The co-operation of public collections in the countrywide digitization projects of MaNDA, 2013-2016

Abstract

In November 2011 a digitization concept for public collections was issued in Hungary under the title Mandalat. It was followed by comments and opinions on the discussion list KATALIS, at the meetings held at the National Széchényi Library in April 2012 and at the Networkshop 2012 conference, and some analyses and evaluations of the concept were also published. In January 2016 the cultural administration announced the termination of the MaNDA programme and delegated its tasks to other institutions. The professionals of public collections may not have been properly informed about the results achieved in the period 2011 through 2016. MaNDA has built a database and several services, is actively involved in the co-operation forums of Europeana, worked together with a number of partners and exported a significant amount of records into the databases of Europeana. It is definitely worth recording these results before its planned reorganization.