Archiving the World Wide Web Digital Preserving Initiatives

Archiving the World Wide Web Digital Preserving Initiatives in Hungary Workshop Archiv- und Bibliothekswesen vom 24. 03. – 30. 03. 06 Budapest

Topics n n n Digital documents in a digital world Digital world in Hungary History of the Hungarian Electronic Library Initiative (MEK) Electronic Periodical Database and Archive (EPA) Plan of a Hungarian Internet Archive (MIA)

Digital documents in a digital world n n n n Fast growing mass of the digital documents Digitisations and born digital documents New document types (e. g. portals, blogs) Fast changing technical environment, rapid obsolescence of the hardware and software The threat of loss of digital heritage Out of the rules of traditional printings (publishers, legal deposit law, quality controll) Unesco Charta on The Preservation of Digital Heritage

Digital world in Hungary n n n The beginning of the 90’s – the first WAN in the academic institutions National Information Infrastructure Development Program – HBONE Internet usage in Hungary in 2005 is about 28% Digitisation projects in library and beyond Language problems; national accents, small language market

The Hungarian Electronic Library Initiative (MEK) n n n Main goals: to collect, organize and transform to uniformat the Hungarian and Hungary related electronic documents to be used for scientific, educational or culture-related activities. Digitised or born digital documents Published or electronic version of printed documents

The Hungarian Electronic Library acquisition channels n n n n Internet – selected archiving Publishers, scientific institutions, universities Authors – like open archives CD-ROM conversions Digitisation projects in the library Volunteer digitisation – like Gutenberg proj. Voluntary deposit

The Hungarian Electronic Library Digital preserving n n n Migration of the digital documents Different formats to uniformats and Converting multiple formats, e. g. Word, RTF, PDF, HTML, Dj. Vu, LIT, XML Images in the PDF + OCR text Preserving rather the information, not the document

The Hungarian Electronic Library n Organisation; q q q n Volunteer initiative by librarians - 1994. Department in the National Library - 1999. Public association - 1999. Copyright; q q q Collectiv rights managament, Individual licensing, Creative Commons

The Hungarian Electronic Library Other activities n n R+D activities and cooperation with different organisations – e-library as a laboratory VMEK project – accessible/simple MEK for disabled people; q q q n Readerable interface for blind people Adjustable interface for impaired people Hot keys for people with moving coordination problems Topic map for Hungarian classical literature

Electronic Periodical Database and Archive (EPA) n The Hungarian electronic journals - special situation; q q n n Mostly free Different quality level Unreliable/unsteady, project-based Our new service in 2004 called EPA – goals: q q Register of the Hungarian electronic and digitised journals, Archive the more important scientic, cultural journal in a uniform database.

Electronic Periodical Database and Archive n n n Collect online and digitised journals Collect rather journal issues High priority to the Hungarian journals published abroad Metadate only on the periodical level not article level Cooperation with a TOC database for article searching

Plan of a Hungarian Internet Archive (MIA) n n n Digital preserving of the Web – the urgent need! National web harvesting or selected web archiving Webarchiving projects in the world Webarchiving plans in Hungary The first steps (HTTrack practice, demo archive, DC generator) A recent, Sad example: www. folkarchive. hu

Thank you Vielen Danke István Moldován Hungarian Electronic Library Department Hungarian National Library moldovan@oszk. hu