About

What are the ONB Labs?

The ONB Labs are a platform to foster and inspire research, experimentation and creative work with the Austrian National Library's digital collections and data. We select and present openly licensed collections, tools to support working with them and scatches to illustrate use cases. The ONB Labs are a flexible service of the Austrian National Library that are continuously revised and expanded.

How did the ONB Labs come into being?

The Austrian National Library defined its contribution to the knowledge economy in its vision paper 2025. This paper included that the ONB will digitise its collections, facilitate the access to cultural heritage and support research. These ambitious guidelines are explicated in the strategy paper 2017-2021, grouping this vision in executable goals. Among these are establishing a library lab and providing linked open data.

Why do I need to register?

Certain services of the ONB Labs require a registration. This diagram lists of all our services and which of them require a registered user. If you have any questions about our services please message us under labs 'at' onb 'dot' ac 'dot' at.

Function Without Registration Logged-In
Data Sets
view
download
Collections
view
use in tools
create
manage
share
Code
view
download
create
share
contribute
Tutorials
view
download
write
share

How can I get in touch?

You can message the ONB Labs team under labs 'at' onb 'dot' ac 'dot' at.

Who are the ONB Labs?

The ONB Labs is everyone that wants to work with us. As a team we are two developers and one project manager.