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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. |
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| Duration | 2011 to 2015 |
| Funding | Operational Programme ‘Digital Convergence’ |
| Subject Category | Technology Information and Communication - ITC, Research Infrastructures |
| EKT Role | Beneficiary |
| Result | 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. |