Apsida, Developing a Digital Cultural Heritage Repository

Abstract

During the last decade efforts to preserve items of cultural heritage importance have become more common between libraries and similar organizations. Libraries, archives and museums hold a number of collections in a variety of formats, aiming to make these collections available to the public. The Library of the Cyprus University of Technology following the strategic goals of the University for the preservation of cultural heritage material has progressed with the development of the digital repository “Apsida” (http://apsida.cut.ac.cy). The main reason for the development of Apsida was the gathering and dissemination of digital material of great cultural heritage importance. The platform incorporates all the digital collections belonging to the Library. It also acts as a host for collections belonging to the European program “LoCloud” in collaboration with the Digital Heritage Lab of the Cyprus University of Technology. This short paper aims to present the architecture of Apsida, the software that was used in the development of the project, and the collections hosted.