Talk at the 5th International Colloquium of Library and Information Experts of the V4+ Countries

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The Austrian National Library’s
Vision 2025
5th International Colloquium of Library and
Information Experts of the V4+ Countries
Max Kaiser
Head of Research and Development
Austrian National Library
max.kaiser@onb.ac.at
@maxkaiser
Bratislava, 8–9 June, 2015

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www.slideshare.net/maxkaiser

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history back to the
14th century

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one of the world‘s
most significant
collections

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→since 2002: Austrian National Library
legally fully autonomous institution
→no longer under federal administration
→legal form: „Scientific public-law
institution“
→yearly global budget
→management independent in staff
development, budget, setting of priorities
etc.
→CEO reports to a board of trustees

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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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2014: 122 events

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→editorial projects
→e.g. editing of papyrus texts, historico-
critical editions of authors
→cultural studies projects
→e.g. gender studies, theory of biography,
newspapers history
→library research projects
→e.g. provenance of library holdings, book
technology and conservation
→cataloguing projects
→digital library research projects

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fundamental impact on
production, storage and availability
of knowledge

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

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collect preserve
describe make
available foster
research

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everyone in the world has unrestricted
access to our collections
→this enables creativity and inspiration
→this contributes to development of society
and scientific progress
we stand for free
access to knowledge
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we preserve our heritage in order to
make it available for the scholarly and
social debate
→we contribute to the creation of new ideas
→innovation and creativity are based on
strategic planning
we stand for
innovation
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we support the further education of our
users and the growth of competence of
our staff
→we make a contribution to the advancement
of our knowledge society
we stand for
education
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we care about our mandate to preserve
our heritage
→we create a basis for cultural identity, social
reflection, and the shaping of the future
we stand for
responsibility
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strategic planning
strategic projects
Vision 2025

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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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→ cooperate with other National Libraries
→ cooperate with private partners
→ lobby for legal solutions to enable digitisation of
orphan works and out-of-print works
Our holdings are digitized
how?

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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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→ amendment of Austrian legal deposit
regulations
→ cooperate with others in digital preservation
how?
We collect and sustain knowledge

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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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→ unified access system for all holdings and
collections
→ in-depth documentation of historical collections
→ links with external resources
→ innovative interfaces to our data
→ open data
2025
Access to our knowledge is simple

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→invest in metadata, data quality and
interfaces
→enrich our metadata with external
information
→engage in Open Data
how?
Access to our knowledge is simple

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→digital content integrated with virtual
research environments
→tailored digital services for researchers
→digital humanities
with us, research is more
faceted and simple2025

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→ APIs / open data
→ cooperation with researchers
→ “Researchers in Residence” programs
how?
With us, research is more faceted and simple

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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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→open interfaces and APIs
→crowdsourcing projects
→work with private partners
how?
We enrich cultural and social life

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1. Future of catalogues
Consolidation of catalogues / search
technologies
2. Digitisation
Implementation of Digital Library, digitisation
of books, newspapers and collections
3. IT Strategy
Hardware and software strategy, security

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4. Digital Preservation, Access and Library
Systems
New system for long-term preservation of
digital resources; presentation platform for
different types of digital objects
5. Business Models
Services and licensing
6. Research
Presentation and publication of research results

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7. Web 2.0
Social Media Strategy
8. Full Text Search
OCR, search technologies
9. Austrian Books Online
PPP with Google, Digitisation of entire historical
book collection

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access for everyone
from anywhere

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anno.onb.ac.at

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→Since 2003
→11+ Mio pages online free of charge
→1+ Mio pages added every year
→3.000 users per day
→Moving wall: -70 years
→2015: newspapers till 1944
→Full-text search

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anno.onb.ac.at

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www.bildarchivaustria.at

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→More than 490.000 digitised images
→210.000+ photographs
→190.000+ printed graphics
→65.000+ posters

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→800.000 picture postcards in Map
Department
→75.000 postcards currently being digitised
and geo-referenced

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Austrian Books Online
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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entire historical
book holdings
16th–19th century

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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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March 2015
~300.000volumes digitised

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Google Books
Digital Library
Austrian National Library

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outlook
→ full-text: new possibilities for research
→ new data centric research in the Humanities
& Social Sciences

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thank you!
max.kaiser@onb.ac.at
www.onb.ac.at
twitter.com/maxkaiser
www.linkedin.com/in/maxkaiser
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