The Austrian National Library partnered with Google to digitize its entire historical book collection from the 14th to 19th centuries, consisting of over 200 million pages from 600,000 volumes. This was the largest public-private partnership in Austria's cultural sector. The library handled tasks like selection, metadata, conservation while Google performed scanning and optical character recognition. The digitized books are available on Google Books and the library's digital library, providing open access to this significant historical collection.

1. Cooperating with Google
The Austrian National Library’s
large-scale digitisation partnership with Google
Max Kaiser
Head R&D, Austrian National Library
EVA / MINERVA 2011
Jerusalem 14–16 November, 2011
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2. Austrian Books Online
www.onb.ac.at/ev/austrianbooksonline/
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3. www.slideshare.net/maxkaiser
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4. Digitisation
of the entire historical
book holdings of the
Austrian National Library
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5. Largest Austrian
Public Private Partnership
in the cultural sector
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7. History back to the
14th century
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8. One of the world‘s
most significant
historical collections
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9. „Legal Deposit“ Quelle:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A
ustria_Hungary_ethnic_de.svg
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10. State Hall
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11. @maxkaiser http://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/siawd/siawd_halev.htm

12. @maxkaiser http://www.onb.ac.at/sammlungen/siawd/100hebraica.htm

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17. →Digitisation
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19. →Digitisation
→Online Publications
→Web Archiving
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20. 600,000 volumes
200 Mio pages
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21. 16th century
2nd half of
19th century _
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22. Google Books
Digital Library
Austrian National Library
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23. Partner Program
Google Books
Library Program
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24. 13 Libraries in Europe
5 National Libraries
 Italy
 Austria
 The Netherlands
 Czech Republic
 Great Britain
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25. >15 Mio. books
>3 Mio. public domain
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26. 10 January 2011
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/
doc/reflection_group/final_report_%20cds.pdf

27. „Stimulating the flow of private funds
for the digitisation of cultural assets through
equitable public private partnerships
appears as a viable and sustainable way
of tackling the pressing question
of making Europe’s cultural wealth
accessible online and preserving it
for future generations.“
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28. „The key question is not whether
public-private partnerships for digitisation
should be encouraged, but how‚
and under which conditions.“
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29. 27 October 2011

30. „(...) recommends that Member States (...)
encourage partnerships between cultural
institutions and the private sector in
order to create new ways of funding
digitisation of cultural material and to
stimulate innovative uses of the material,
while ensuring that public private
partnerships for digitisation are fair and
balanced (…).“
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31. Key principles:
1. Respect for intellectual property rights
→ Only public-domain works digitised
2. Non-exclusivity
→ Free to digitise material with other partners
3. Transparency of the process
→ Public Tender
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32. Key principles:
4. Transparency of agreements
→ Very detailed FAQs online
5. Accessibility through Europeana
→ All files available for non-commercial use
→ Access via platforms like Europeana
→ Provision to research partners
6. Key criteria
→ [Next slide]
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33. Key criteria for assessing PPPs
(selection):
→ (Free) access to material for general
public
→ Cross-border access
→ Quality of digital copies for public partner
→ Usage conditions for public partner
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34. Additional key elements:
→ Selection of books by library
→ Institute for Restoration involved
→ Termination
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35. Who is paying
for what?
http://www.bildarchivaustria.at/downl/1148453/layout/CE%2043_3.jpg

36. Costs
→ Full text-digitisation:
very expensive
→ Report by
Collections Trust
for Comité des Sages
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/
doc/refgroup/annexes/digiti_report.pdf
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37. Google:
→ Transport
→ Insurance
→ Scanning
→ OCR
→ Image processing
→ Quality control
→ Google Books
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38. 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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39. →Conservation
→Preservation
http://www.mediathek.at/akustische-chronik/popup/popup.php?document_id=1000115&zone_id=
1000043&template_id=1000016&zone_name=IMAGE_ZONE1

40. Which books?
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41. Entire historical
book holdings
16th –19th century

42. 200.000 volumes
State Hall
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43. Department of Manuscripts
and Rare Books
Map Department
Quelle: http://deu.archinform.net/projekte/107

44. Department of Music

45. Theatre Museum
Quelle: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palais_Lobkowitz_Vienna_Oct._2006_006.jpg

46. Fidei Commiss Library

47. @maxkaiser

48. 7 Work Packages
 Book logistics
 Metadata / Catalogues
 Conservation / Restoration
 Data download / Quality control
 Access
 IT infrastructure
 Project management
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49. Preparatory project
Mid - end 2010
→ Integration with organisational processes
→ Personnel resources
→ Logistics workflows
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50. Internal communication
→ Change processes
→ Re-evaluation of workflows
→ Availability of internal resources
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51. Consultation with other
Google partners
Quelle: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M%C3%BCnchen_Bayerische_Staatsbibliothek_001.JPG

52. 70+ staff members
20+ exclusively for project
→ Book logistics
→ Metadata adaptation
→ Cataloguing
→ Conservation / restoration
→ Quality control
→ Software implementation
→ Project management
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53. End of 2010
Test shipment & Start operational project
Spring 2011
Start of digitisation
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54. No individual selection …

55. Format

56. Format

57. Condition

58. Preparation

59. Conservational
evaluation

60. Value

61. Logistics in the
State Hall

62. Logistics in the
State Hall

63. Logistics in the
State Hall

64. Challenges…

65. Challenges…

66. Challenges…

67. Challenges…

68. Challenges…

69. Logistics in the
„Aurum“ Depot

70. Logistics in the
„Aurum“ Depot

71. Preparation for
Digitisation

72. Manipulation area …

73. Barcoding

74. Adaptation of metadata

75. @maxkaiser

76. 8 minutes / volume

77. books
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78. hours
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79. working days
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80. person years
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81. Complex cases …

82. Bound-Togethers …

83. Bound-Togethers …

84. Bound-Togethers …

85. „Slim“ volumes …

86. Special collections …

87. Conservational protection

88. Conservational protection

89. Conservational protection

90. @maxkaiser
Conservational protection

91. Cataloguing of the
Fidei Commiss Library

92. Cataloguing of the
Fidei Commiss Library

93. Ready for Digitisation …

94. 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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95. @maxkaiser

96. Book Logistics Digitisation
Data Download
ADOCO Quality Control
(Austrian Books Online
Download & Control)
Storage
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97. digitised items / day
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98. Quality control
→ Automated jobs
→ Representative samples
→ IT assisted discovery of error clusters
→ Error candidates checked manually
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101. Technologies and Workflows
from EC co-funded FP7 projects:
→ SCAPE
(Scalable Preservation Environments)
→http://www.scape-project.eu/
→ IMPACT
(Improving Access to Text)
→http://www.impact-project.eu/
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102. http://www.digitisation.eu/

103. Data Management & Access
→ Data storage: inhouse
→ JPEG-2000 master files stored redundantly
→ Access copies generated on-the-fly
→ URN resolver for permanent identification
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104. Book Viewer
Catalogue /
“Quick Search”
[Mobile Apps]
Full-Text Search
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105. USER
Book Viewer
Fulltext
Index Server
Quick Search Image Server
URN Resolver
Catalogue Digital Repository
Master Images
Google
ADOCO
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106. Outlook
→ Full-Text: new possibilities for research
→ Data enrichment
→ Named Entity Recognition
→ Linked Data
→ New data centric research in the Humanities
& Social Sciences
→ http://www.diggingintodata.org/
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107. @maxkaiser

108. http://books.google.com/books?vid=ONB%2BZ119586207
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109. http://books.google.com/books?vid=ONB%2BZ119586207
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110. More information
www.onb.ac.at/ev/austrianbooksonline
www.onb.ac.at/ev/austrianbooksonline/faq.htm
twitter.com/abooksonline
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111. Thank you!
max.kaiser@onb.ac.at
www.onb.ac.at
www.slideshare.net/maxkaiser
www.linkedin.com/in/maxkaiser
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