The multiple-step editorial system in the ‘Digitale Diathek’’s standard data services allows distributed editorial supervision of the standard data thesauri available, by specialist scholars in the participating universities and research institutions, while at the same time allowing easy creation of new entries/supplementary data in the individual thesauri by ‘Digitale Diathek’ partners participating in the standard data program me.

The instance-centred architecture of the ‘Digitale Diathek’’s standard data thesauri also provides the greatest possible freedom and scaleability in integrating the standard data into local instances and makes it possible to establish individual/local standard data holdings. Providing standard data thesauri locally ensures the greatest possible availability of the standard data, even if the connection with the standard data server fails.