such as oral testimonies, audio archives, scores, photographs, postcards, records and digitised press. None of this concerns only the distant past; it includes even the everyday life of the city, turning "today" into history and knowledge. The workshop's aim is to introduce and familiarise participants with a model where technological innovation meets people's stories, turning the public digital space into a genuine "Syn-Topos" of knowledge.
More: co2026.eebep.gr
Detailed workshop programme: programme