Abstract
The article introduces the national project Digital Library and Digital Archives (DIKDA) implemented between 2012 and 2015 by the Slovak National Library and its partner the Slovak National Archives. The European Union-funded project is remarkable for its complexity, integrating industrial-scale mass digitisation of printed cultural heritage materials with the improvement of preservation conditions of their physical copies, including their conservation and restoration. The amount of material digitised (over 55 million pages of monographs, serials, articles and special documents so far) and the robust technological infrastructure of mass digitisation make it one of the largest projects of its kind. The article summarises the basic facts about the project and its results and explains in detail its impacts in the area of making the digitised content available to the public, giving special focus to the cultural heritage portal of Slovakiana and related copyright aspects with regard to the out-of-commerce works legislation.
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