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 [email protected]

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


one of the world‘s

most significant

collections


Quelle:

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„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

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

vision2025

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Vision 2025 Knowledge 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

digitised 2025

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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 knowledge 2025

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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 simple 2025

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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 simple 2025


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 life 2025

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access for everyone from anywhere

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Austrian Books Online

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Austrian Books Online www.onb.ac.at/ev/austrianbooksonline/

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

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digitisation of the entire historical book holdings of the Austrian National Library

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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

Austrian National 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?

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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

@maxkaiser Quelle: http://deu.archinform.net/projekte/10734.htm

Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books

Map Department

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Department of Music

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Theatre Museum

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Fidei Commiss Library

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Workflow

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„book flow“

„digital flow“

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book flow

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no individual selection …

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size

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condition

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conservational evaluation

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value

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logistics in the

State Hall

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challenges…

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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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8 minutes / volume

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600.000 books

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80.000 hours

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10.256 working days

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48,8 person years

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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 flow digital 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

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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!

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@maxkaiser ~215.000 volumes 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.

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Austrian Books

Online

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Catalogue / “Quick Search”

full-text search

ABO Book Viewer

ANNO newspaper portal

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ABO

Book Viewer

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outlook

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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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Data

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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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