The National Audio Visual Archives (NAVA) project

The objective of the NAVA project is to prepare the establishment of a new Public Archive. Its objective is to collect, to preserve and to provide the Hungarian audio-visual documents to the public that are parts of the national cultural heritage.

The project is managed by the John von Neumann Digital Library and financed by the Ministry of Informatics and Communications, The Ministry of Cultural Heritage and the National Radio and Television Commission.

The following operations of the project were closed in autumn, 2002:

- preparing the act enabling the operation of NAVA;

- developing the standards and the technology for digitisation, administration, processing and archiving of audio-visual documents.

- working out the institutional, technological and infrastructural background for the NAVA as a Public Archive and preparing the technical documentation to the necessary investments.

The experts participating in the project finished their jobs at the highest level.