Virtual Library SlavisticsIts modules & new technologies

COSEELIS conference 2009

Cambridge, April 6th, 2009

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Overview

Introduction

Modules Subject Gateway Slavistics Alerting Service Slavistics e-Journals Online Tutorial Slavistics Metasearch Engine Bibliographic Data Pool

New Technologies Federated Index Search Automatic Link Suggestions Content Sharing with SRU (Search & Retrieve via URL)

Retroconversion Project “130 Years German-Speaking Slavistics”

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Slavistics Portal: Short Introduction

http://www.slavistik-portal.de

Supported by “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” (German Research Foundation)

Located and hosted by Berlin State Library: Eastern Europe Department

Started in October 1st, 2005

Target audience: scientists and students, teachers, translators, journalists, cultural managers and all those, who are interested in Slavistics in general, or Slavic languages, Slavic literatures and Slavic folklore in particular.

Cooperates with Virtual Library Eastern Europe (ViFaOst)

Since May 2007 online

October 2007: 2nd stage of project

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Slavistics Portal: Modules

Subject Gateway Slavistics (Slavistik-Guide) link

covers relevant online resources, ~1000 entries

Alerting Service Slavistics informs about new acquisitions of the Berlin State Library

e-Journals link

access to electronic journals, TOCs, bibliographic records of journals

Online Tutorial Slavistics e-learning tool; gives didactic introduction for slavic languages,

literature and cultural studies

Metasearch Engine link

access to more than 2 million titles on slavistics worldwide

Bibliographic Data Pool link

~300.000 slavonic bibliographic records and documents

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New Technologies I

Federated Index Search with iPort™ and Lucene link

cooperative subject network for Slavistics metasearch engine iPort™ + search engine technology Apache Lucene extremly fast, stable and scalable contains:

– 5 mio. slavonic web pages, today 35.000, Berlin,

– 16.000 bibliographic records on slavistics, Bamberg

– 150 mio. Czech web pages, Prague

– 80.000 Polish PDF documents, Poznan

BerlinGermany

PoznanPoland

PragueCzech republic

BambergGermany

Slavistics portal

SRU

SRU

SRU

SRU

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New Technologies II

Automatic Link Suggestions daily 5-10 new Web-2.0 community generated web links useful as link recommendation for indexing process

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New Technologies III

SRU Interface (Search & Retrieval via URL) free access to our databases and indexes easy integration in all metasearch engines easy content sharing

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Retroconversion Project: 130 Years German-Speaking Slavistics

4 multivolume bibliographies covering German-speaking slavistics since 1876, which can be searched online

~ 60.000 bibliographic records incl. subject headings

Scan process with book scanners already completed

Currently: optical character recognition (OCR) process

Planned: software controlled conversion into Lucene indexes

Easy access via metasearch engine of the Slavistics portal

Content worldwide accessable through SRU interface

Will be finished: end 2009

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Conclusion

We secure continuing access to our portal by using innovative technologies

New technologies combine more content with less human resources

Thank you for your attention!

Ivo Ulrich

Berlin State Library, Germany

Eastern Europe Department

ivo.ulrich@sbb.spk-berlin.de

Tel.: +49-30-266 435782