Mythotopia, Magical today, alive yesterday: Journeys in Eastern Macedonia & Thrace

We present MYTHOTOPIA, a platform designed to provide a multifaceted experience to visitors of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, using the region's mythological heritage as a starting point. The platform's linguistic content is set to significantly enhance the current National Infrastructure for Digital Humanities and Greek Linguistic Research and Innovation APOLLONIS, in which ILSP/Athena R.C. is already actively involved as a beneficiary of one of the main sub-projects of the corresponding Act. MYTHOTOPIA consists of a multilingual and multimodal data corpus from the field of Humanities, which, through a specially designed content management system, features indexing, linking, and various types of search functionalities. The focus of the presentation is on the data corpora, emphasizing their content, the methodology used for their development, and their presentation through the database. MYTHOTOPIA's cultural content combines textual data (classic literary texts with their translations as well as originals in Greek and English), depictions of mythological themes in ancient art, sound files, videos, and original photographic material from the region. A key element of MYTHOTOPIA is a bilingual (Greek and English) thesaurus created for content entry, supporting appropriate indexing and retrieval of the original data. The thesaurus content covers the fields of archaeology, literature, mythology, and tourism. Additionally, geospatial data of interest were added to the database to link content to the real exploratory experience of visitors, while the long-term preservation and accessibility of heterogeneous original data were ensured through the use of the appropriate metadata schema.