The research project titled Thymele, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation under the programme “Funding for Basic Research (Horizontal Support across all Sciences)”, Sub-action 2, aims to develop a fundamental infrastructure tool: an innovative multimedia dictionary. This dictionary seeks to establish a commonly accepted conceptual and interpretative framework for the Performing Arts, including terms and concepts frequently encountered within this field.
The Thymele Dictionary will offer tailored digital applications that enable:
• The explicit and structured expression of terms and concepts related to the Performing Arts.
• The semantic interconnection of these terms and concepts.
• The identification of possible correlations for further study.
• The documentation of reasoning and argumentation behind the formation of each definition.
• The retrieval of primary and secondary materials that could serve as evidence to justify and substantiate definitions.
In addition, the project aims to disseminate knowledge about the Performing Arts to broader audiences. The system takes the form of an online platform offering open access, multimedia content, and crowdsourcing features for content addition and hypermedia utilization.
The project is being implemented by the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of the Peloponnese, under the scientific supervision of Associate Professor Eleni Papalexiou. Participating organizations include research centers of the Academy of Athens and the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos.” Additionally, a multidisciplinary research team of more than fifty members, representing twelve different institutions in Greece and abroad, collaborates on this endeavor. Participating institutions include the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Patras, University of Crete, Ionian University, Athens School of Fine Arts, University of Nicosia, Aalto University, and the Hellenic Open University. Notably, the project was evaluated under highly competitive criteria.
The funding secured by the Thymele project is the highest awarded in this category, amounting to €298,000.
The project is being implemented within the framework of Greece’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0”, with funding from the European Union – NextGenerationEU (Implementation Body: H.F.R.I.).