It is a sad fact that, on the one hand, literature searches at universities and research institutions are increasingly only using online sources for scientific work and citations and, on the other hand, at the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics and, to a lesser extent, at the Federal Institute for Mountain Farming, print collections published by these institutes are available in large numbers and of high professional value, but without digital copies.
Therefore, in the course of retro-digitisation, these holdings were prepared for the internet and search engines and successively made publicly accessible.
The following print collections were involved
114 volumes of the BAWI publication series, each with approx. 100-200 pages (monographs) (No. 1 - 100 only in print)
43 volumes of agricultural policy aids (monographs), 30-50 pages each (No. 1 - 37 only in print)
Standard cover notes (90 vols., approx. 200 pages each), approx. 0.8 running metres
Annual reports on agricultural technology of the ÖKL (19 vols.)
Monthly reports on Austrian agriculture, 1956 - 12/2000 , Per 59, 45 Jg. à 3 running metres
Das Schrifttum der Agrarwirtschaft: Documentation organ for the social and economic sciences of agriculture / begr. v. S. Frauendorfer / Pevetz, Werner [ed.]: Per 114A
1961 - 2000, 41 volumes. 1.2 linear metres
A total of 827 volumes were involved.
In 2020, the digitisation of the following publications is still to be carried out
Publications of the Federal Institute for Mountain Farming
Procedure and implementation of retro-digitisation
Remove prepared publications from the magazine
Cut away the bindings with a paper cutter
Scan in, then OCR recognition
Selection of the appropriate data format: PDF (each digital copy was saved once uncompressed and once compressed)
Storage on the BAB institute server
Still open for 2020
Consideration of a suitable classification system on the BAB website (BAB server) to optimise visibility for search engines (Google)
Integration and cataloguing of individual volumes (in BIS-C/Fa. DABIS) or linking of existing catalogues with imported PDFs in BAB-OPACà already partially done
Schedule
Project start: January 2019
End of project: July 2020
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