Στρατιωτικοί Χάρτες από τη Μικρασιατική Εκστρατεία: η διαχείριση της συλλογής του Στρατηγού Αθανασίου Δασκαρόλη από τη Βιβλιοθήκη και Κέντρο Πληροφόρησης του Χαροκοπείου Πανεπιστημίου

Abstract

The General Athanasios Daskarolis is one of the unsung officers of the Greek Army in whose long military career Asia Minor Campaign is included as well. After his family decision, and through the intervention of a Harokopio’s University Geography Department faculty member, a collection of 15 military maps of this significant Greek history period, were donated to the Library and Information Center. The maps remained in obscurity for a long time till the time that Library was funded from the European Project “Digital Govergence”. Thus, Library had the opportunity to upgrade the Institutional Repository “ESTIA”. In this context and in order to develop the infrastructure for the exploitation of its cartographic material, Library integrated the organization, processing and dissemination of the General’s A. Daskarolis military maps collection with the ultimate aim of preserving this valuable historical material and promoting it under open access to the wide public. The purpose of this paper is to describe both the collection’s maps and the digitization process used by the Library for their management. Additionally, General’s A. Daskarolis brief biography will be mentioned, while the future actions that should be taken in order to promote more effectively the geographical information derived from these printed documents to the general public, will be highlighted