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13 ANNUAL REPORT EKT
A Platform for the Deposit,
Management and Delivery
of Open Metadata and Digital Content
Duration: 2011 - 2015
Funding body: Operational Programme ‘ Digital Convergence’
Subject field: Technology Information and Communication - ITC, Research Infrastructures
EKT’s role: Beneficiary
Aim: The aim of the project is to create a modern open environment, integrated within the advanced
e-infrastructure of EKT, for the provision of Cloud Services for open digital content, which will be supplied
as a complete software service - Software as a Service [SaaS]. These services support the creation of
public digital repositories. They also support the organisation of libraries, available to a large number of
organisations, in order to ensure the dissemination and accessibility of high value open documents of
public data to a wider community.
The services will be provided, through EKT’s infrastructure, to a great number of organisations in order for
them to organise or provide their metadata and the digital content that they produce. The software services
will include: electronic support (e-helpdesk); distance learning (e-learning); and web support tools (video
instructions, toolkits etc). For the success of the venture it is foreseen that activities for the creation of
communities, comprised of the bodies involved in its implementation, will take place.
Results: Horizontal interventions on a wide scale characterise the project services for a large number
of organisations of public interest, such as libraries, museums, research centres, public administration
organisations, cultural organisations, historical archives and other organisations that produce and manage
appropriate content and metadata. In the modern Knowledge Society, it is imperative that this content is
provided in digital form in a way which is searchable, accessible and reusable by the general public.
At EKT, one central environment with advanced characteristics provides Cloud Services for the organisation,
dissemination, and preservation of metadata and content. The function of this central environment ensures
the sustainability and compatibility with the adopted national strategies for the dissemination of open public
data. In addition it ensures interoperability with platforms of central Cloud storing, support for established
content and metadata organisation standards as well as the immediate integration of emerging standards
and advanced functions for the preservation of the hosted data. Simultaneously, it introduces important
economies of scale, reducing the operational cost of the organisations – users.
