Basic information and data

• • The web archiving project has started at the beginning of 2017 in the National Széchényi Library,
    the test period lasted until 2019.
  • The aim is to preserve and make searchable documents and information sources produced and distributed in digital form.
  • The primary scope of collection is scientific, cultural, educational, and public sphere web content.
  • Types of archiving:
    – periodic harvests of selected Hungarian websites (by theme, genre, institution);
    – events related harvests (news portal sections, relevant websites and blogs);
    – snapshots of the Hungarian web space (servers under the .hu domain and other Hungarian related content).

  

  • The web archive uses open source, free software.
  • Only a small part of the collection is public, for legal reasons.
  • Statistics at the end of 2024:

Closed archive:
21 thematic sub-collections (e.g. public collections, art, religion, education, government, tourism, lifestyle)
5 sub-collection by genre (e-periodicals, news portals, podcasts, Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter)
25 event-based sub-collections (e.g. elections, sport events, war, pandemic, Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize)
1 geographical location-based sub-collection (Transcarpathia)
approx. 100 thousand selected websites saved quarterly with frontpage screenshots
approx. 850 thousand semi-automatically collected sites saved semiannually with frontpage screenshots
approx. 125 terabytes total size

Public archives:
608 selected and licensed or not subject to licensing sites saved quarterly
129 NSZL websites saved 1-2 times
25 websites maintained by the Balassi Institute, saved with two types of software
2 event-based sub-collection (Rákóczi Memorial Year, Foundation of the library by Ferenc Széchényi)
approx. 2.5 terabytes total size