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Silvia Gstrein, University of Innsbruck Cultural Heritage Online 2009, Florence, 16 December 2009

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Selection preferences (MINERVA)

?

Otherwise

unavailable

material

Popular

material

Condition of

the originals

Preservation

of delicate Appropriate

? of delicate

originals

Project

theme

Copyright

& IPR

Other

digital

versions

Costs

for online

viewing

[Clissmann 2004: MINERVA Good Practices Handbook]

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� What happens to and who will take care of those

materials not covered by the current projects?

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materials not covered by the current projects?

� How can individual users‘ needs been considered in

digitisation?

� Who will digitise books of minor languages or those from

special or smaller collections or institutions?

� From the user´s point-of view: how can someone who

needs a book in digital form receive this book, here and

now, if it has not yet been digitized?

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EOD – the service

EOD button:

digitising this

Incorporation

into Digital

Library

digitising this

book on request

Library: scans &

transfers images

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EOD: The Libraries‘ point of view

� Order Data Manager– Central database with web-interface

� Each library has access to its own orders only

� According to its needs each library is able to customise the website texts, automatically generated email texts, etc.

� Central management of credit card payments� Central management of credit card payments

� Digital Object Generator– Central service for generating eBooks

� OCR recognition (antiqua and gothic)

� Automated cover generation

� PDF & RTF delivery

� Abbyy XML for library

� Streaming link for download generation

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Who is currently offering the service?offering the service?

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� Co-ordinator: University ofInnsbruck, Library

� More than 20 libraries from10 countries

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EOD members

AustriaUniversity Libraries of Innsbruck, Graz and Vienna (2x),

Vienna City Library

GermanyBavarian State Library (Munich), University Libraries of Regensburg, Greifswald, Berlin (Humboldt University), Saxon State Library (Dresden)

Czech Republic

Moravian Library (Brno), Research Library in Olomouc, National Technical Library, Library of the Czech Academy of Science Science

Denmark Royal Library

Estonia National Library, University Library of Tartu

France Medical and Dental Academic Library of Paris

Portugal National Library

Slovakia University Library of Bratislava

Slovenia National and University Library

HungaryNational Széchényi Library of Hungary, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Science

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EOD in „The European Library“

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Facts & Figures

� Quantities:

– Approx. 3200 books = approx. 840.000 pages

– 1900 customers

– Top 3 libraries: 1 order / working day

– Quite big differences between libraries– Quite big differences between libraries

� Delivery time

– average 7 working days

� Average price of order: about 5-10 EUR basic fee + 0,15–0,30 EUR per page

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Experiences

User reactions

Fast!

Access to

books

otherwise

inaccessible

User reactions

Good

quality!

How can I get

books from 20th

century?

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Used functions of EOD files (in % of respondents; n = 181, source: EOD user survey 2008)

Copy & Paste

unused

other

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

Browse & Zoom

Print single pages

Print whole book

Full text search

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Reprints

From the user’s point of view: one more click

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EC Culture programme

PROJECT 2009-2013

Objectives:

� to enlarge the EOD network with new European

members

� to take EOD as a best practice model for a � to take EOD as a best practice model for a

European-wide cooperation, to train stakeholders

to run a similar multinational cultural service

� to support intercultural dialogue among

readers and users of historical books with the

help of web 2.0 technology

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Future perspective:More „on demand“ products

� What we would like to realise:

− Digitisation on demand for blind

and visually impaired

− Creation of „real“ eBooks with − Creation of „real“ eBooks with

corrected full text approximating

100% accuracy

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