Nestor and kopal - two national initiatives to ensure long-term accessibility of digital documents in Germany

摘要

The upheaval of the publication market towards the electronic publication via networks significantly changes the task profile of libraries - especially of those libraries that are responsible for the tradition of the cultural heritage of a nation. This initial situation for Germany is specifically serious because a large number of different libraries have been entrusted with the task of collecting, indexing and archiving of the publications there. It is a task that has to be newly shaped by organisational and technical aspects for a changed universe of publications. There is, however, a cross-community understanding that all those activities have to be undertaken in a co-operative effort.