Components: [K] Knowledge and Education [S] Social [D] Economic and Territorial Development Targeted audience: - Aims / Content: Digitisation of architectural cultural heritage of Hermoupolis for the creation of a free, open-source web publishing platform , raising awareness and conservation plan Year / Duration: 2015 and ongoing with new applications Online material: www.europanostra.org/awards/166/ https://hermoupolis.omeka.net/ and www.thinkhermes.com Greece HERMeS: HERitage Management e-System ERMeS (HERitage Management E-System) is a digital heritage collection of historic buildings contucted by the National Technical University of Athens and the Municipality of Hermoupolis. — The digitisation project is about creating a free, open-source web platform for displaying the research content of a conservation plan related to the town of Hermoupolis, the capital of the Greek island in the Aegean Sea, Syros. — Hermoupolis, a 200 year old city, is unique to the extent that its buildings have remain intact, almost as a whole, from their foundation to the present day. The city presents a uniform historic im- age that cannot be found anywhere else in Greece, as there are only a few cities that have managed to remain unharmed. — The rich neoclassical heritage of Hermoupolis however, is endangered as the means for its conser- vation and valorisation are insufficient. — The main objective of HERMeS project is to evaluate the vulnerability of these historic buildings and propose a decision-making model ranking the need of intervention on a historic building. In this way, HERMeS, is an extremely valuable, cost-effec- tive management tool that helps priorities interven- tion, when resources are limited. — The prioritization of intervention to the neo- classical buildings of Hermoupolis is critical as it is impossible to lower the collapsing risk in all build- ings simultaneously and the prioritization cannot be judged solely by the local residents’ opinions. — In order to achieve its objective, a multi-vari- able database system that enables the recording and indexing of the historic buildings pathology profile has been developed. Monitoring the build- ing’s pathology profile has many positive impacts, Sources: www.europanostra.org/awards/166/ www.europanostra.org/news/653/ http://heritagetimes.eu/hermes-after-eu-prize-europa-nostra-award/ https://hermoupolis.omeka.net/ www.thinkhermes.com www.iampavlos.com www.digitalheritagelab.eu H such as knowing its conservation status, the need for intervention and the risk of collapsing. Thus, each building’s vulnerability is recorded and the details are publicly accessible. Apart from pathology data, historic buildings are classified in terms of architec- tural style and type, historic importance and spatial data (position in the city). — The final result is a catalogue with historic buildings and a point system, which reflects the risk of loosing the building. The point system leads to a Conservation Plan for the city, giving hierarchy of interventions that must be done in order to save the maximum architectural heritage with minimum funds, postponing the risk of collapsing. — In 2015, HERMeS received the prestigious Eu- ropean Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award in the category of Research and Digi- tization for its scientific and technical sophistication that enabled an amazingly detailed and accurate set of data to be compiled. In 2016, HERMeS rep- resented Greece in "EU Best Practices in Public Administration" (EIPA), and became one of "The Best in Heritage" projects. — Heritage Management e-System is a multi-cri- teria conservation plan for the city of Hermoupolis, that has already been applied by the local Munici- pality and is set as an example to be followed in many other cities, nationally and internationally. Cyprus University of Technology with Digital Her- itage Research Lab is going to lead the new appli- cations in four (4) UNESCO Site Cities (INTERREG MED-BALKAN, project IRC-HERMeS). European Cultural Heritage Strategy for the 21 st century „ Page 84