Some internet search engines offer full text searches on documents available on-line, others recommend sites on the basis of the meta-information in the headers of the webpages. NDDA has a new approach for this aspect.
It allows structured searchability, opening the way to semantisation. With it, database content becomes searchable, as opposed to just static pages or websites directly accessible through an URL. It conducts searches in descriptions made by experts on that particular subject, instead of searching inside the digital objects.
The information detected by the search engine serves as an instant cadastre. A data asset map of domestic digital contents can be prepared any time. This cadastre function makes ongoing work in different workshops transparent to the outside world, making parallel digitization avoidable.
NDDA also contributes to the freedom of information principle coming true.
