eod - the ebooks on demand (eod) network silvia gstrein, university of innsbruck/a (uibk), library...
TRANSCRIPT
EOD - the eBooks on Demand (EOD) network
Silvia Gstrein, University of Innsbruck/A (UIBK), Library
University of Innsbruck Library Dept. for Digitisation & Electronic Preservation
Participation in national and international projects, e.g. METAe, reUSE, IMPACT, ARROW, PrestoPrime, EuropeanaConnect,…
Other digitisation projects: English Dialect Dictionary, Innsbruck newspaper archive, IPACs, German theses,...
Table of content
Short overview of service Who takes part? Where can the digitisation of books be
ordered? Where do the generated PDFs end up? Additional services?
What is EOD?
Digital document supply service Books Public domain High quality digitisation, cover to cover
Simple question: how can someone who needs a book in digital form receive this book, here and now, if it has not yet been digitized?
[source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/timetrax/376152628/]
EOD – the service
EOD button: digitising this
book on request
Incorporation into Digital Library &
Europeana
Library: scans & transfers
images
EOD: The Libraries‘ point of view
Order Data Manager Central database with web-interface Administration of orders and generation of eBooks Each library with access to its own orders only Generation of automated e-mails to customers Customer: Tracking page with status update Order form and tracking page in > 10 languages Central management of credit card payments
EOD: The Libraries‘ point of view
Digital Object Generator Central service for generating eBooks Transfer of scanned images from library to central
service via FTP OCR recognition (antiqua and gothic) Automated cover generation PDF & RTF delivery Abbyy XML for library Streaming link for download generation
ODM (Order Data Manager)
Who is currently offering the service?
Project history
EU project „Digitisation on Demand“ October 2006 – June 2008
Start 2007 with 13 libraries in 8 countries Market validation and pilot implementations July 2008: Start of self sustained network 2009-2013: co-funding
> 25 libraries, 12 countries
Co-ordinator and central service: University of Innsbruck, Library
EOD libraries Austria
University Libraries of Innsbruck, Graz and Vienna (2x),
Vienna City Library, St. Pölten Diocese Archives
GermanyBavarian State Library (Munich), University Libraries of Regensburg, Greifswald, Berlin (Humboldt University), Leipzig, Saxon State Library (Dresden)
Denmark Royal Library
Estonia National Library, University Library of Tartu
France Medical and Dental Academic Library of Paris
HungaryNational Széchényi Library of Hungary, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Science
Portugal National Library
Slovakia University Library of Bratislava, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Slovenia National and University Library
Sweden University Library of Umeå
Switzerland National Library of Switzerland
Czech Republic
Moravian Library (Brno), Research Library in Olomouc, National Technical Library, Library of the Czech Academy
Network overview:
Website
Where can the digitisation of books be ordered?
Examples of catalogues:– Swiss National Library:
www.helveticat.ch, Robinson 1799
– Digitised Image Catalogues: University of Innsbruck
– Union Catalogues: Bavarian Library Network BV022512455 Common Library Network GBV Austrian Union Catalogue
EOD in „The European Library“
Where do the generated PDFs end up?
Repositories overview:
Website Examples:
– Research Library of Olomouc– University of Innsbruck
EOD & EuropeanaConnect
– Delivery of metadata of EOD eBooks to Europeana
– Prototype of Print on Demand in Europeana
Goal:– First books will be delivered early 2011
www.europeana-connect.eu
How can Europeana benefit?
User driven & selected textual material Broad (and growing) range of countries
and libraries Access to
– high quality content– important content– content from libraries without (harvestable)
repository
Facts & Figures Quantities:
– 4000 books = approx. 1 Mio pages– 2000 customers– 2 out of 3 cost estimations accepted– Top 3 libraries: 1 request / working day– 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
Prices
Overview:– http://www.books2ebooks.eu/prices.php5
Why charge anyway?– In an ideal world, the libraries would digitise
for free– But…
Financing possibilities
?
Library‘s own funds
Library‘s own funds
Public fundsEC/national funds
Public fundsEC/national funds
Private or commercial sponsors / the Google
approach
Private or commercial sponsors / the Google
approach
Any other model possible?
Not project basedNot timely limitedBottom up = reader driven
Any other model possible?
Not project basedNot timely limitedBottom up = reader driven
– only co-funding by user: only part of actual scanning and OCR license costs
covered
– no overheads covered– no long term preservation costs covered– Etc.
Additional services?
Used functions of EOD files (in % of respondents; n = 181, source: EOD user survey 2008)
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Browse & Zoom
Print single pages
Print whole book
Full text search
Copy & Paste
unused
other
Reprints IFrom a customer’s point of view: just one more click.
Reprints II
Central service tasks– Image enhancement– Creation of pre-press PDF, ONIX file and
cover file– Delivery to print service provider(s)– Contracts with service provider(s)
Any plans for the future?
Future perspective:More visibility
What we will realise: More libraries, hopefully more countries Other type of institutions: e.g archives Central search engine for books available for
EOD service Beta version
Pilot with OCLC Worldcat for implementation of EOD button Planned start: next months
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
corrected full text approximating 100% accuracy
The 20th century black hole?
Some ideas– Individual agreements with publishers– Making use of extended collective licenses– ARROW - Accessible Registries of Rights
Information and Orphan Works http://arrow-net.eu Tool to carry out diligent search querying
databases (right holder databases, books in print databases)
Prototypes for Germany, France, Spain and UK
Thank you for your [email protected]