Database Developments to Establish Internet Content Services

The Institute, during the 50th anniversary year of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, is receiving an exceptionally large number of requests for professional assistance with various educational, scholarly, cultural, and official state projects. Among the ways we would like to help satisfy the professional demands made on us during the anniversary is by creating new thematic 'mini-sites'. To prepare these thematic mini-sites, we have developed our contemporary-history databases further to enable archiving of historical documents found in archives and description and archiving of historical studies, and data linkages of existing database elements. The first mini-site, presenting the armed groups of Budapest in 1956, is being prepared in the spring of 2006. Plans are for a thematic historical narrative to provide the framework for the content development, complemented by several hundred pages of digitalized textual documents, memoirs, photo documents, bibliography, and sound documents. Each element or document in the development will concurrently form a separate document in the contemporary-history database, also searchable and usable outside this mini-site framework.