originator the Royal Library in Copenhagen, the Helsinki University Library, the National and University Library of Iceland, the National Library of Norway, the Royal Library in Stockholm
funded by all the Libraries mentioned above - calculated costs are DKK 2.000.000 for the Access Module (DKK 1.400.000 personnel cost only)
availability all tools are meant to be freely available
category cooperation of libraries
significance, range NWA will establish an archive in each Nordic country in its native language for the interface - a union catalogue from the national databases is planned
policy necessary requirements and guidelines but otherwise as open as possible - some interface definitions are needed to be able to dock the Access Module on the archive
begin in 1997 NWA started as a forum, the NWA Access Module project was started in november 2000
timetable building the archives is every libraries own task, experiences and knowledge is exchanged though
persons Sverre Bang (sverre.bang@nb.no)
tools a common tool being developed is the Access Module
other documents general description (www.kb.dk/kb/proj/nwa/)
Andreas Aschenbrenner (aola@ifs.tuwien.ac.at)