Presentation of ICARUS and its work in the cross border cooperation project "Memory without borders" - written historical sources of Austrian and Slovak archives online given by Thomas Aigner at the workshop „Modern face of archival science - archival documents online”, 5th of June 2012 in the The University Library in Bratislava

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

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. 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

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

9. type of book
duration
remarks
signature
Open book

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