Creating and Managing New Services

at the John von Neumann Digital Library

TÓSZEGI, Zsuzsanna PhDManaging director of the

John von Neumann Digital LibraryBudapest, Hungary

Historical overview

Historical overview• November 1997: establishing the John von Neumann Digital Library • since Autumn 1999: the WebKat.hu - online internet catalogue• June 2000: the Digital Literary Academy on the Internet• 2002 National Audiovisual Archive project;• March 1998 – May 2003: 6 million users via Internet

Activity

Scope of activity: digitisation of the Hungarian

cultural heritage;   creating, storing and supplying

long-lasting digital documents;  development of methodical and

content-related issues connected to digital library duties;

  construction and maintenance of a meta-database;

  professional education and postgraduate studies.

Services

Main services 1:

WebKat.hu – the online catalogue of Hungarian Internet sources; Digital Literary Academy – online database of Hungarian contemporary literature; digitisation and publication of texts on the Internet; meta-database of Hungarian libraries, museums and archives;

Services

Main services 2:

discography of CD-ROMs published in Hungary and list of CD-ROM publishers/developers; publication of CD-ROMs; organisation of professional postgraduate studies; participation in the development of the library standards and methods related to electronic documents;

www.irodalmiakademia.hu

The Digital Literary Academy

Biography of the Nobel Prize Winner Imre Kertész

www.neumann-haz.hu

E-book collectionE-book collection

E-books:

small file size

portable

easy to search

easy to navigate

easy to enlarge

The Neumann CentenaryThe Neumann Centenary

www.neumann-centenarium.hu