1. eBooks & more:
New services from the eBooks on
Demand (EOD) network
Silvia Gstrein, University of Innsbruck/A, Library
silvia.gstrein@uibk.ac.at
2. Background #1
Library‘s own Public funds
funds EC/national funds
? Any other model
possible?
Not project based
PPPs / the Google Not timely limited
approach Bottom up = reader
driven
3. Background #2
?
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What are the criteria for current selection?
Who will take care of those materials slipping through the
fingers of all those projects?
Who will digitize books of minor languages or those from
special or smaller collections?
From the user´s point-of view: how can someone who
needs a book in digital form receive this book, here and
now, if it has not yet been digitized?
4. EOD – the service
Incorporation
into Digital
Library
EOD button:
digitising this
book on request
Library: scans &
transfers images
5.
6. EOD: The Libraries‘ point of view
Order Data Manager
– Central database with web-interface
Each library has access to its own orders only
According to its needs each library is able to customise the
website texts, automatically generated email texts, etc.
Central management of credit card payments
Digital Object Generator
– Central service for generating eBooks
OCR recognition (antiqua and gothic)
Automated cover generation
PDF & RTF delivery
Abbyy XML for library
Streaming link for download generation
9. EOD members
University Libraries of Innsbruck, Graz and Vienna (2x),
Austria
Vienna City Library
Bavarian State Library (Munich), University Libraries of
Germany Regensburg, Greifswald, Berlin (Humboldt University), Saxon
State Library (Dresden)
Czech Moravian Library (Brno), Research Library in Olomouc,
Republic National Technical Library, Library of the Czech Academy of
Science
Denmark Royal Library
Estonia National Library, University Library of Tartu
France Medical and Dental Academic Library of Paris
Portugal National Library
Slovakia University Library of Bratislava
Slovenia National and University Library
National Széchényi Library of Hungary, Library of the
Hungary
Hungarian Academy of Science
10. Facts & Figures
Delivery time
– average 1 week
Quantities:
– Approx. 3200 books = approx. 840.000 pages
– Top 3 libraries: 1 order / working day
– Quite big differences between libraries
1900 customers
Average price of order: about 50 EUR /
order
11. Experiences
Access to
books Fast!
otherwise
inaccessible
User reactions
How can I get
Good books from 20th
quality! century?
12. B. Price Evaluation
30 % of respondents perceived the price as high or very high, but the price-value
relation was evaluated positively by the majority. The perceived price-value relation
does not depend on the price actually paid for the eBook.
(in % of respondents; n = 106; source: EOD user survey 2008)
Mean
Price-value
relation 1,4
Price compared 2,8
to competitors
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
very low/good (1) low/good (2) high/poor (3)
very high/poor (4) don't know
13. Perspectives
Quantity of digitisation
The price
The catalogue situation
EOD as brand
⇒EOD in Culture programme
14. EOD in Culture Programme 2009-2013
Objectives:
Disseminate the EOD service
Enlarge the EOD network
Explore EOD as best practise model for
European wide cooperation for other institutions
(e.g. archives, museums,…)
Support the cultural dialogue among readers
and users of historical books by supplying Web
2.0 social platforms with details about selected
historical books
15. Perspectives
Quantity of digitisation
The price
The catalogue situation
⇒Shared and union catalogues, EOD
central search engine
EOD as brand
⇒EOD in Culture programme
17. Perspectives
Quantity of digitisation
The price
⇒Need of taking into account institutional and
regional conditions
The catalogue situation
⇒Shared and union catalogues, EOD central
search engine
EOD as brand
⇒EOD in Culture programme
18. Perspectives
Quantity of digitisation
⇒ARROW project
The price
⇒Need of taking into account institutional and
regional conditions
The catalogue situation
⇒Shared and union catalogues, EOD central
search engine
EOD as brand
⇒EOD in Culture programme
19. EOD & ARROW
www.arrow.net
Duration: September 2008 – March 2011
ARROW = “Accessible Registries of Rights
Information and Orphan Works towards
Europeana”
Goal: finding ways to identify rightholders, rights
and clarify the rights status of a work including
whether it is orphan or out of print
WP 7 “Validation” - EOD libraries as use cases
20. More „on demand“ products
What we would like to realise:
− Digitisation on demand for blind
and visually impaired
− Creation of „real“ eBooks with
corrected full text approximating
100% accuracy
What we have already realised:
– Reprint on demand
21. Used functions of EOD files
(in % of respondents; n = 181, source: EOD user survey 2008)
other
unused
Copy & Paste
Full text search
Print whole book
Print single pages
Browse & Zoom
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
23. Reprints II
From a member library‘s point of view:
just some more metadata
– BISAC Subject
– Number of colored pages
From the co-ordinator‘s point of view
– Image enhancement
– Creation of pre-press PDF, ONIX file and
cover file
– Delivery to print service provider
– Overall management
24. Reprints: Business Model
How does it pay off?
– First customer pays only printing costs (EUR
6 + EUR 0,02 p.p)
– Re-selling via Amazon
– First revenues from re-selling => co-ordinator
– Subsequent revenue => library
25. EOD & EuropeanaConnect
www.europeana-connect.eu
Task 5.7:
– Delivery of EOD eBooks to Europeana
– Prototype of Print on Demand in Europeana
Goal:
– First books will be delivered before May 2010
26. Thank you for your attention!
Silvia.Gstrein@uibk.ac.at
