austrian registers on their way into the web - icarus as coordinator, platform and actor
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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 BratislavaTRANSCRIPT
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: [email protected]
Web: www.icar-us.eu, www.dasp.at