Transcript Digital Library Initiatives in Hungary

Digital Library Initiatives in Hungary
The Brief History of the Hungarian Electronic
Library
István Moldován
National Széchényi Library
[email protected]
The history and current situation of the
networking in Hungary I.
• 1987. launched the National Information
Infrastructure Development Program
• 1989. The first services have begun on the
basis of the X.25 protocol
• 1990. a large IIF project started, called
HBONE (Hungarian Backbone)
The history and current situation of
the networking in Hungary II.
• 1993. the first national and the international
Internet connection
• 1995-96. appeared the first commercial
Internet provider services (IPS)
• 1997. the SULINET - a governmental
project to connect all the Hungarian
secondary schools to the Internet.
Some Hungarian digital library
initiatives
• John von Neumann Digital Library
• Digital Academy of Literature
• Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County Electronic
Library
• Pázmány Péter Electronic Library
• Corvinus Library - Hungarian history
John von Neumann Digital Library
Digital Academy of Literature
Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County
Electronic Library
Pázmány Péter Electronic Library
Corvinus Library - Hungarian
history
The Hungarian Electronic
Library
• "Electronic publishing" becomes more
popular in Hungary
• 1994. The beginning the Hungarian
Electronic Library (abbr. MEK)
• It's goal is to make these electronic
documents available by collecting,
organizing and transforming them to a
uniform format using "human labor".
The Hungarian Electronic Library
The sources of the acquisition
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Web homepages
from authors
publishers
volunteers
The formats
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The difficulties in the Internet publishing
Different formats and accentes
Reading and preservation
”Supported" and "permitted" document
formats in the MEK
• ”Supported": ASCII, HTML, TeX
• ”Permitted”: DOC, RTF, PDF
• PKZIP for compressing
Description, navigation
• A simple bibliographic description in a little
ASCII file, so called "MEK header file”
• Searching on the basis "MEK header file"
by title, authors and keywords
• A simple hierarchical system of menus
"electronic bookshelves”
• "New acquisitions"
Virtual library
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We are collecting the URLs:
of the other Hungarian e-text archives
of the Hungarian related mailing lists
of the Internet services of the Hungarian
libraries, e.g. online catalogues,
• of the Hungarian electronic journals and
newspapers;
Online reference – Ask a Librarian
• Documents to Assistance
• MIT-HOL (Hungarian Online Librarian)
Since September 1999.
• 20-30 librarians from different libraries and
with different expertise
• archive of all questions and answers
MIT-HOL
(Hungarian Online Librarian)
Internet usage
• 3.300 electronic documents
• monthly
– users from 24.000 different IP addresses
– download more than 1 million files
– in size 26-28 gigabytes
• students from from Hungarian universities
and highschools
MEK Statistics I.
MEK Statistics II.
Copyright problems
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Complicated situation
New copyright law since September 1999.
Library or Publisher
Publishing or broadcasting
Plans for the future
• to gain and draw into this job more libraries,
university departments, other institutions
• make closer relations to publishers and
universities
• improve the bibliographic description of our
documents
• to compile lists about the most important
books in different subjects and sciences
• to begin archiving Hungarian electronic
journals with the help of the National Library
Thank you for your attention!
• Please visit our Electronic Library
• URL: HTTP://WWW.MEK.IIF.HU