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MaNDA (Hungarian National Digital Archive and Film Institute) serves as an institution aggregating digital information. Its another task of equal importance is to establish and maintain the national name space. The national name space may be realised by uniting existing data files of major cultural heritage institutions in a co-ordinated manner. The creation of name spaces based on national languages has already started in all developed countries. Name spaces represent a semantically structured system of proper names and common names expressed in the relevant national languages, and are accessible on the web. They comprise much bigger data files than the vocabulary laid down in traditional, monolingual, explanatory dictionaries. The main reason for this is that the national name space includes in addition to geographical names, names of persons and institutions professional terms as well. Being accessible for all on the web, the Hungarian national name space is also going to serve Hungarian-language users living outside the borders of Hungary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What should happen to Hungarian digital cultural heritage? Will a national institution be set up to provide services and guarantee long-term retention, based on a standard approach? Is the creation of the ‟KÉPMÁS„ service a feasible alternative? The Hungarian Parliament established the Hungarian National Digital Archive and Film Institute (in Hungarian abbreviated as MaNDA) to digitally archive and provide access to the treasures of Hungarian culture. ‟lt is the main goal of MaNDA to take stock of the treasures of Hungarian cultural heritage, as regards especially the works of literature, art, music and audiovisual nature; to capture them digitally, to retain them for future generations in this way as well, and to ensure their wide-ranging accessibility.„ The study dated 22 November 2011 bearing the title ‟The survival of national culture in the age of digital technology„ sets out the basic concept of MaNDA, and is identified by its authors as Mandalat version 0.9. The article criticises the study placing it into the context of earlier Hungarian efforts for digitisation, and hopes that, as a result of professional discussions, version 1.0 will provide an up-to-date model for archiving and providing the digital cultural heritage in the long term. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]