Digital Library is a joint project of the Czech and Slovak parliaments in which Parliamentary Library, Information Technology Department of the Office of the Chamber of Deputies and Information Technology Department of the Senate Chancellery of the Czech Parliament and Parliamentary Library, parliamentary archive and Information Technology Department of the National Council of the Slovak Republic take part.

[Joint Czech and Slovak Digital Parliamentary Library replaces and updates former project Digital Library "Czech Parliament".]

DIGITAL LIBRARY ON THE INTERNET (in Czech only)

March 27, 2000 At the conference Internet in the administration and self-government 2000 the Office of the Chamber of Deputies was awarded the Cesky zavinac prize for the Digital Library project. The aim of the prize is to appraise an excellent project which contributed significantly to development of information society in the Czech Republic especially with regard to the needs of state administration and self-government. March 23, 2003 At the conference Internet in the administration and self-government 2003 the Joint Czech and Slovak Digital Parliamentary Library was avarded the Cesky zavinac prize for "an exceptional achievement in the development of information society in the Czech Republic and Slovakia". "… is a breakthrough in the exchange of information between the legislative bodies and general public of the two countries, and it is becoming an important achievement also in the wider European context."

Project goals
Content of Digital Library
Document types in Digital Library
ECPRD seminary - Electronic parliamentary library
Contact

  PROJECT GOALS

The objective of the project is to create and provide unified information system:

1. on the activities of legislative bodies of the Czech and Slovak Republics from their beginnings in 1993 to the future
2. on the activities of common legislative bodies of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918-1992
3. on the activities of the Czech and Slovak deputies in various legislative bodies (Slovak National Council, Imperial Council, Diet of the Czech Kingdom) in 1848-1914

Another important goal is to bring information on present and past activities of the two parliaments to broad public and make access to parliamentary sources faster, easier and more effective for our MP's and senators and last but not least to preserve "golden collection" of parliamentary libraries and archives for the future.
Paper is inevitably perishable, in some cases there is no more possible to make copies from classic printed materials. Catastrophic floods in recent years made us realise how important is to preserve written and printed treasures on reserve media at different places.

  CONTENT OF DIGITAL LIBRARY

According to the Agreement on cooperation in creation and providing Joint Czech and Slovak Digital Parliamentary Library of Parliament of the Czech Republic and National Council of the Slovak Republic from 3rd June 2002, the Library will contain full texts of parliamentary prints (bills including preambles, resolutions), debates (verbatim reports of all sessions and votings) and other parlamentaria since 1848 until now.

During 2003 Joint Czech and Slovak Digital Parliamentary Library will contain parliamentary texts of several hundred thousands of printed pages. They will be:

• Austrian Constituent Imperial Diet 1848-1849 (Wien, Kromeriz)
• Diet of the Czech Kingdom 1861-1913
• National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic and the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic 1918-1968
• Diet of the Slovak Republic 1939-1945
• Slovak National Council 1944-1960
• Czech National Council 1969-1992
• Resolutions of the presidium of the Slovak National Council 1970-1987
• Federal Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Czechoslovak Federal Republic (Chamber of the People and Chamber of Nations) 1969-1992
• Parliament of the Czech Republic (Chamber of Deputies and Senate) 1993-2003
• National Council of the Slovak Republic 1993-2003

Finishing of digitalization of the rest of historical materials including filling some gaps in already processed historical periods is planned in near future. Joint Czech and Slovak Digital Parliamentary Library will continue under the Common Czech and Slovak editorial board.

  DOCUMENT TYPES IN DIGITAL LIBRARY

• Invitations for sessions
• Debates
• Bills
• Resolutions
• Materials of committees

  ECPRD SEMINARY - ELECTRONIC PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY

Programme of the seminary with the list of participants and some of the papers.

  CONTACT

Mgr. Petr Houdek (e-mail: houdek@psp.cz, tel.:+420 2 5717 4515) - CZECH REPUBLIC
PhDr. Eva Malackova (e-mail: malaceva@nrsr.sk, tel.: +421 2 5972 2870) - SLOVAK REPUBLIC