CrossAsia at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin an approach to organise access to research material in...

CrossAsia at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

an approach to organise access to research material in the field of Asian studies

The Berlin State Library its East Asia Department and CrossAsia

Background – some facts on the library and its responsibilities

What is CrossAsia? Special subject information guide

Collecting, cataloguing, archiving

Who can benefit of this work?

Who needs CrossAsia? - Evaluation & needs

Matthias Kaun | CrossAsia | CEAL - Chicago 2009

Background

Germany is historically and politically a decentralized country with 16 federal states

Material is non-German languages is collected on a national level by some 20 major libraries in Germany supported by „German Research Foundation“

Within this framework Berlin State Library is in responsible for:law, slavic studies and literature, foreign newspapers, topographic maps, cartography, East- and Southeast Asia


Berlin State Library

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


East and Southeast Asia Collection

Partly funded and supervised by German Research Foundation

A kind of „national collection“

Responsible for collection building, processing, acquisition, e-resources, digitising projects, technical solutions

Special inter-library-loan service „Blauer Leihverkehr“ open to German and European institutions/users


CrossAsia

Co-operative project (start 2005 – end of funding 2010/11)

Organising access to relevant material in each language and form (print/digital)

CrossAsia is the technical platform to offer and distribute “our” content (our printed collection and more than 40 databases)

Giving access to all kinds of metadata


CrossAsia Partners

German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg

the State and University of Library Lower Saxony in Göttingen

the Institute for Chinese Studies at Heidelberg University, Heidelberg

the Department of Chinese and Korean Studies at Tübingen University, Tübingen,

the Department of Japanese Studies at Tübingen University, Tübingen

the Internet Guide for Chinese Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands

and CrossAsia in conjunction with the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library and the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies


CrossAsia


CrossAsia – E-Resources


Online Guide East Asia – special subject information


Online Guide East Asia - Workflow System


CrossAsia Digital Archive as part of OGEA

Input OGEA Data

has to be archived ?

NO1. set archive flag2. set interval3. make archive URL

YES1. pass data to Heritrix2. activation per CRON3. saving *.arc.gz4. indexing by NutchWAX

generating index

search and present with NutchWAXand Wayback-Machine


Simple and advanced search

eGovernment-Archiv CrossAsia


eGovernment-Archiv CrossAsia - Result


Building search applications with lucene and nutch

1. We inject a set of URLs into the web database (crawldb).

2. We fetch the web pages:

1. To fetch, we first generate a fetch-list from the database.This generates a fetch-list in a new segment.

2. Now we run the fetcher on this segment.

3. We have to update the database with the results of the fetch.

3. Now we can build a new index of resources catalogued in the Online Guide East Asia.

inject

fetching1. generate

2. fetch3. update

indexing


OGEA and Search Engine technology


CrossAsia Questions

Do we need to or did we already reinvent the wheel? We all know the Asian Studies WWW VL, the Internet Guide for Chinese Studies or the Portal to Asian Internet Resources etc.?

Will we be able to continue our work to create new records into the central system or do we have to stop when the funding has been expired?

Is it a good idea to archive non-permanent material and how can we solve the copyright issue?

Is this work in google/rss/Twitter/del.icio.us etc-times really necessary?


Outlook

Printed monographs, series, and newspapers with access to it via interlibrary-loan services

Access to our own digitised collection which will start in summer 2009 (visible in 2010 with 2,5 Million pages in 2012)

Electronic databases like full-text databases, fact databases, E-journals, EBooks, full-text statistics, which are subject to licence with access for German users

Information of other subject collections and projects like resources from the National Library of China and National Central in Taibei, National Diet Library in Japan, or activities in for example Laos National Library (to be continued)

Special Subject Information (OGEA to be continued)

Archiving web-resources (started )


Organising Access

central system & central index

1. EACAT2. Main Libray Catalogue3. OGEA4. E-ressource 1 (CAJ)5. E-ressource 2 (Apabi)6. …

digital collectionworkflow system

cataloguing systemNACSIS/NII

Online Guide East Asia (incl. DigitalArchive CrossAsia)

other resources …

E-ressource 1 (CAJ – journal level & article level

E-ressource 2 (Apabi – differentcollections)

Searchinterface /

OPAC

for usersfree arrangement

of metadatasets /collections


Thank you very much!

Matthias KaunBerlin State LibraryEast Asia Department

http://ead.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de

http://crossasia.org

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