Benkő Andrea: A Guide to Petőfi Literary Museum (Budapest, 2009)
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:É DIA Digital Academy of Literature www.dia.pim.hu The Digital Academy of Literature has been in operation since 1998. It was established and has been maintained by the cultural government to provide ongoing financial support for the selected members of the Academy, i.e. the most outstanding authors of contemporary Hungarian literature. Another purpose of this initiative has been to create and develop a digital library available online of the members' works. In this way a growing number of the best of contemprary writing becomes accessible for interested parties all over the world. Besides supporting the creation of new, outstanding literary works and keeping a record of the values and merits of contemporary writing, the Digital Academy also aims to promote contemporary literature. It represents a most successful model of linking art patronage and digital IPR, which is unique in Europe. The Digital Academy of Literature has 69 members (including 36 posthumous members). Its website, which is the second largest digital library of the country, comprises authentic, quality texts critically revised. Hungarian emigrant writers and their works www.pim.hu The databank consists of the enlarged and revised biographical and bibliographical sections of the Lexicon of Hungarian Emigrant Literature published in 2000. media Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum Museum Multimedia Portal So far, writers and poets performing their own works have not really been available on the Hungarian Internet. The Digital Voice and Picture Library is a new Internet service provided by the Petőfi Literary Museum. Through its interactivity, it offers an original approach for lovers of literature. The combined presentation of pictures, sounds and texts adds a new dimension to reading and listening. The website pimmedia.hu aims to make audiovisual recordings of representatives of Hungarian literature on the Net. The number of authors to be found on the page is continually increasing, and work on the English, German and French versions of the main pages is in progress. In Europe, there are similar ideas, for example lyrikline.org, which has recently joined the EU 'Culture 2000 Programme'. The Digital Voice and Picture Library of the Petőfi Literary Museum is an official associate of lyrik line.org. With their Irish, Danish, Welsh and Viennese partners, they are working on the formation of a joint website. The reception databank www.pim.hu The Reception Databank constantly monitors, collects and processes the foreign acceptance of Hungarian literature - currently in German, French, English and Italian-speaking countries - and makes it available as a database to experts and the general public.
