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Pergamos: NKUA's Unified Institutional Repository & Digital Library Platform (Pergamos)

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Pergamos is the Unified Institutional Repository & Digital Library Platform of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). It has the ability to host any material, whether born digital or digitized, that is either owned and associated with our Institution or produced by the NKUA academic community. The material hosted by Pergamos, is organised in collections, that, depending on its content, may have an administrator or curator from the staff of respective NKUA units that are related to the collection (who are responsible for the content of the collection they curate). This ensures that compliance with the relevant guidelines or regulations that may govern or affect the content is achieved. In this respect, Pergamos comprises a large set of heterogeneous digital collections ranging from research and educational output (articles, papers, books, datasets, presentations, etc.) produced by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens researchers, faculty and staff, to theses and dissertiations produced by NKUA's students, as well as extending to collections of archival, historical or cultural value. More specifically, Pergamos boasts of more than 10 collections of diverse content, covering almost the entire thematic range of NKUA's Schools, while the total number of digital items reaches approximately 1,000,000 digital objects. The description of the digital material is based on the Dublin Core metadata standard while the description of the archive material isbased upon the ISAD (G) standard. In each case and depending on the needs of the material, additions have been made to the description of the material either with the Dublin Core (DC qualified schema) specifications or with fields of local use and importance. Pergamos implements the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) metadata harvesting protocol, which makes its content searchable by various international websites, harvesters and search engines that support the OAI protocol, in excess of the more or less well known internet search engins (like Google, Bing, etc). In addition, Pergamos' metadata are compatible with the Europeana Data Model (EDM) standard for platform interoperability with the Europeanana European Digital Library. Moreover, Pergamos supports an open REST / JSON API for third-party hardware interoperability.