Leipzig University Library (D)
Leipzig University Library was founded in the year 1543 and is one of the oldest university libraries that serves both members of the university and the population of its surrounding city. Leipzig University Library is used nationally and internationally because of its precious holdings and extensive special collections. These include medieval and modern manuscripts, incunabulae, the collection of papyri and autographs and the collections of Ostraka and coins. Since January 1, 1998, Leipzig University Library has joined the national system for special collections in modern disciplines and is responsible for collecting literature and information in the field of Communication, Media Studies and Journalism. Leipzig University Library provides printed and electronic media for all students, teachers, and researchers at Leipzig University. It continuously improves its catalogues and its reading areas, assures modern reproduction technology, and offers services in information retrieval for every discipline. Leipzig University Library cooperates closely with libraries in Saxony and other German States as well as internationally.
Project Collaboration
amsl.technology
Within the focus of the project is the development of methods and tools for the integration of library data and information from the Internet in the Linked Open Data Cloud. The goal is a scalable and reusable, intelligent data management platform, homogenize the heterogeneous data from different provenances, networking and high demantified in RDF format and any other representation formats can accumulate. The focus kept on aligning a system complementarity and data interoperability architecture concept, which is operated by system librarians. As part of the project a use case is to be realized, that provides resource management functions to ensure the efficient licensing, budgeting and management of electronic resources to the level of the smallest unit of publication. Read more about amsl.technology
OntoWiki
OntoWiki facilitates the visual presentation of a knowledge base as an information map, with different views on instance data. It enables intuitive authoring of semantic content, with an inline editing mode for editing RDF content, similar to WYSIWIG for text documents. Read more about OntoWiki
Workshop on Data Management and Electronic Resource Management in Libraries (DERM 2014)
The workshop DERM 2014, as part of the INFORMATIK 2014 conference in Stuttgart (Germany) is concerned with the transition of traditional information systems to a web-oriented and Linked Data oriented infrastructure in libraries. Read more about Workshop on Data Management and Electronic Resource Management in Libraries (DERM 2014)
Workshop OWL-Vokabulare im Kontext digitaler Forschungskollaboration (VokDF)
Im Fokus des Workshops stehen Vokabulare der verschiedener Domänen in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, deren Publikation und Entwicklung im Web, sowie Verfahren zur Angleichung. Der Workshop adressiert gleichermaßen Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftler, IT-Experten in Bibliotheken und Informatiker. Read more about Workshop OWL-Vokabulare im Kontext digitaler Forschungskollaboration (VokDF)