New infortmatics system for Digiltal Literary Academy - change of technology

Mihály Eszter <>
Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum - DIA

Kármán László <>
Monguz Kft.



The Digital Academy of Literature (DAL) ? published in 1998- is a state-aided project. Fundamentally its goal is to support the hungarian contemporary authors in doing their creation in peaceful, relaxed circumstances. In exchange for the support, the works of these writers, authors can be freely downloaded from the Internet. DAL-'s editorial team is working on this issue, namely they are working on text digitalization.

In 2006 the head of DAL had been changed, which brought the initiation of XHTML form instead of SGML form and changed the so far used equipments to modern, standard tools.

However, for some reasons, the process of the switch have been layed off. Since then the problems are unsolved, like creating uniform text files, producing basic functions, for instance the automatic publication, or the function of searching.

We integrated the software tools used earlier into the new publication system, and kept using the procedure of working, which worked out well through the years. The softvers and procedures have been completed and modified, considering the unsolved previous problems and the uniform,informational and expansional technology conception of Museum of Literature (ML).

For the structural, formal analisation and the conversion into XHTML form of the new works and for the alteration of the former works is used the Oxygen editor. Regularly there is an update for the working versions in SVN version controll system. Works that are ready are marked for publication. Periodically JaDox ? used as the HunTéka integrated library system's electronic library modul by ML ? takes over these works which are ready for publication from SVN system, then saves and works them up, this way (embedded in ML portal) makes them searchable and browsable both by their metadata and fulltext.