EDL Report on Digitisation Grant Agreement Number: ECP-2005-CULT-038074 EDL EDL Report on Digitisation in European National Libraries 2006-2012 Deliverable number D-3.1.bis Dissemination level Public Delivery date 29th February 2008 Status Final Hans Petschar, Max Kaiser, Bettina Kann, Joachim Korb, Lucien Scotti, Svein Arne Author(s) Solbakk, Alexander Sperl, Astrid Verheusen, David Fuegi eContentplus This project is funded under the eContentplus programme1, a multiannual Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable. 1 OJ L 79, 24.3.2005, p. 1. 1/187 EDL Report on Digitisation TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . .5 INTRODUCTION . .10 1 .1 RECENT EUROPEAN UNION LEVEL INITIATIVES INFLUENCING NATIONAL LIBRARIES AND THEIR DIGITISATION STRATEGIES . .10 2 CONTENT DIGITISATION IN EUROPEAN NATIONAL LIBRARIES . .18 2 .1 CONTEXT OF THE EDL PROJECT’S CONTENT SURVEY . .18 2 .2 ROLE OF NATIONAL LIBRARIES . .18 2 .3 LIBRARY STATISTICS AND DIGITAL CONTENT . .19 2 .4 METHODOLOGY . .20 2 .5 BOOK DIGITISATION O VERVIEW BY LUCIEN SCOTTI, BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE . .23 2 .6 THE STATE OF OCR O VERVIEW BY JOACHIM KORB, AUSTRIAN NATIONAL LIBRARY, TELPLUS PROJECT . .25 2 .7 SUMMARY . .27 3 DIGITISATION STRATEGIES AND PROGRAMMES . .28 3 .1 SUMMARY . .28 3 .2 AUSTRIA: . .30 3 .3 BELGIUM: . .31 3 .4 BULGARIA: . .32 3 .5 CROATIA: . .33 3 .6 CYPRUS: . .34 3 .7 CZECH REPUBLIC . .35 3 .8 DENMARK: . .36 3 .9 ESTONIA: . .37 3 .10 FINLAND: . .38 3 .11 FRANCE: . .39 3 .12 GERMANY: . .40 3 .13 GREECE: . .41 3 .14 HUNGARY: . .42 3 .15 ICELAND: . ..