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

2. 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”

3. 6-7 April 2009 |Slavistik-Portal | Eastern Europe DepartmentS. 3 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

4. 6-7 April 2009 |Slavistik-Portal | Eastern Europe DepartmentS. 4

5. 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  ~300.000 slavonic bibliographic records and documents

6. 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 35.000, Berlin, –16.000 bibliographic records on slavistics, Bamberg –150 mio. Czech web pages, Prague –80.000 Polish PDF documents, Poznan Berlin Germany Poznan Poland Prague Czech republic Bamberg Germany Slavistics portal SRU

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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  ~ 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 portalmetasearch engine  Content worldwide accessable through SRU interface  Will be finished: end 2009

10. 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

11. 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