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

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collect preserve
describe make
available foster
research

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

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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

we enrich cultural
and social life

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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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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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→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

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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
lat
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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