Virtual Library Slavistics Its modules & new technologies COSEELIS conference 2009 Cambridge, April 6th, 2009

6-7 April 2009 |Slavistik-Portal | Eastern Europe DepartmentS. 2 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”

6-7 April 2009 |Slavistik-Portal | Eastern Europe DepartmentS. 3 Slavistics Portal: Short Introduction   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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6-7 April 2009 |Slavistik-Portal | Eastern Europe DepartmentS. 5 Slavistics Portal: Modules  Subject Gateway Slavistics (Slavistik-Guide) link link  covers relevant online resources, ~1000 entries  Alerting Service Slavistics  informs about new acquisitions of the Berlin State Library  e-Journals link 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 link  access to more than 2 million titles on slavistics worldwide  Bibliographic Data Pool link link  ~ slavonic bibliographic records and documents

6-7 April 2009 |Slavistik-Portal | Eastern Europe DepartmentS. 6 New Technologies I  Federated Index Search with iPort™ and Lucene link 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 , Berlin, – bibliographic records on slavistics, Bamberg –150 mio. Czech web pages, Prague – Polish PDF documents, Poznan Berlin Germany Poznan Poland Prague Czech republic Bamberg Germany Slavistics portal SRU

6-7 April 2009 |Slavistik-Portal | Eastern Europe DepartmentS. 7 New Technologies II  Automatic Link Suggestions  daily 5-10 new Web-2.0 community generated web links  useful as link recommendation for indexing process

6-7 April 2009 |Slavistik-Portal | Eastern Europe DepartmentS. 8 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

6-7 April 2009 |Slavistik-Portal | Eastern Europe DepartmentS. 9 Retroconversion Project: 130 Years German-Speaking Slavistics  4 multivolume bibliographies covering German-speaking slavistics since 1876, which can be searched online  ~ 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 portalmetasearch engine  Content worldwide accessable through SRU interface  Will be finished: end 2009

6-7 April 2009 |Slavistik-Portal | Eastern Europe DepartmentS. 10 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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