1. From a Virtual Library to a Virtual Research Environment - how to support East Asian Studies

2. The Berlin State Library  History, facts, collections, and services  East Asia at the Berlin State Library  CrossAsia  CrossAsia Campus – VRE

3. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department 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)

4. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department 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

5. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department 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

6. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department 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)

7. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department 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 inter- library loan service  Databases for German registered users in conjunction with the policy of German Research Foundation

8. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department CrossAsia Infrastructure Online Guide East Asia Metasearch Access databases (licensed) Digital Collection Access Control Access to Metadata Communication / Web 2.0, blog

9. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department

10. Online Guide East Asia

11. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department CrossAsia - Search

12. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department CrossAsia - Berlin Digital Collections

13. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department CrossAsia - Access E-Resources

14. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department 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) CrossAsia Campus – Virtual Research Environment

15. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department 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)

16. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department CrossAsia Campus Infrastructure Authentication Management

17. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department CrossAsia Campus Infrastructure Authentication Management Research Environment Zugang zu Informationen Kommunikation 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 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

18. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department CrossAsia Campus Infrastructure Authentication Management Research Environment Zugang zu Informationen Kommunikation Communication WebDAV (central space area for individuals and [international] research groups Platform for Open Access Journals /publications Textprocessing Wiki Repositories Blogs … Communication WebDAV (central space area for individuals and [international] research groups Platform for Open Access Journals /publications Textprocessing Wiki Repositories Blogs …

19. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department CrossAsia Campus Infrastructure Authentication management Research Environment 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 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

20. Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department Berlin State Library – Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Matthias Kaun, director Head of East Asia Department kaun@sbb.spk-berlin.de Berlin State Library – http://www.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de CrossAsia – http://crossasia.org