Bibliography in the Digital Age - IFLA Satellite Meeting Warsaw, 9 August 2012 1 Online materials published in Austria collecting, archiving and metadata

Bibliography in the Digital Age - IFLA Satellite Meeting Warsaw, 9 August 2012 1

Online materials published in Austria

collecting, archiving and metadata

9 August 2012


Topics

• Austrian National Library• Legal situation in Austria• Web@rchive Austria• E-pubs• Metadata• Plans

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Austrian National Library• Largest scientific

library in Austria• Entitled „National

Library“ since 1920, with a history dating back into the 14th century

• About 350 employees

• Holdings: about 8 million objects

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Legal situation in Austria• Austrian Media Act 1981 included

only printed works• Amendment from 2000 included

digital offline media (such as CD-ROM, DVD or diskette) in legal deposit legislation

• Amendment from 2009 mandates the Austrian National Library to collect and archive online media

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Web@rchive Austria (1)• Webarchiving started in 2008• Access started in May 2010• Storage and back-up outsourced to

Austrian Federal Computing Centre

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Web@rchive Austria (2)

• Staff– 2 FTE, department Digital Library

• Hardware– 8 crawlers

• Software (open source only)– crawler Heritrix– crawl management NetarchiveSuite– access with Wayback Machine

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• Strategies

combination of– domain harvesting– selective harvesting– event harvesting

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Web@archive Austria (4)• Domain harvesting

– started in 2009– top-level domains .at– other domains content related to Austria– harvested up to 100 MB– crawling every 2 years– currently second crawl finished

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• Selective harvesting– started in 2010– highly dynamic, constantly changing

sites– harvested in specific intervals

• Media collection (ongoing)• Literature collection (starting)

– Harvested up to level 5 to 7

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• Event harvesting– started in 2008– mostly temporary sites– collected at special events/occasions

• elections (Austrian and European elections 2008)

• sport events (EURO 2008)– harvested up to level 5 to 7

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Web@rchive Austria (7)• Access

– on site at the Austrian National Library (special terminals)

– and at 20 other authorized libraries (National Archives, Parliament, state und university libraries)

– open for everybody, not only researchers– restricted to reading and printing, download

and forwarding are prohibited

See screencasts under http://www.screenr.com/user/AT_Webarchive

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E-pubs (1)

• Staff– 2 FTE

• Hardware– 1 server

• Software– repository software DigiTool

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E-pubs (2)

• Strategies– e-books, e-journals, e-dissertations– „e-only“ publications– information from publisher

or inquiry by Austrian National Library– contracts with libraries concerning e-

dissertations– collecting manually (now) and

automatically (planned)– format preferred: PDF/A and XML

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E-pubs (3)

• Workflow– information by publisher/inquiry through

ANL– identification and check („e-only“)– definition of rights– collecting

• Retrieval• decision on document type• storage on server Scirius

– 1. release

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E-pubs (4)

• Workflow (continued)– descriptive cataloguing of the resource in

the library system Aleph (record is marked as data set for the national bibliography and will be published in the next issue)

– assignment of the Aleph system number to the document in DigiTool

– 2. release– subject indexing– 3. release– ingest in DigiTool

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E-pubs (5)

• Access– on site at the Austrian National Library

(special terminals)– with consent of the publisher also remote

access– open for everybody, not only researchers– restricted to reading and printing,

download and forwarding are prohibited

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Metadata for online materials• Metadata

– basically provide data for • description• organisation• exchange

– in the case of digital objects not only• descriptive,• structural and • administrative data is important for access and management

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Metadata Web@rchive (1)

– no descriptive metadata– only structural and administrative

metadata

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Metadata Web@rchive (2)• Structural metadata

– information on structure of digital objects

– defines relations of multipart objects

– METS is used at Austrian National Library

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Metadata Web@rchive (3)• Administrative metadata

– technical metadata– rights metadata– preservation metadata– identification metadata

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Metadata Web@rchive (4)• Technical metadata

– information on technical characteristics, format etc. of an object

– different according to the format of the objectf.e. Z39.87/MIX for images

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Metadata Web@rchive (5)• Rights metadata

– information on copyright, access rights

– a self-defined data model is used by the Austrian National Library

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Metadata Web@rchive (6)• Preservation metadata

– information on the necessary technical environment (hardware and software)

– PREMIS is used for electronic offline publications at the Austrian National Library

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Metadata Web@rchive (7)• Identification metadata

– persistant idetifiers to ensure a stable access

– the Austrian National Library will use URNs

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Metadata e-pubs (1)

• Structural metadata• Administrative metadata

– Technical metadata(generated automatically at time of ingesting)

– Rights metadata– Identification metadata

(PID generated at time of ingesting, URN is planned)

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Metadata e-pubs (2)

• Descriptive metadata– created by cataloguing staff of Austrian

National Library in Aleph– MAB data is transferred from Aleph to

Digitool (system number via port) and stored as Dublin Core Qualified

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Perspectives, plans, challenges

• pressure of time– highly dynamic websites– “collect now, ask later“– retrievability

• building more collections– literature collection just starting– collection of Austria(n) libraries in and outside

Austria• automatization of collection for e-pubs• preservation of web archives (partner institution

of project Scape• one-stop shop for all digital resources

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Thank your for your

attention!

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