Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands (www.kb.nl/kb/ict/dea/index-en.html)

originator IBM for the National Library of the Netherlands
availability unfinished (commercial) project
category national library
significance, range essential part of the library (to-be)
policy human-driven selection of electronic publications (online and offline) with contact to the publisher, concentrating on long-term preservation of digital material
begin September 2000
timetable working on the first release - planned end: May 2002
cooperation British Library
comments very interesting as far as long-term preservation is concerned


Andreas Aschenbrenner (aola@ifs.tuwien.ac.at)