category national library
significance, range fully working part of library; the library is taking part on several (international) projects, mainly in the area of meta-data and standardisation
policy initially only collecting online phd-thesis and postdoctoral thesis (Habilitation) via a register form, now extended to online-publications by publishers
begin juli 1998
other documents
short overview (www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/DDB.html)
comments not very ambitious and no big vision they are working on intensely but some scattered projects and participations
Andreas Aschenbrenner (aola@ifs.tuwien.ac.at)