The National Archives of Hungary (Budapest, 2006)

PRESS AND MEDIA ARCHIVES - The Archives of the Hungarian News Service by Andrea Pálfi-József Bana

had nearly 400 000 digital photos in the autumn of 2004, the number of which is increasing by several hundreds every day (Each shot comes along with meta-data chart) The store is increasing all the time partly because of the new shots of the Photo editorial staff and the retrospective digitalization of the traditional photo collection. The Photo bank makes it possible for its clients (inquirers of national and foreign media) to access the collection of the newest documents and daily photos as connecting equipment to the Internet beside the 75 year old photo collection registering the past. Thanks to the rational data building system the wanted photos can be found easily (and can be unloaded, too). You have to subscribe to this service. We can state without any exaggeration that the digital Photo bank of MTI share company offers an exciting adventure for the journalists researching past, the book editors, and the people who want to glean among 'constat' of the last sixty decades with scientific purpose. (The subscribing clients can enter the photo banks of the Hungarian news service from their own computer at home and can download excellent photos useful even for typographical usage) The Photo Archives can also be visited personally. With the help of its clerks and employees both the digitalized and traditional photos can be researched. News graphic database News graphic database is an online service, which has included colour and black and white graphics adopting to the current political, economic and other news of MTI since 1994. Graphics can be diagrams, maps, illustrations, chronologies and introducing events. You can subscribe to the service. There is possibility for individual order. Video archives In the autumn of 2001 MTI Share Company started a research developing programme and as a result of it started its new, digital multimedia contents service in January 2002. Within the frames of the service its cameramen as professional television and radio people continuously record in DVCAM format prominent national political, economic and cultural events. The five-six minutes long films can be found both on the home page of MTI Share Company and the closed surface in video and audio format for just subscribers and can be accessed in broadcast quality and they can be ordered on cassettes.