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The National Digital Data Archive (NDA/ NDDA) project was launched in 2003. It aims to centrally register the cultural and public contents produced in Hungarian language or showing a Hungarian relevance that are available digitally and via Internet. It is further designed to support the digitization and coordination activities of other organizations of the branch, such as libraries, museums and archives. It is one of the main objectives of NDA to facilitate the availability and the reuse of the public data property. The system is based on the results of the internationally known and recognised Open Archive Initiative, and relies on the standards and recommendations established within the framework of this program (Dublin Core, OAI-PMH-2).
The activities of NDA are based on close cooperation with the data owners, i.e. the institutions undertaking the digitization of the cultural heritage, with the view to serve the needs of the users to their best. In order to bring this project to a success, we strongly rely on cooperation with the partner institutions voluntarily joining the program as well as on meeting the needs and demands of our users to the highest possible extent.
The NDA wishes to secure the necessary infrastructure and through this access to the widest possible range of cultural and public contents produced in the Hungarian language. We wish to achieve this aim by constructing a database (register) on the basis of descriptory metadata of the electronic documents of all partner institutions in line with the relevant international standards on the one hand and, on the other, by operating a search engine for searching the above database as well as securing the required technical background. Currently we register about 500.000 documents of 80 partners (online journals, collections, archives, museums, etc.)
In its present stage, NDA appeals to the content development communities, private collectors and archivists by providing an open archival toolkit which also supports easy content development.