Austrian National Library - Current initiatives, projects and the library’s Vision 2025

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Austrian National Library
Current initiatives, projects and
the library’s Vision 2025
Max Kaiser
Head of Research and Development
max.kaiser@onb.ac.at
Belgrade, 25 April 2014

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history back to the
14th century

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one of the world‘s
most significant
collections

→Quelle:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A
ustria_Hungary_ethnic_de.svg
→„legal deposit“

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→books & periodicals: 3,77 Mio
→image material: 3,09 Mio
→electronic documents: 1,42 Mio
→archival material: 468.000
→maps: 297.000
→music printings: 135.000
→audio-visual material: 40.000
→museum objects: 59.000
→papyri: 141.000
→other material: 379.000

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→since 2002: Austrian National Library
legally fully autonomous institution
→no longer under federal administration
→legal form: „Scientific public-law
institution“
→yearly global budget
→management independent in staff
development, budget, setting of priorities
etc.
→CEO reports to a board of trustees

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→Austrian National Library subject to
Federal Museums Act (“Bundesmuseen-
Gesetz”) and the Library Regulations
(„Bibliotheksordnung“)
→Collection policy subject to legal deposit
regulations in Austrian Media Law
(„Mediengesetz“)

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2013 data…
→staff: 387 heads / 315 FTEs
→budget: 26,2 Mio Euro

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→ Picture Archives and Graphics Department
→ Map Department
→ Music Department
→ Literary Archives
→ Papyri Department
→ Department of Planned Languages
→ Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts

Austria’s largest music archive
→ +50.000 music manuscripts (Haydn, Mozart,
Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Viennese Court
Music Orchestra, historic theatre archives)
→ +130.000 music prints
→ Text books, photogramme archives, sound
recordings
→ Bequests (Bruckner, Berg, …)

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world famous historical collection
→295,000 map sheets, 45,000 geographic-
topographic views, 800,000 postcards,
700 globes, 83,000 book volumes

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Austria’s largest pictorial documentation centre
→ +3 Mio objects: +1 Mio photographs and negatives,
+600.000 graphic objects, 100.000 posters, portraits,
ex libris etc.)
→ +115.000 volumes of Fidei Commis Library (former
private library of Habsburg family)

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collect estates of Austrian authors from the 20th
and 21 th century

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→ State Hall
→ Papyrus Museum
→ Globe Museum
→ Esperanto Museum

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180.000 objects, one of the
world’s largest collections

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Austrian literature from the
17th to the 21th century

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Information Services
Mo–Sa, 9–21 h
→On site
→Live chat
→Telephone
→Email

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events
→literature salons
→music salons
→archival talks
→museum nights
→more than 1.500 guided tours
→special programs for schools and pupils

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building and renovations
→all customer‘s areas adapted and
renovated
→readers‘ lounge built
→main reading room re-built
→all other reading rooms fully renovated or
re-built

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building and renovations
→Palais Mollard renovated as new space for
music department, esperanto and globe
museums
→picture archives and graphics department
fully renovated
→maps department fully renovated
→new reading rooms: Austriaca reading
room and Wittgenstein reading room
→currently: literature museum

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adopt a book campaign
→adopt a book to support restoration and
conservation
→more than 7,000 adopters have made it
possible to restore thousands of individual
books, manuscripts etc.
→donation: starting with 500 Euro

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→editorial projects
→e.g. editing of papyrus texts, historico-
critical editions of authors
→cultural studies projects
→e.g. gender studies, theory of biography,
newspapers history
→library research projects
→e.g. provenance of library holdings, book
technology and conservation
→cataloguing projects
→digital library research projects

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→ Europeana Creative
→ Europeana v2.0
→ Europeana v3.0
→ Europeana Collections 1914–1918
→ Europeana Newspapers
→ Europeana Awareness
→ Europeana Food and Drinks
→ Europeana Sounds
→ DM2E
→ Enumerate
→ SCAPE
→ APARSEN

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creative re-use
of digitised
content

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content re-use
supports cultural heritage
institutions to fulfil their mission
fosters innovative ways of using
cultural heritage
main strategic goal of Europeana

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critical mass of content for re-use
Europeana Labs & technical infrastructure
Europeana Content Re-use Framework
co-creation events
five Pilots
series of challenge events with the creative
industries
incubation of the most viable projects
evaluation cycle

September 2012
http://www.onb.ac.at/
vision2025

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fundamental impact on
production, storage and availability
of knowledge

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→how will we make tomorrow‘s
knowledge available ?
→how can we contribute to
shaping the knowledge society of
tomorrow?

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reshaping of the library
as bridge between past
and future

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everyone in the world has unrestricted
access to our collections
→this enables creativity and inspiration
→this contributes to development of society
and scientific progress
we stand for free
access to knowledge
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we preserve our heritage in order to
make it available for the scholarly and
social debate
→we contribute to the creation of new ideas
→innovation and creativity are based on
strategic planning
we stand for
innovation
2

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we support the further education of our
users and the growth of competence of
our staff
→we make a contribution to the advancement
of our knowledge society
we stand for
education
3

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we care about our mandate to preserve
our knowledge heritage
→we create a basis for cultural identity, social
reflection, and the shaping of the future
we stand for
responsibility
4

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collect preserve
describe make
available foster
research

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→ during 2011: long-term goals for all
departments defined by department heads
→ end 2011: vision collated and discussed in
working group
→ beginning 2012: draft vision document open for
comments by all staff members
→ spring 2012: document sent to Library Board
and Ministry of Culture
→ summer 2012: concise version of vision
document produced
→ September 2012: presentation of Vision 2025

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strategic planning
strategic projects
Vision 2025

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Vision 2025Knowledge for the world of tomorrow
Our holdings are digitized
We collect and sustain knowledge
Access to our knowledge is simple
With us, research is more faceted and effective
We enrich cultural and social life

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→ substantial part of our book collections digitised
→ full-text search
→ important parts of other collections digitised
→ all our services are digital
our holdings are
digitised2025

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→ cooperate with other National Libraries
→ cooperate with private partners
→ lobby for legal solutions to enable digitisation of
orphan works and out-of-print works
Our holdings are digitized
how?

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→ focal point of our collection policy is digital
→ collect user-generated content and new digital
formats
→ scalable system for digital long-term
preservation
we collect and
sustain knowledge2025

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→ amendment of Austrian legal deposit
regulations
→ cooperate with others in digital preservation
how?
We collect and sustain knowledge

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→ enrich metadata and connect with semantic
web
→ link with external metadata (e.g. geo data)
→ build innovative (e.g. visual) interfaces
→ Open (Linked) Data
access to knowledge
is simple2025

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→ unified access system for all holdings and
collections
→ focus in metadata enrichment
→ in-depth documentation of historical collections
→ links with external resources
→ innovative interfaces to our data
→ open data
→ data embedded in semantic web
2025

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→invest in metadata, data quality and
interfaces
→enrich our metadata with external
information
→engage in Open Data
how?

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→digital content integrated with virtual
research environments
→tailored digital services for researchers
→digital humanities
→crowdsourcing
with us, research is more
faceted and simple2025

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→ APIs / open data
→ cooperation with researchers
→ “Researchers in Residence” programs
how?
With us, research is more faceted and simple

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we enrich cultural
and social life

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→ space for encounter and communication
→ digital services and reading rooms and museums
→ reinforce library as social space
→ foster user participation with our digital resources
→ user generated content
→ connect activities in museums and exhibitions
with digital content
we enrich cultural and
social life2025

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→open interfaces and APIs
→crowdsourcing projects
→work with private partners
how?
We enrich cultural and social life

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access for everyone
from anywhere

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→Since 2003
→10+ Mio pages online free of charge
→1+ Mio pages added every year
→3.000 users per day
→Moving wall: -70 years
→2014: newspapers till 1943
→Full-text search for titles till 1875
→1875–… will be added shortly

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www.bildarchivaustria.at

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→More than 490.000 digitised images
→210.000+ photographs
→190.000+ printed graphics
→65.000+ posters

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www.picturedesk.com

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→ curated and selected content of Austrian Press
Agency (APA) is being archived by the Austrian
National Library
→ monthly updates
→ growing collection of contemporary press
photography
→ in exchange:
→ picture material from the Picture Archives and
Graphics Department is being distributed by APA‘s
commercial image platform Picture Desk (approx.
65% of the digitised material)

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→800.000 picture postcards in Map
Department
→75.000 postcards currently being digitised
and geo-referenced
→will be made available end 2014

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Austrian Books Online

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Austrian Books Online
www.onb.ac.at/ev/austrianbooksonline/

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digitisation
of the entire historical
book holdings of the

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largest Austrian
public private partnership
in the cultural sector

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600,000 volumes
200 Mio pages

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Google Books
Digital Library

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Partner Program
Library Program
Google Books

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13 Libraries in Europe
5 National Libraries
 Italy
 Austria
 The Netherlands
 Czech Republic
 Great Britain

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>20 Mio. books
> 50% non-English
~ 75% from libraries
~ 2 Mio. books from European libraries
> 3 Mio. books public domain

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→long duration of the cooperation
→substantial investment by both partners
→distribution of responsibilities and risks

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→ intellectual property rights
→ public domain works only
→ non-exclusivity
→ ONB free to digitise material with
other partners
→ transparency of process and
agreement
→ public tender
→ detailed online FAQs

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→ access
→ all files available free-of-charge for non-
commercial use
→ access via platforms like Europeana
→ provision to research partners

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who is paying
for what?
http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/downl/1148453/layout/CE%2043_3.jpg

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Google:
→transport
→insurance
→scanning
→OCR
→image processing
→quality control
→Google Books

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Austrian National Library:
→ provision of metadata
→ selection
→ internal logistics
→ conservational assessment
→ barcoding
→ metadata adjustments
→ data download and control
→ data storage & digital preservation
→ Digital Library

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70+ ONB staff members
20+ exclusively for project
→ book logistics
→ metadata adaptation
→ cataloguing
→ conservation / restoration
→ quality control
→ software implementation
→ project management

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entire historical
book holdings
16th–19th century

200.000 volumes
State Hall

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Quelle: http://deu.archinform.net/projekte/1073
Department of Manuscripts
and Rare Books
Map Department

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Department of Music

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

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Fidei Commiss Library

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„book flow“
„digital flow“

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no individual selection …

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conservational
evaluation

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logistics in the
State Hall

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logistics in the
„Aurum“ Depot

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preparation for
digitisation

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manipulation area …

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adaptation of metadata

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10.256 working days

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bound-togethers …

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conservational protection

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cataloguing the
Fidei Commiss Library

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ready for digitisation …

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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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book flowdigital flow

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digitisation
data download
book logistics
quality control
storage
access
ADOCO
(Austrian Books Online
Download & Control)

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quality control
→goal: automated jobs
→representative samples
→IT assisted discovery of error clusters
→error candidates checked manually
→detect systematic
and critical errors

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bleedthrough
non-critical

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cropping
error
critical!

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quality control
via sampling
re-processing
re-download

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cropping
error
fixed!

@maxkaiser~215.000volumes digitised
March 2013

@maxkaiser~68,5 Mio.pages
March 2013

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10%
13%
31%
44%
2%
16. Jh.
17. Jh.
18. Jh.
19. Jh.
no year
centuries…Austrian Books
Online

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3%
12%
14%
29%
33%
9%
eng
ita
fre
lat
ger
others
languages…Austrian Books
Online

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0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
16. Jh. 17. Jh. 18. Jh. 19. Jh.
eng
ita
fre
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ger
Austrian Books
Online

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Catalogue /
“Quick Search”
full-text search
ABO
Book Viewer
ANNO
newspaper portal

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outlook
→ full-text: new possibilities for research
→e.g. named entities search
→ data enrichment
→ linked data
→ new data centric research in the Humanities
& Social Sciences

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critical mass
of digitally available texts
and (meta) data
new research questions
to textual material?

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ÖNB
Hadoop-
Cluster

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close reading
distant reading
interpretation / analysis /
edition of individual texts
analysis of Big Data
textmining

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metadata
digitised
collections
data fata
data
Server
Server
Server
Server
Server
data
processing
Tool
Tool
Tool
Tool

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thank you!
max.kaiser@onb.ac.at
www.onb.ac.at
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www.linkedin.com/in/maxkaiser
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