Autrian Books Online - The Public Private Partnership of the Austrian National Library with Google
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Austrian Books Online
Max Kaiser
Head of Research and Development
Austrian National Library
max.kaiser@onb.ac.at
European Business Press Editors’ Seminar
Vienna, 26 March 2014
The Public Private Partnership of the
Austrian National Library with Google
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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
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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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→ 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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→ 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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→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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→ digital services and reading rooms and museums
→ reinforce library as social space
→ foster user participation with our digital resources
→ user generated content
we enrich cultural and
social life2025
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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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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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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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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