One objective of the National Digital Library project is to promote libraries, archives and museums to digitize their materials and by so doing improve their accessibility.
The public interface, which will be implemented during the project, will gather together the digitized materials. This will serve the needs of citizens, science, culture and education. In addition to the preservation of the materials, digitisation benefits the society first and foremost through the possibility of use and reuse of the materials.
The technologies used for the creation of digitised materials and their metadata must correspond to the requirements of long-term preservation in order to ensure that there won't be any need to digitize the materials again in years to come.
The National Digital Library project stresses well designed digitations' process which takes into consideration both the needs of collections as well as the end users.
The Ministry of Education and Culture supports digitations through subsidies.
Examples of digitized collections can be found in the following pages:
The National Library of Finland http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/index.html?language=en
Digital Archives http://digi.narc.fi/digi/?lang=en_US
Finnish National Gallery http://collection.fng.fi/wandora/w?action=gen&si=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wandora.org%2FGUI%2FTeokset&lang=en
In future also these materials can be found through one public interface.