Austrian National Library Vision 2025 and Austrian Books Online

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Austrian National Library
Vision 2025 and
Austrian Books Online
Max Kaiser
Head of Research and Development
max.kaiser@onb.ac.at
Vienna, 5 December 2013

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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Goal: Reinforce role of

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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
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we support the further education of
users and the growth of competenc
our staff
→we make a contribution to the advance
of our knowledge society
we stand for
education
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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
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collect preserve
describe make
available foster
research

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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 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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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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70+ staff members of Austrian
National Library
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

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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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where are we today?

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end 2013

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no individual selection …

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logistics in the
State Hall

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preparation for
digitisation

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adaptation of metadata

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ready for digitisation …

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digitisation
→ scanning Center in Germany
→ 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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thank you!
max.kaiser@onb.ac.at
www.onb.ac.at
www.linkedin.com/in/maxkaiser
twitter.com/maxkaiser

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