EOD — the e Books on Demand EOD

EOD - the e. Books on Demand (EOD) network Silvia Gstrein, University of Innsbruck/A (UIBK), Library silvia. gstrein@uibk. ac. at

§ University of Innsbruck § Library § Dept. for Digitisation & Electronic Preservation § Participation in national and international projects, e. g. METAe, re. USE, IMPACT, ARROW, Presto. Prime, Europeana. Connect, … § 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?

[source: http: //www. flickr. com/photos/timetrax/376152628/] § 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?

EOD – the service Incorporation into Digital Library & Europeana EOD button: digitising this book on request Library: scans & transfers images

EOD: The Libraries‘ point of view § Order Data Manager § Central database with web-interface § Administration of orders and generation of e. Books § 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 e. Books § 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 University Libraries of Innsbruck, Graz and Vienna (2 x), Austria Vienna City Library, St. Pölten Diocese Archives Bavarian State Library (Munich), University Libraries of Germany 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 Hungary National 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 Moravian Library (Brno), Research Library in Olomouc,

§ 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 BV 022512455 § 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 & Europeana. Connect www. europeana-connect. eu – Delivery of metadata of EOD e. Books to Europeana – Prototype of Print on Demand in Europeana § Goal: – First books will be delivered early 2011

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. books 2 ebooks. eu/prices. php 5 § Why charge anyway? – In an ideal world, the libraries would digitise for free – But…

Financing possibilities Library‘s own funds Public funds EC/national funds ? Private or commercial sponsors / the Google approach Any other model possible? §Not project based §Not timely limited §Bottom 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)

Reprints I From 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“ e. Books with corrected full text approximating 100% accuracy

The 20 th 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 attention! Silvia. Gstrein@uibk. ac. at