EOD: Books On Demand Service Overview

1. EOD - the eBooks on Demand (EOD) networkSilvia Gstrein, University of Innsbruck/A (UIBK), Librarysilvia.gstrein@uibk.ac.at

2. 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,...

3. 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?

4. What is EOD?

5. [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?

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

7. 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

8. 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

10. ODM (Order Data Manager)

11. Who is currently offering the service?

12. 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

14. > 25 libraries, 12 countries • Co-ordinatorandcentralservice: University of Innsbruck, Library

15. EOD libraries

16. Network overview: Website

17. Where can the digitisation of books be ordered?

18. 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

19. EOD in „The European Library“

20. Where do the generated PDFs end up?

21. Repositories overview: Website • Examples: • Research Library of Olomouc • University of Innsbruck

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. Prices • Overview: • http://www.books2ebooks.eu/prices.php5 • Why charge anyway? • In an ideal world, the libraries would digitise for free • But…

26. Financing possibilities Library‘s own funds Public fundsEC/national funds ? • Any other model possible? • Not project based • Not timely limited • Bottom up = reader driven Private or commercial sponsors / the Google approach

27. 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.

28. Additional services?

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

30. Reprints I From a customer’s point of view: just one more click.

31. 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)

32. Any plans for the future?

33. 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

34. 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

35. The 20th century black hole?

36. 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

37. Thank you for your attention! Silvia.Gstrein@uibk.ac.at