Digitization of Archival Material
After many years of efforts, YDIA, with the assistance of the Ministry’s Special Service for Coordination and Implementation of Funding and Investment Programmes, succeeded in integrating in the NSRF Operational Programme "Digital Convergence 2007-2013" the project of digitization of the Ministry Central Service’s archival material of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. After the completion of a public international open tender in the fall of 2012, the implementation of the project began in the summer of 2013 and was completed in June 2015.
The result of the project is the digitization of more than 4,000,000 pages of archival material of the period 1821-1923, which has been provided to researchers through special computers in the Reading Room of YDIA and through the internet at http://arxeio.mfa.gr. In parallel, YDIA will acquire technological equipment and know-how that will allow it to continue with its own resources after the completion of this project, to digitize and make accessible more archival material.