ebooks on demand
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Silvia Gstrein, University of Innsbruck Cultural Heritage Online 2009, Florence, 16 December 2009TRANSCRIPT
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]
� 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?
EOD – the service
EOD button:
digitising this
Incorporation
into Digital
Library
digitising this
book on request
Library: scans &
transfers images
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
Who is currently offering the service?offering the service?
� Co-ordinator: University ofInnsbruck, Library
� More than 20 libraries from10 countries
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
EOD in „The European Library“
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
Experiences
User reactions
Fast!
Access to
books
otherwise
inaccessible
User reactions
Good
quality!
How can I get
books from 20th
century?
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
Reprints
From the user’s point of view: one more click
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
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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