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

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.

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

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  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. 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 sitesStaatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz(Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage) Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department

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

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

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

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

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

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  10. Online Guide East Asia Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department

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

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

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

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

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

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

  17. CrossAsia Campus Infrastructure Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department

  18. CrossAsia Campus Infrastructure Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department

  19. CrossAsia Campus Infrastructure Matthias Kaun | The Berlin State Library | East Asia Department

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

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