Presentation at "Celebrating the Digital Dead Sea Scrolls" Event, Israel Museum, 14 November 2011

1. Austrian Books Online
The Austrian National Library’s
Public Private Partnership with Google
Max Kaiser
Head R&D, Austrian National Library
Celebrating the Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 14 November 2011
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2. Austrian Books Online
www.onb.ac.at/ev/austrianbooksonline/
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3. Digitisation
of the entire historical
book holdings of the
Austrian National Library
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4. Largest Austrian
Public Private Partnership
in the cultural sector
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5. @maxkaiser

6. History back to the
14th century
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7. One of the world‘s
most significant
historical collections
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8. „Legal Deposit“ Quelle:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A
ustria_Hungary_ethnic_de.svg
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9. @maxkaiser http://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/siawd/siawd_halev.htm

10. @maxkaiser http://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/siawd/100hebraica.htm

11. @maxkaiser

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13. 600,000 volumes
200 Mio pages
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14. Google Books
Digital Library
Austrian National Library
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15. Partner Program
Google Books
Library Program
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16. ~ 40 Libraries worldwide
13 Libraries in Europe
5 National Libraries
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17. >15 Mio. books
>3 Mio. public domain
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18. Which books?
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19. Entire historical
book holdings
16th –19th century

20. 200.000 volumes
State Hall
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21. Department of Manuscripts
and Rare Books
Map Department
Quelle: http://deu.archinform.net/projekte/107

22. Department of Music

23. Theatre Museum
Quelle: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palais_Lobkowitz_Vienna_Oct._2006_006.jpg

24. Fidei Commiss Library

25. 70+ staff members
20+ exclusively for project
→ Book logistics
→ Metadata adaptation
→ Cataloguing
→ Conservation / restoration
→ Quality control
→ Software implementation
→ Project management
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26. June 2010
→ Preparatory project
December 2010
→ Operational project
Spring 2011
→ Start of digitisation
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27. No individual selection …

28. Except:
→Size
→Poor condition
→Very high value

29. Logistics in the
State Hall

30. Challenges…

31. Challenges…

32. Digitisation
→ Scanning Center in Germany
→ Procedures agreed
→ Books unavailable to users for ~ 3 months
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33. @maxkaiser

34. Book Logistics Digitisation
Data Download
Quality Control
Storage
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35. digitised items / day
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36. Book Viewer
Catalogue /
“Quick Search”
[Mobile Apps]
Full-Text Search
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37. Outlook
→ Full-Text: new possibilities for research
→ Data enrichment
→ New data centric research in the Humanities
& Social Sciences
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38. http://books.google.com/books?vid=ONB%2BZ119586207
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39. http://books.google.com/books?vid=ONB%2BZ119586207
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40. More information
www.onb.ac.at/ev/austrianbooksonline
www.onb.ac.at/ev/austrianbooksonline/faq.htm
twitter.com/abooksonline
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41. Thank you!
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