Austrian registers on their
way into the web
ICARUS as coordinator, platform
and actor
Thomas Aigner
(Diözesanarchiv St. Pölten / ICARUS)

10 Roman catholic dioceses –
10 diocese archives
Different situations concerning
storage of register books
General situation Most of the books still
scattered in the parishes
St. Pölten Legal obligation to make books
accessible (1784-1938)
Huge pressure of genealogical
research
Decrease of catholic church
(members, parishes, priests)
Organizational problems and
challenges

Current Projects
Passau, diocese:
St. Pölten, diocese:
95% completed, 230
Upper Austria: parishes online by 85% completed, 80 %
Digitisation september 2011 online (340 parishes)
completed, online Vienna, archidioces
since January 2011 e:
Project start
Vorarlberg: November 2011, 40
Digitisation parishes digitized
completed, onlin
e since the end of Burgenland:
2010 10 parishes
digitized
Stiria / Maribor, diocese:
Project started sept. 2010

Different methods of
digitisation
Original records Microfilms
F. i. St. Pölten, Stiria F. i. Vorarlberg

Scanequipment used
Qidenus Qiscan
Zeutschel OS 12000
Semi-automated
~600-700 pages/hour
page
Bookeye 4 turning, ~1000
~800-900 pages/hour
pages/hour, special
feature:
V-cradle as a 120°
angled plate

Portal
www.matricula-online.eu
Metadata
www.matricula.findbuch.net
Images
webservers
partners

type of book
duration
remarks
signature
Open book

Thomas Aigner
St. Pölten Diocese Archives / ICARUS
Email: thomas.aigner@icar-us.eu
Web: www.icar-us.eu, www.dasp.at