14,30 14,45 h. johanna rachinger

Austrian Books OnlineThe Austrian National Library‘s Public Private Partnership with Google

27th May, 2011Dr. Johanna [email protected]

Austrian Books Online I The Austrian National Library‘s Public Private Partnership with Google

Dr. Johanna Rachinger, 27th May, 2011page 2

The Austrian National Library

One of the 5 most important historic book collections in the world




Modern Library and 8 Special Collections

• Picture Archives and Graphics Department

• Map Department

• Department of Music

• Literary Archives

• Department of Papyri

• Department of Planned Languages

• Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books

Total stock: 8 Mio. objects




Reading Rooms with state-of-the-art communication technology

Modern Library



Digitization efforts in the Austrian National Library

AustriaN Newspapers Online grants access to 6 Mio. pages of historic newspapers

ANNO



Digitization efforts in the Austrian National Library

In current ambitious projects: 5.000 volumes are digitized per year > the time factor plays an important role!



Key data project Austrian Books Online

• 6 years duration

• 600.000 volumes

• 180 Mio pages overall

• 30 Mio digital copies / year

• 143.000 digital copies / day



Cornerstones of the Public-Private Partnership

• Only public domain material may be digitised

• The cooperation with Google is non-exclusive

• We receive copies of all digitised items and can put them online for non-commercial use

• Both partners are obliged to make all of the digitised items available for online access free of charge

• We can make our digitised items available via other platforms

• We are fully autonomous in our decisions on which books are to be digitised

• The logistics and digitisation processes are accompanied and evaluated by our Restoration Institute



Public debate

“This coup by the National Library has saved it 30 million euros, places it in the digital avantgarde, and creates for its readers and scholars in the whole world significantly facilitated conditions for reading and working. What formerly had to be garnered by wearying physical means in the best libraries or was not available at all, is now only a click of the mouse away. That will accelerate research, throw new light on the holdings of the best institutions, and unburden the reading rooms.”

(Die Presse, 16.6.2010, p. 31)



Public debate

“why representatives of authors or publishers, instead of looking at the possibilities opened up for books (and readers), are painting fear scenarios, while the allegedly most conservative group of participants, the libraries, are going ahead and helping to shape the future.”

(Der Standard, 25.6.2010, p. 35)



Book pulling

Project Austrian Books Online: Workflow impressions



Conservatory measures




Barcoding




Metadata Ammendments




Book preparation




Some challenges:

Historic book shelves and book pulling hindrances



Some challenges:

Books in 3 to 4 consecutive rows



Some challenges:

Large formats



Project goals 2012

• Access via electronic catalogue of the Austrian National Library

• Access also via Europeana and the European Library portal

EXCLUSIVELY PUBLIC DOMAIN WORKS



Further Information

http://www.onb.ac.at/austrianbooksonline

http://www.onb.ac.at/austrianbooksonline/faq.htm

twitter.com/abooksonline

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