FID Jewish Studies The Digital Information Services for Jewish Studies in German Universities and its relation to the Judaica Link project for contextualization and metadata enrichment

1. Specialized Information System
for Jewish Studies (FID)

2. Objectives
• Establishing the FID Portal as the focal point for
access to information in the areas of Jewish studies /
Israel studies
• Identification and provision of special literature
• Integration of innovative information
technology for optimized access to resources
• Platform for scholarly knowledge

3. Desiderata
• Reasonable representation of Hebrew literature
• Assembling distributed resources of Jewish studies
• Contextualisation and enrichment of metadata for
the historical holdings in Jewish studies

4. FID for Jewish Studies: 4 Modules
Building a FID
Portal
Automated retro
conversion of the
transliterated Hebrew
titles
Contextualization of the
Digital collections of
Judaica (Prof. Eckert)
Demand driven collection
development

5. 1. Automatic Retro-conversion of transliterated
Hebrew titles

6. Procedure
Transliterated
Hebrew TA
Original title
in Hebrew
Algorithm for
Original Hebrew
Comparison
with the NLI
Manual cataloging

7. 2. Building the FID Portal
Subject
specific
search in
Israel Studies
Subject
specific
search in
Jewish
Studies
Lists of
electronic
journals and
databases
Integration of a
bibliographic
database:
literature of the
Haskala
Platform
for
Scholarly
Information Networking
of
specialized
information

8. Specialized search > Israel Studies /
Jewish Studies / Hit list
UB cooperation
with ULB Halle
MENALIB
Lists of electronic
journals and
databases
Lists of free
Internet resources

9. Lists of electronic journals and databases
• In the ECB / DBIS no identification of Jewish
Studies and Israel Studies
• Visibility of the information service:
- comprehensive availability of freely
available journals
- licensing fee (paid) magazines
Licensing of specialized databases in Hebrew

10. Integration of bibliographic Databases about
the literature of the Jewish Enlightenment
International research project on traditional secularization
Book Culture / identification of texts of the Jewish
Enlightenment
Visualization of networks
Data on active people, printed materials,
publishing houses etc
Link to digitized Geo-referenced data

11. Platform for Scholarly Information
NetworksSpecialist services
Dissertation and research
reports
Lists of Visual and Audio
databases
Ongoing projects
More…
Dissemination
Participation in conferences
Information events
Subject entry
Browse by
keywords
Alphabetical
author search

12. 3. Contextualization of the Judaica Digital
collections
Historical
Judaica
Hebraica
inventory
of UB
Frankfurt

14. 4. Demand-oriented Collection development
The expert target community is interested in a variety of topics of
Jewish Studies /Israel studies
• monographs in Hebrew and specific publishers
• offer of the unique journal holdings of the UB
• Comprehensiveness of free titles / gray literature
• PDA / User-Based Acquisition

15. Automatic retro conversion
of transliterated Hebrew titles
Contextualization of
the Judaica Digital
Collections
Demand driven collection
development
Subject
specific
search in
Israel Studies
Subject
specific
search in
Jewish
Studies
Lists of
electronic
journals and
databases
Integration of a
bibliographic
database:
literature of the
Haskala
Platform
for
Scholarly
Information User Portal
Database

19. Establishing a Jewish Knowledge Grid
Joint project proposal:
 Named Entity Recognition in the text of the articles in the journals
of the Jewish Studies collection of JSTOR
 Names of persons, organizations, locations, expressions of times,
events
 Linking the names to the entries in relevant vocabularies and
Encyclopedias
 Linking back the entries in the Encyclopedias and vocabularies to
relevant articles in JSTOR Jewish Studies journals.