EBSEES European Bibliography of Slavic and East European

EBSEES - European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies Web 2. 0 Features

“Nowadays, modern bibliographic databases have to do more than just provide a search form and response frame. ” Berlin State Library | Eastern Europe Department 1 April 2008 | 2

EBSEES Web 2. 0 Features Ü Content Sharing à Web Service SRU Ü Usability à Embedded Microformat COin. S Ü Information Visualisation à Tag Cloud Ü Visibility à Search Engine Optimisation Berlin State Library | Eastern Europe Department 1 April 2008 | 3

Content Sharing Ü SRU web service à SRU (Search & Retrieval via URL) à developed at Library of Congress à delivers database content as XML data stream à easy integration in metasearch engines à easy content sharing Berlin State Library | Eastern Europe Department 1 April 2008 | 4

Content Sharing SRU web service SRU server: http: //ebsees. staatsbibliothek-berlin. de/sru. php? explain Berlin State Library | Eastern Europe Department 1 April 2008 | 5

Usability Ü Embedded Microformat COin. S à COin. S (Context Objects in Spans) à based on Open. URL standard à easy retrieval of bibliographic metadata à searching for full text versions in libraries (Open. URL link service SFX) à import into reference management software (reference management software such as Zotero, Lib. X) Berlin State Library | Eastern Europe Department 1 April 2008 | 6

Usability COin. S Book Searching Berlin State Library | Eastern Europe Department 1 April 2008 | 7

Usability COin. S Bibliographic Metadata Berlin State Library | Eastern Europe Department 1 April 2008 | 8

Information Visualisation Tag Cloud Ü Subject headings as weighted list à font size shows how often subject heading is used in database à clickable à easy overview Berlin State Library | Eastern Europe Department 1 April 2008 | 9