Estonica is a continually expanding and dynamic store of information. The texts are written by experts and are supplemented by archive materials and pictures taken by professional photographers. The project aspires to show Estonia as it is and help people to orientate in our cultural space. In addition to presenting objective information, Estonica tries to BE analytical and visionary, encouraging the reader to think about matters concerning Estonia also in the future.

Estonica consists of two hierarchical levels: the first derives from uniform principle of categorisation, and contains illustrated and edited overviews. The second level offers more thorough treatments on narrower topics. The overviews have generally been specially written for Estonica, whereas the second level also uses previously published articles.

Estonica takes into account the requirements of different kind of users, keeping in mind those interested both in Estonia and elsewhere in the world. The Estonian version focuses primarily on the needs of schoolchildren and teachers in compiling, supplementing and illustrating their study material.

Estonica should be viewable like most new web programmes. It is certainly true of Internet Explorer and Netscape varieties. In other cases the usage may depend on the programme's support on javascript and other codes used in Estonica.