Takin.solutions is a company that offers ICT solutions for Cultural Heritage, from consultation to full implementation, depending on the needs of its clients. The goal of Takin.solutions is to offer quality, integrated digital solutions in the field of cultural heritage, whether it be for memory institutions, archaeological projects, or within the context of interdisciplinary initiatives. Takin is particularly specialized in the creation and management of:

semantic data modelling and mapping
database management
cultural heritage documentation

It focuses on digital documentation throughout the data management life cycle from data acquisition through curation, transformation, presentation, and visualization on the mission of both the research and preservation of cultural heritage.

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Takin.solutions is a consultation and services company for the implementation of information management solutions in the cultural heritage sector. A partnership between George Bruseker and Denitsa Nenova, the company builds on the years of hands-on, international experience of its founders in the field of information management in cultural heritage.

We are a flexible, dynamically developing company offering a broad range of services for data acquisition, management, analysis and presentation. Our passion is to work with customers to develop integrated solutions that look at how the parts of a particular problem fit to the whole of an overall data management strategy. We are interested in the goals of our customers both for the short term, but also the long term. We work together with you to figure out your overall needs and how they can most effectively and economically be achieved. In all these domains we offer consultancy, implementation and/or training according to your requirements.

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GEORGE BRUSEKER, PHD

Chief Executive Officer

DENITSA NENOVA, PHD

Chief Executive Officer

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George Bruseker is a researcher in digital humanities focussing on conceptual modelling and the use of semantic data in research. He is a co-founder and CEO of Takin.solutions Ltd. George has a PhD in philosophy from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and over 15 years of experience in managing ICT projects in the cultural heritage field. He has worked respectively for the British School at Athens, Qatar Museums and the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) where he most recently held the position of coordinator of the Centre for Cultural Informatics. He has held a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher post at ICS-FORTH (2015) and was a fellow of the Digital Society Initiative and the Swiss Art Research Institute (2019). His research interests lie in conceptual modelling, semantic data workflow, data provenance questions, and the democratization of knowledge.

ROCIO JIMENEZ, MA, MSc

Researcher

Rocío Jiménez is a PhD student in the field of History and Digital Humanities. Her academic background is in History, specialising in Archaeology and Forensic Anthropology, but also engineering, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), web and application development and design. She has a Master's degree in Geomatics and Geoinformation Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (2021) as well as in Teacher Training from ULPGC (2023). Rocio has working experience in archaeology both in Spain and all around the United Kingdom, working in the archaeological department of the UCL and with Ubisoft, among others. She is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Teramo working on the enslavement of the pre-Hispanic Canarian people during the conquest of the Canary Islands and the creation of an ontological database according to this topic, focusing on the Amazigh diaspora in Occidental Europe and on the and in the limitations of ontological models to express information relating to enslaved people.

Denitsa Nenova is a professional archaeologist and a co-founder and CEO of Takin.solutions Ltd. Her academic background is in archaeology, database solutions for Cultural Heritage (CH), and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), with a proven record of more than 20 years of experience in the field. Denitsa has a PhD in Archaeology from University College London and two Master degrees in relevant fields. Her main expertise is in the fields of digital archaeological documentation, semantic reference data models and their archaeological application, landscape archaeology, aerial photography and airborne-scanning technology, photogrammetry, Mediterranean and Balkan Bronze Age and Iron Age archaeology, and archaeological ceramics. Denitsa works on several international projects and has been involved as a postdoctoral researcher in two Horizon 2020 initiatives. She is currently a Digital Archaeology and Field Director at a neolithic excavations in Greece.

VESELINA KALKANDZHIEVA FdSc

Data Processing Specialist

Veselina Kalkandzhieva has been a Data Processing Specialist at Takin Solutions LTD since November 2022. In this role, she is responsible for handling complex data workflows, including semantic modelling, data structuring, data formatting, data mapping, and the transformation of raw information into accurate, usable insights for reporting and analysis. Her work also involves ensuring that data is aligned with business logic and semantic frameworks, which supports the development of more intelligent and meaningful data systems. She graduated from Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom, in 2013 with a degree in Science in Animal Behaviour and Welfare, and she also holds certificates in File Management and e-document production, web design, and database manipulation. Veselina has also completed an Artificial Intelligence course, gaining a strong understanding of how AI technologies can be applied within semantic modelling and other areas of data processing. Prior to joining Takin, Veselina was the CEO of a large cleaning company in the United Kingdom from 2014 until 2021, where she gained significant leadership, organisational, and business management experience.

Eleni Makrygiorgou

Researcher

Eleni Makrygiorgou is currently a PhD student at the University of Teramo as well as an intern for Takin.solutions. She holds two postgraduate degrees, an MA in Aegean Archaeology from the University of Sheffield and an MSc in Digital Methods for the Humanities from the AUEB university in Athens. Her research interests focus on identity topics of early modern societies with a special interest in the Greek community of Venice. She has had working experience in the sectors of Archaeology in Europe and Asia, and worked in database management through the Curatorial Project at the Knossos Research Centre (British School at Athens). Currently, she is exploring the application of digital methods to historical research and the limitations that this practice entails.

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OUR SERVICES

DATA ACQUSITION

Knowledge in cultural heritage stands on the basis of correct data acquisition, accurately capturing and recording facts regarding the past with the appropriate techniques for the object of study and documenting this capture itself. Takin.solutions offers consultancy in choosing appropriate methods for primary data capture, services in implementing these methods and support in implementing international metadata standards describing primary data.

DATA MANAGEMENT

In the digital era, the production of quality cultural heritage data is only made sustainable and viable under an overall data management plan and strategy. The organization of information for the present and the future is not only an important responsibility of researchers and professionals but increasingly an institutional and academic necessity. Increasingly, funding is tied to the articulation of data management plans requiring a complete projection of the data life cycle of a project’s work. Moreover, the creation and maintenance of data according to international standards not only offers to the academic community as a whole but enables researchers to benefit from data integration today in order to link to major reference datasets in order to expand their resources for carrying out their analysis and research. Takin.solutions has expertise in all areas of data management and in particular in managing semantic data contributing to the Linked Open Data web movement.

DATA ANALYSIS

The ability to amass and manage large amounts of cultural heritage data is something that researchers and institutions can start leveraging when they are able to apply advanced data analysis techniques to the data in question. In cultural heritage many of the questions related to datasets pertain to spatial and statistical questions regarding the data. Carrying out this analysis requires knowledge of both the basic tools such as GIS but also the correct statistical techniques. Data analysis also requires the ability to read, shape and leverage data from different sources and in different formats. Takin.solutions brings together the skills necessary to perform these tasks as part of your overall data lifecycle.

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