Specialized Information System

for Jewish Studies (FID)

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

Desiderata

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

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

1. Automatic Retro-conversion of transliterated Hebrew titles

Procedure

Transliterated Hebrew TA

Original title in Hebrew

Algorithm for Original Hebrew

Comparison with the NLI

Manual cataloging

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

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

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

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

Platform for Scholarly Information

Networks Specialist 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

3. Contextualization of the Judaica Digital collections

Historical Judaica

Hebraica inventory

of UB Frankfurt

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

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

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.