Deputy Ministry of Culture, Republic of Cyprus
Ministry
http://www.culture.gov.cy/Gladstonos 6 Strovolos Nicosia Cyprus, CY
The National Aggregator for Cyprus is based in the Deputy Ministry of Culture, Republic of Cyprus with the initials DMC. It is supported by open-source software which harvests content from cultural and academic Institutions that wish to share their material in Europeana. As a national cross-domain aggregator it has a very important role to promote Cyprus' cultural heritage at a European level by providing Europeana with digital objects.
In addition to data publication, DMC offers:
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Annual training performed by the aggregator's team: during the training, all participants are presented with new tools and hands-on sessions,
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Metadata submission via OAI-PMH, or FTP server,
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Data mapping in EDM,
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Data enrichment,
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Feedback report to participants,
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Helpdesk by email and phone.
Technical conditions for working with DMC:
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A participant CHI must have the ability to provide an OAI-PMH endpoint or exportation of their records in XML files so that the aggregator can proceed in harvesting and mapping the data collected,
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The data format is preferably in Dublin Core schemas.
In addition:
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Aggregator strongly advises all CHIs to provide good quality and well-documented content and generally keep enriching their collections so as to keep the accessibility at high levels,
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Aggregator encourages participants to maintain open access and free reuse policy on their content so as to keep the datasets as open as possible to everyone,
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Aggregator advises participants to keep up with Europeana's strategies, policies and technological upgrades so as to keep an effective workflow on their data in terms of publishing in Europeana.
Limitations: None. The aggregator is working with public and private CHIs.
Financial conditions: None.