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• b] member lending and personalised services for the user
• c] statistical data from all libraries managed by ABEKT.
E-learning, remote support services and clearing rights for digital content are complementary
services which we provide through the development of online applications and tools which include
a variety of guided methods [texts with detailed instructions and visual material, for instance, videos,
presenting the application with narrated sample cases of its usage].
To test the feasibility of the new services, we carried out an online survey and were encouraged to
see from the responses that there is a real need for such services. A further aspect of the survey
was to identify the potential, requirements and available content of each organisation participating
so that we can give the end-users exactly what they need. A selected group of organisations are
already collaborating with us to establish the best way of further developing such services.
The SaaS Services are being developed as part of the project- ‘A Platform for the Deposition,
Management and Delivery of Open Metadata and Digital Content’- which we are carrying out within
the framework-Operational Programme ‘Digital Convergence’[NSFR] [ ESPA 2007]-2013]
Within the same framework, services are being given to certain Greek institutions implementing
cultural content digitisation projects in the context of the Calls 31 and 31.2 of the Operational
Programme ‘Digitisal Convergence’. The services are:
• Preservation of digital content This service offers secure storage of back-up copies of
digitised cultural content.
• Validator
• This service enables those institutions to verify that their content digitisation projects comply
with the specifications for interoperability and open data set by the ‘Digital Convergence’
Operational Programme,
• Unified Search Service.
A single point of access to digital cultural content with linked data and metadata.
Our services aid the user by:
• facilitating dissemination and reuse of digital content
• enabling access to well-documented quality content
• exhibiting content which was previously inaccessible
• enriching and linking available reliable information
• preserving valuable digital material
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The project “A Platform for the Deposit, Management and Delivery of Open Metadata and Digital Content” is funded by
the Operational Programme “Digital Convergence” (NSFR), which is co-funded by Greece and the European Union-European
Regional Development Fund.
