1. Austrian Books Online
The Austrian National Library‘s
Public Private Partnership with Google
27th May, 2011
Dr. Johanna Rachinger
johanna.rachinger@onb.ac.at

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The Austrian National Library
One of the 5 most important historic book collections in the world
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The Austrian National Library
Modern Library and
8 Special Collections
• Picture Archives and Graphics Department
• Map Department
• Department of Music
• Literary Archives
• Department of Papyri
• Department of Planned Languages
• Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books
Total stock: 8 Mio. objects
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The Austrian National Library
Reading Rooms with state-of-the-art communication technology
Modern Library
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Digitization efforts in the Austrian National Library
AustriaN Newspapers Online grants access to
6 Mio. pages of historic newspapers
ANNO
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Digitization efforts in the Austrian National Library
In current ambitious projects: 5.000 volumes are digitized per year >
the time factor plays an important role!
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Key data project Austrian Books Online
• 6 years duration
• 600.000 volumes
• 180 Mio pages overall
• 30 Mio digital copies / year
• 143.000 digital copies / day
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Cornerstones of the Public-Private Partnership
• Only public domain material may be digitised
• The cooperation with Google is non-exclusive
• We receive copies of all digitised items and can put them online
for non-commercial use
• Both partners are obliged to make all of the digitised items available
for online access free of charge
• We can make our digitised items available via other platforms
• We are fully autonomous in our decisions on which books are
to be digitised
• The logistics and digitisation processes are accompanied and
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Public debate
“This coup by the National Library has saved it 30 million euros, places it in
the digital avantgarde, and creates for its readers and scholars in the whole
world significantly facilitated conditions for reading and working. What
formerly had to be garnered by wearying physical means in the best libraries
or was not available at all, is now only a click of the mouse away. That will
accelerate research, throw new light on the holdings of the best institutions,
and unburden the reading rooms.”
(Die Presse, 16.6.2010, p. 31)
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Public debate
“why representatives of authors or publishers, instead of looking at the
possibilities opened up for books (and readers), are painting fear scenarios,
while the allegedly most conservative group of participants, the libraries,
are going ahead and helping to shape the future.”
(Der Standard, 25.6.2010, p. 35)
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Project Austrian Books Online:
Workflow impressions
Book pulling
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Project Austrian Books Online: Workflow impressions
Conservatory measures
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Project Austrian Books Online: Workflow impressions
Barcoding
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Project Austrian Books Online: Workflow impressions
Metadata Ammendments
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Project Austrian Books Online: Workflow impressions
Book preparation
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Some challenges:
Historic book shelves and book pulling hindrances
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Some challenges:
Books in 3 to 4 consecutive rows
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Some challenges:
Large formats
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Project goals 2012
• Access via electronic catalogue of the
Austrian National Library
• Access also via Europeana and the
European Library portal
EXCLUSIVELY PUBLIC DOMAIN
WORKS
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Further Information
http://www.onb.ac.at/austrianbooksonline
http://www.onb.ac.at/austrianbooksonline/faq.htm
twitter.com/abooksonline
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