Virtual Library Slavistics Its modules

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Virtual Library SlavisticsIts modules new
technologiesCOSEELIS 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

Slavistics portal
SRU
SRU
PoznanPoland
SRU
SRU
BerlinGermany
PragueCzech republic
BambergGermany
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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

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Thank you for your attention!

• Ivo Ulrich
• Berlin State Library, Germany
• Eastern Europe Department
• ivo.ulrich_at_sbb.spk-berlin.de
• Tel. [phone]