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The existence of grey literature can be looked upon as a communication process that goes on between the corporate author and the user. The study considers grey literature as a text, a message, and relates its reading to the prevalence of extensive genres, the strengthening of reading without buying books, and the occurrence of electronic texts. Grey literature is processed in meta-databases. Readers' needs and the special features of grey literature have to be emphasized in the organisation of meta-databases (e.g. the interactivity of the reader and the availability of the texts, etc. has to be ensured). The framework of the description of various types of documents is the MARC format, and Dublin Core and XML-based technology offer themselves as new methods. Metadata has to be defined together with the qualifiers supplementing, or sophisticating the metadata, and the groups of data. Data processing systems need alterations due to the questions and answers raised in connection with the processing of grey literature. In the future traditional document-centred processing must be followed by user (reader) focused processing. Databases, containing any source of information, will be created, making universal availability of information possible.

Országos Széchényi Könyvtár Észrevételek (2001/03/19)