In the
first half of the lecture the author reviews the efforts that the Hungarian librarianship
made on the development of a central retrieval search interface. The main
objective was to create a web service in which the library catalogues ? built
isolated during the past decades ? can be accessed from one point and the
metadata (records) can be retrieved in parallel. Among other initiatives, MOKKA
and ODR projects will be analyzed in detail, observations will be presented and
some conclusions will be drawn from the observations. The author reviews the
achievements and tries to point out objectively the shortcomings too.
In the
second half of the lecture the author draws a conception, which was evolved in
the library information sciences workshop of MTA SZTAKI and Monguz Kft. in the
last years. This conception utilizes the experiences of the realized projects
and considers the international trends. The work name of the conception is
?IMOLA?, which is an acronym from the Hungarian words, translated as:
?Integrated MOKKA, ODR and OLA databases?. The heart of the conception is a
confidence that the main central services of the renewing library system ? Hungarian
Distributed Common Cataloguing (MOKKA), National Document Supplying System
(ODR) and National Location Database (OLA) ? should be developed on a common
basis, so the duplication or multiplication of the record-heritage could be
avoided.