2015, Koch, Sarah

The main target audience of the libraries special collections of East Asian literature is the scholars of humanities and social sciences, just like the sinological libraries are normally considered for the scholars of Chinese Studies. But in recent years one can notice a growing interest in East Asia, especially in China, in the field of science and technology. The increasing international economic relations between China and Germany are raising the demand for engineers who have a broad knowledge of China and the technical developments of both countries. In order to achieve an overview of the rapid technical and scientific developments in China, it is assumed that specialized language skills are required to be able to access important information. As the National Library for all areas of engineering and natural sciences, the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) takes the responsibility to provide research and industry with specialist literature and information – nationally and internationally. Therefore the TIB also built up the most comprehensive collection of modern Chinese literature in science and technology in Germany. As to understand how the library can provide a good support for the much more heterogeneous user group of Chinese literature in this field as well, it is necessary to learn more about their requirements. The purpose of this paper is to get an overview of the Chinese research output in science and technology by analyzing international databases, and to examine the target audience of this kind of literature. It is expected that it will not only show the growing awareness and use of Chinese technical and scientific publications by engineers in Germany, but also demonstrate the importance of access to these publications in terms of scholarly exchange for both German and Chinese scholars in Germany.

2015, Vosberg, Dana, Umlauf, Konrad

Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken geben mittlerweile den überwiegenden Anteil ihres Erwerbungsbudgets für elektronische Ressourcen aus. Neben den (steigenden) Beschaffungspreisen sind auch die Ausgestaltung der Nutzungsbedingungen sowie der Aufwand für die Durchführung der Vertragsverhandlungen und die technische Umsetzung wichtige Entscheidungsdeterminanten. Eine umfassende Analyse dieser vielfältigen Kosten- und Nutzenaspekte findet bisher aber noch nicht statt. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit besteht deshalb darin, ein praxistaugliches Modell zu entwickeln, das einerseits die unterschiedlichen Kosten- und Nutzenfaktoren elektronischer Ressourcen hinreichend genau abbildet und andererseits die Komplexität der Entscheidungssituation angemessen reduziert. Dieses Modell soll Bibliotheken dabei unterstützen, ihren Bestand an elektronischen Ressourcen ökonomisch fundiert zu evaluieren und damit die Basis für eine optimale Zusammensetzung eines bibliotheksspezifischen „E-Portfolios“ zu legen.

2014, Bähr, Thomas, Lindlar, Michelle, Rechert, Klaus, Liebetraut, Thomas

Over the last 30 years the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) accumulated a large collection of various electronic media, such as floppies or CD-ROMs. This poster describes both practical workflows as well as technical infrastructure to provide authentic and interactive access to the TIB’s large electronic media collection.

2015, Löwe, Peter Heinz, Neumann, Janna, Plank, Margret, Ziedorn, Frauke, Lazar, Robert, Westervelt, James, Inman, Roger

This paper discusses the need for the preservation of audiovisual content in the OSGeo communities beyond the established software repositories. Audiovisual content related to OSGeo projects such as training videos can be preserved by multimedia archiving and retrieval services which are currently developed by the library community. This is demonstrated by the reference case of a newly discovered version of the GRASS GIS 1987 promotional video which is being included into the AV-portal of the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB). Access to the video will be provided upon the release of the web-based portal, allowing for extended search capabilities based on enhanced metadata derived by automated video analysis. This is a reference case for future preservation activities regarding semanticenhanced Web2.0 content from OSGeo projects

2014, Heller, Lambert, The, Ronald, Bartling, Sönke, Bartling, Sönke, Friesike, Sascha

While Online Publishing has replaced most traditional printed journals in less than twenty years, today’s Online Publication Formats are still closely bound to the medium of paper. Collaboration is mostly hidden from the readership, and ‘final’ versions of papers are stored in ‘publisher PDF’ files mimicking print. Meanwhile new media formats originating from the web itself bring us new modes of transparent collaboration, feedback, continued refinement, and reusability of (scholarly) works: Wikis, Blogs and Code Repositories, to name a few. This chapter characterizes the potentials of Dynamic Publication Formats and analyzes necessary prerequisites. Selected tools specific to the aims, stages, and functions of Scholarly Publishing are presented. Furthermore, this chapter points out early examples of usage and further development from the field. In doing so, Dynamic Publication Formats are described as (a) a ‘parallel universe’ based on the commodification of (scholarly) media, and (b) as a much needed complement, slowly recognized and incrementally integrated into more efficient and dynamic workflows of production, improvement, and dissemination of scholarly knowledge in general.

2014, Ackermann, Franziska, Leyrer, Katharina, Waidmann, Simone, Wilhelm, Christine

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2014, Lindlar, Michelle

Digital data associated with the architectural design-andconstruction process is an essential resource alongside -and even past- the lifecycle of the construction object it describes. Despite this, digital architectural data remains to be largely neglected in digital preservation research – and vice versa, digital preservation is so far neglected in the design-and-construction process. In the last 5 years, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has seen a growing adoption in the architecture and construction domains, marking a large step towards much needed interoperability. The open standard IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) is one way in which data is exchanged in BIM processes. This paper presents a first digital preservation based look at BIM processes, highlighting the history and adoption of the methods as well as the open file format standard IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) as one way to store and preserve BIM data.

2014, Hohlfeld, Michael, Tobschall, Esther

Der Beitrag beschreibt zunächst den Ist-Zustand des Zusammenspiels der von der TIB betriebenen Virtuellen Fachbibliotheken sowie dem Fachportal GetInfo. Er gibt einen Ausblick auf ein neues übergreifendes Webportal der TIB, in welchem GetInfo aufgehen wird und welches künftige Fachinformationsdienste der TIB in Form von erweiterten Facheinstiegen anbieten wird – unter Einbindung neuartiger Dienste für Fachcommunities sowie Fachausschnitten der medienspezifischen Portale der TIB.

2015, Riechert, Mathias, Tobias, Regine, Heller, Lambert, Blümel, Ina, Biesenbender, Sophie

Dieses Diskussionspapier gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der Forschungsberichterstattung im Wissenschaftssystem. Dabei werden aktuelle Entwicklungen von integrierten Forschungsinformationssystemen und aktuelle Standardisierungsinitiativen aufgezeigt und ein Einblick in ein Umsetzungsprojekt eines verteilten Systems gegeben. Der Beitrag schließt in mit einer Diskussion von Weiterentwicklungsszenarien verteilter Forschungsinformationssysteme im Wis-senschaftssystem.

2014, Heller, Lambert, Tullney, Marco

Früher schrieben Forscherinnen und Forscher dicke Bücher. Heute kommt neues Wissen vor allem durch Aufsätze in Fachzeitschriften in die Welt – immer häufiger auch online. Das verheißt neue Chancen: Kolleginnen und Kollegen können die Texte leichter finden, schneller zitieren und verlinken. Worauf ist beim digitalen Publizieren zu achten?