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Presentation of ICARUS and its work in the cross border cooperation project "Memory without borders" - written historical sources of Austrian and Slovak archives online given by Thomas Aigner at the workshop „Modern face of archival science - archival documents online”, 5th of June 2012 in the The University Library in Bratislava
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Austrian registers on their way into the web
ICARUS as coordinator, platform and actor
Thomas Aigner(Diözesanarchiv St. Pölten / ICARUS)
10 Roman catholic dioceses – 10 diocese archives
Different situations concerning storage of register books
Most of the books still scattered in the parishes
Legal obligation to make books accessible (1784-1938)
Huge pressure of genealogical research
Decrease of catholic church (members, parishes, priests)
Organizational problems and challenges
General situation
St. Pölten
Current Projects
Passau, diocese:
95% completed, 230 parishes online by september 2011
Upper Austria:
Digitisation completed, online since January 2011
Stiria / Maribor, diocese:
Project started sept. 2010
Vienna, archidiocese:
Project start November 2011, 40 parishes digitized
St. Pölten, diocese:
85% completed, 80 % online (340 parishes)
Vorarlberg:
Digitisation completed, online since the end of 2010
Burgenland:
10 parishes digitized
Different methods of digitisation
F. i. St. Pölten, Stiria F. i. Vorarlberg
Original records Microfilms
Scanequipment used
Zeutschel OS 12000
~600-700 pages/hour
Qidenus Qiscan
Semi-automated page turning, ~1000 pages/hour
Bookeye 4
~800-900 pages/hour, special feature: V-cradle as a 120° angled plate
Portalwww.matricula-online.eu
Metadatawww.matricula.findbuch.net
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Open book
Thomas Aigner
St. Pölten Diocese Archives / ICARUS
Email: thomas.aigner@icar-us.eu
Web: www.icar-us.eu, www.dasp.at
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