Transcript The East Asia Department

From a Virtual Library
to a
Virtual Research Environment
- how to support East Asian
Studies
The Berlin State Library
 History, facts, collections, and services
 East Asia at the Berlin State Library
 CrossAsia
 CrossAsia Campus – VRE
History
 Churfürstliche Bibliothek zu Cölln an der Spree as a Electoral
Library in 1661
 History before WW II (3 Mio. items)
 History after WW II
 Two Libraries in two German states
(East Berlin – Unter den Linden / Since early 1970th West
Berlin – Potsdamer Strasse)
 After German unification: One Library at two sites
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
(Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage)
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Overview
 10 million books
 4 400 incunabula
 18 350 Occidental manuscripts
 40 000 Oriental manuscripts
 250 000 autographs
 67 000 music autographs
 1 400 estates and personal archives
 1 million maps and atlases
 32 000 subscription periodicals and monograph series
 180 000 early newspapers and 350 subscription newspapers
 diverse electronic databases and full-texts
 2.3 million microfiches / microfilms
 13.5 million images in the picture archive
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Principle of Universality
 Regional universality: material from and about all
countries and regions of the world, in the relevant languages
for research purposes
 Subject universality: publications from all subjects areas
 Temporal universality: sources from all periods and times
 Universality of media and form: material in all the
important forms such as manuscripts, printed works,
microfilms, electronic and online publications
 Research library and cultural archive for future
generations
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The East Asia Department - Berlin State Library
= German National Resource for East Asia
 Special Subject Collection East and Southeast Asia
(Sondersammelgebiet) supported by the German Research
Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
 „Blauer Leihverkehr“ (inter-library loan service for
German and European libraries)
 East and Southeast Asia Virtual Library – CrossAsia
(http://crossasia.org – platform to organise controlled access
to e-resources)
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East Asia Collection
 collection building policy covers all areas of interest
 all countries of this region are included: PR China (with
Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Hong Kong and Macao),
Taiwan, Mongolia, Japan, and North and South Korea
 humanities and social sciences
 rare ancient material from China and Japan such as
manuscripts and woodblock prints
 Access through own Unicode-databases and special interlibrary loan service
 Databases for German registered users in conjunction
with the policy of German Research Foundation
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CrossAsia Infrastructure
Access Control
Online Guide East Asia
Metasearch
Access to Metadata
Access databases (licensed)
Digital Collection
Communication /
Web 2.0, blog
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Online Guide East Asia
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CrossAsia - Search
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CrossAsia - Berlin Digital Collections
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CrossAsia - Access E-Resources
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CrossAsia Campus – Virtual Research Environment
Idea:
 Better and user friendly access to CJK e-resources
 Working platform / space for registered individual users and
national and international research groups
 Communication platform for research groups
Need:
 New IT model for providing access to e-resources (software
streaming)
 New authentication system (based on Shibboleth)
 Space management (WebDAV)
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CrossAsia Campus – Virtual Research Environment
 Integration of classic services into the virtual platform
(like ILL-services)
 Access to content (also to content which subject to license
and access to own and other digitised collections)
 Communication (Central Space Area and communication
between researchers, and research groups, set up of the
CrossAsia Forum)
 Information Management (Technical backbone and
infrastructure incl. Authentication and access control)
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CrossAsia Campus Infrastructure
Research
Environment
Authentication
Management
Access to content
Communication
Information management
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CrossAsia Campus Infrastructure
Research
Environment
Authentication
Management
Access e-content
•Full-text databases (E-journals, EBooks, Reference
Works etc. ->free and subject to licence)
•Digital Collections
•Digital Archive (websites und documents)
•All other forms of e-resources (archive material,
statistics, maps, art, websites etc.)
<- realised within the DFG supported special
collection East and Southeast Asia and DFG
supported German National
Licenses
Kommunikation
Zugang zu Informationen
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CrossAsia Campus Infrastructure
Research
Environment
Authentication
Management
Communication
Kommunikation
•WebDAV (central space area for individuals and
[international] research groups
•Platform for Open Access Journals /publications
•Textprocessing
•Wiki
•Repositories
•Blogs
•…
Zugang zu Informationen
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CrossAsia Campus Infrastructure
Research
Environment
Authentication
management
Zugang zu Informationen
Kommunikation
Information Management
•uniformed and controlled access to different
data pools and collections (one-stop-access point;
ToC-Server for Chinese books)
Further steps:
- Researchers should work with and within different
full-text databases -> diverse research methods
and approaches (i. e. computer-linguistic methods,
semantic web …
<-> i-science (integrated science)
•GIS / Geo-OCR
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Berlin State Library – Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Matthias Kaun, director
Head of East Asia Department
[email protected]
Berlin State Library – http://www.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
CrossAsia – http://crossasia.org
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