Presentation at the 8th Member States’ Expert Group on Digitisation and Digital Preservation, Luxembourg, 28 June 2011

1. Austrian National Library – Google
Public Private Partnership
Max Kaiser
Head R&D, Austrian National Library
8th Meeting of the Member States’ Expert Group
on digitisation and digital preservation
Luxembourg, 28 June 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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6. One of the world‘s
most significant
historical collections
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7. „Legal Deposit“ Quelle:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A
ustria_Hungary_ethnic_de.svg
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8. →Digitisation
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10. →Digitisation
→Online Publications
→Web Archiving
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11. 6 years
600,000 volumes
180 Mio pages
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12. Google Books
Digital Library
Austrian National Library
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13. Partner Program
Google Books
Library Program
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14. 13 Libraries in Europe
5 National Libraries
 Italy
 Austria
 The Netherlands
 Czech Republic
 Great Britain
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15. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/
doc/reflection_group/final_report_%20cds.pdf

16. „Stimulating the flow of private funds
for the digitisation of cultural assets through
equitable public private partnerships
appears as a viable and sustainable way
of tackling the pressing question
of making Europe’s cultural wealth
accessible online and preserving it
for future generations.“
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17. „The key question is not whether
public-private partnerships for digitisation
should be encouraged, but how‚
and under which conditions.“
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18. Cornerstones:
→ Respect for rights holders
→Only public-domain works digitised
→ Transparency
→Very detailed FAQs online
→ Access
→Free-of-charge access worldwide
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19. Cornerstones:
→ Digital copies for library
→Identical with copies used by Google
→ Re-use
→All files available for non-commercial use
→Access via platforms like Europeana
→Provision to research partners
→ Non-exclusivity
→Free to digitise material with other partners
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20. Additional key elements:
→ Selection of books by library
→ Institute for Restoration involved
→ Termination
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21. Who is paying
for what?
http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/downl/1148453/layout/CE%2043_3.jpg

22. Costs
→ Full text-digitisation:
very expensive
→ Report by
Collections Trust
for Comité des Sages
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/
doc/refgroup/annexes/digiti_report.pdf
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23. 70–100 Euro / book
 Typical costs for projects with
external service providers
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24. Google:
→ Transport
→ Insurance
→ Scanning
→ OCR
→ Image processing
→ Quality control
→ Google Books
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25. Austrian National Library:
→ Selection
→ Internal logistics
→ Conservational assessment
→ Metadata
→ Barcoding
→ Data download and control
→ Data storage & digital preservation
→ Digital Library
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26. Which books?
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27. 200.000 volumes
State Hall
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28. Entire historical
book holdings
16th –19th century

29. Department of Manuscripts
and Rare Books
Map Department
Quelle: http://deu.archinform.net/projekte/107

30. Department of Music

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

32. Fidei Commiss Library

33. Preparatory project
Mid - end 2010
→ Integration with organisational processes
→ Personnel resources
→ Logistics workflows
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34. 70+ staff members
20+ exclusively for project
→ Book logistics
→ Metadata adaptation
→ Cataloguing
→ Conservation / restoration
→ Quality control
→ Software implementation
→ Project management
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35. End of 2010
Test shipment & Start operational project
Spring 2011
Start of digitisation
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36. No individual selection …

37. Format

38. Condition

39. Conservational
evaluation
<1%
excluded for
conservational reasons

40. Value

41. Logistics in the
State Hall

42. Logistics in the
State Hall
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43. Logistics in the
State Hall

44. Challenges…

45. Challenges…

46. Challenges…

47. Challenges…

48. Logistics in the
„Aurum“ Depot

49. Preparation for
Digitisation

50. Manipulation area …

51. Barcoding

52. Adaptation of metadata

53. 4 minutes / volume

54. books
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55. hours
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56. working days
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57. person years
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58. Complex cases …

59. Adligata …

60. Conservational protection

61. Cataloguing of the
Fidei Commiss Library

62. Ready for Digitisation …

63. Digitisation
→ Scanning Center in Germany
→ Procedures agreed
→ Austrian Federal Office for Monuments involved
→ Each volume checked after return
→ Books unavailable to users for ~ 3 months
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64. Book Logistics Digitisation
Data Download
ADOCO Quality Control
(Austrian Books Online
Download & Control)
Storage
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65. digitised items / year
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66. digitised items / day
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67. Quality control
→ Automated jobs
→ Representative samples
→ IT assisted discovery of error clusters
→ Error candidates checked manually
→Crowdsourcing?
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68. Book Viewer
Catalogue /
“Quick Search”
[Mobile Apps]
Full-Text Search
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69. Outlook
→ Full-Text: new possibilities for research
→ Data enrichment
→ Named Entity Recognition
→ Linked Data
→ New data centric research in the Humanities
& Social Sciences
→ http://www.diggingintodata.org/
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70. @maxkaiser

71. More information
www.onb.ac.at/ev/austrianbooksonline
www.onb.ac.at/ev/austrianbooksonline/faq.htm
twitter.com/abooksonline
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72. Thank you!
max.kaiser@onb.ac.at
www.onb.ac.at
www.linkedin.com/in/maxkaiser
twitter.com/maxkaiser
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