austrian registers on their way into the web - icarus as coordinator, platform and actor

Austrian registers on their way into the web

ICARUS as coordinator, platform and actor

Thomas Aigner(Diözesanarchiv St. Pölten / ICARUS)

10 Roman catholic dioceses – 10 diocese archives

Different situations concerning storage of register books

Most of the books still scattered in the parishes

Legal obligation to make books accessible (1784-1938)

Huge pressure of genealogical research

Decrease of catholic church (members, parishes, priests)

Organizational problems and challenges

General situation

St. Pölten

Current Projects

Passau, diocese:

95% completed, 230 parishes online by september 2011

Upper Austria:

Digitisation completed, online since January 2011

Stiria / Maribor, diocese:

Project started sept. 2010

Vienna, archidiocese:

Project start November 2011, 40 parishes digitized

St. Pölten, diocese:

85% completed, 80 % online (340 parishes)

Vorarlberg:

Digitisation completed, online since the end of 2010

Burgenland:

10 parishes digitized

Different methods of digitisation

F. i. St. Pölten, Stiria F. i. Vorarlberg

Original records Microfilms

Scanequipment used

Zeutschel OS 12000

~600-700 pages/hour

Qidenus Qiscan

Semi-automated page turning, ~1000 pages/hour

Bookeye 4

~800-900 pages/hour, special feature: V-cradle as a 120° angled plate

Portalwww.matricula-online.eu

Metadatawww.matricula.findbuch.net

Imageswebservers partners

type of book

duration

remarks

signature

Open book

Thomas Aigner

St. Pölten Diocese Archives / ICARUS

Email: thomas.aigner@icar-us.eu

Web: www.icar-us.eu, www.dasp.at