Austrian National Library - Current initiatives, projects and the library’s Vision 2025

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Austrian National Library

Current initiatives, projects and the library’s Vision 2025

Max Kaiser Head of Research and Development

Austrian National Library [email protected]

Belgrade, 25 April 2014

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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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→Quelle:

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→„legal deposit“

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→books & periodicals: 3,77 Mio

→image material: 3,09 Mio

→electronic documents: 1,42 Mio

→archival material: 468.000

→maps: 297.000

→music printings: 135.000

→audio-visual material: 40.000

→museum objects: 59.000

→papyri: 141.000

→other material: 379.000

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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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→Austrian National Library subject to Federal Museums Act (“Bundesmuseen-Gesetz”) and the Library Regulations („Bibliotheksordnung“)

→Collection policy subject to legal deposit regulations in Austrian Media Law („Mediengesetz“)

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2013 data…

→staff: 387 heads / 315 FTEs

→budget: 26,2 Mio Euro

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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

Austria’s largest music archive

→+50.000 music manuscripts (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Viennese Court Music Orchestra, historic theatre archives)

→+130.000 music prints

→Text books, photogramme archives, sound recordings

→Bequests (Bruckner, Berg, …)

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world famous historical collection

→295,000 map sheets, 45,000 geographic-topographic views, 800,000 postcards, 700 globes, 83,000 book volumes

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Austria’s largest pictorial documentation centre

→+3 Mio objects: +1 Mio photographs and negatives, +600.000 graphic objects, 100.000 posters, portraits, ex libris etc.)

→+115.000 volumes of Fidei Commis Library (former private library of Habsburg family)

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collect estates of Austrian authors from the 20th and 21 th century

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→ State Hall

→ Papyrus Museum

→ Globe Museum

→ Esperanto Museum

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1723–1726

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180.000 objects, one of the

world’s largest collections

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Austrian literature from the 17th to the 21th century

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Information Services

Mo–Sa, 9–21 h

→On site

→Live chat

→Telephone

→Email

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events

→ literature salons

→music salons

→archival talks

→museum nights

→more than 1.500 guided tours

→special programs for schools and pupils

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2013: 150 events

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building and renovations

→all customer‘s areas adapted and renovated

→ readers‘ lounge built

→main reading room re-built

→all other reading rooms fully renovated or re-built

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building and renovations

→Palais Mollard renovated as new space for music department, esperanto and globe museums

→picture archives and graphics department fully renovated

→maps department fully renovated

→new reading rooms: Austriaca reading room and Wittgenstein reading room

→currently: literature museum

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adopt a book campaign

→adopt a book to support restoration and conservation

→more than 7,000 adopters have made it possible to restore thousands of individual books, manuscripts etc.

→donation: starting with 500 Euro

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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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→ Europeana Creative

→ Europeana v2.0

→ Europeana v3.0

→ Europeana Collections 1914–1918

→ Europeana Newspapers

→ Europeana Awareness

→ Europeana Food and Drinks

→ Europeana Sounds

→ DM2E

→ Enumerate

→ SCAPE

→ APARSEN

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creative re-use of digitised content

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content re-use

supports cultural heritage

institutions to fulfil their mission

fosters innovative ways of using

cultural heritage

main strategic goal of Europeana

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how?

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critical mass of content for re-use

Europeana Labs & technical infrastructure

Europeana Content Re-use Framework

co-creation events

five Pilots

series of challenge events with the creative

industries

incubation of the most viable projects

evaluation cycle

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

vision2025

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fundamental impact on production, storage and availability

of knowledge

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→how will we make tomorrow‘s knowledge available ?

→how can we contribute to shaping the knowledge society of tomorrow?

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reshaping of the library

as bridge between past

and future

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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 1

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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 2

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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 knowledge heritage

→we create a basis for cultural identity, social reflection, and the shaping of the future

we stand for

responsibility

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collect preserve describe make available foster research

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→ during 2011: long-term goals for all departments defined by department heads

→ end 2011: vision collated and discussed in working group

→ beginning 2012: draft vision document open for comments by all staff members

→ spring 2012: document sent to Library Board and Ministry of Culture

→ summer 2012: concise version of vision document produced

→ September 2012: presentation of Vision 2025

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strategic planning

strategic projects

Vision 2025

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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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→ 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 knowledge 2025

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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 simple 2025

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→ unified access system for all holdings and collections

→ focus in metadata enrichment

→ in-depth documentation of historical collections

→ links with external resources

→ innovative interfaces to our data

→ open data

→ data embedded in semantic web

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

→crowdsourcing

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faceted and simple 2025

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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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→ space for encounter and communication

→ digital services and reading rooms and museums

→ reinforce library as social space

→ foster user participation with our digital resources

→ user generated content

→ connect activities in museums and exhibitions with digital content

we enrich cultural and

social life 2025

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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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access for everyone from anywhere

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anno.onb.ac.at

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→Since 2003

→10+ Mio pages online free of charge

→1+ Mio pages added every year

→3.000 users per day

→Moving wall: -70 years

→2014: newspapers till 1943

→Full-text search for titles till 1875

→1875–… will be added shortly

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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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www.picturedesk.com

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→ curated and selected content of Austrian Press Agency (APA) is being archived by the Austrian National Library

→monthly updates

→growing collection of contemporary press photography

→ in exchange:

→picture material from the Picture Archives and Graphics Department is being distributed by APA‘s commercial image platform Picture Desk (approx. 65% of the digitised material)

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→800.000 picture postcards in Map Department

→75.000 postcards currently being digitised and geo-referenced

→will be made available end 2014

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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

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200.000 volumes

State Hall

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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%

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no year

centuries… Austrian Books

Online

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14%

29%

33%

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others

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Online

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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

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Server

Server data

processing

Tool

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