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Botanische Zeitschriften und Aquarelle von Louise von Panhuys : zwei neue digitale Sammlungen der UB
(2013)
Die Senckenbergische Bibliothek hat ihren Ursprung in der Stiftung des Frankfurter Stadtarztes Johann Christian Senckenberg (1707–1772) von 1763. Senckenberg investierte während seines Lebens einen erheblichen Anteil seines Einkommens in den Aufbau seiner Privatbibliothek. So kaufte er alle wesentlichen Neuerscheinungen seiner Zeit und erwarb auch viele ältere Werke antiquarisch. Gegen Ende seines Lebens umfasste seine Bibliothek etwa 10.000 Bände. Diese Bibliothek ging an das von ihm gestiftete Senckenbergische Medizinische Institut. Schon bald nach seinem Tod wurde ein großer Teil der nicht-medizinischen Literatur versteigert. Der medizinische Bestand wurde in der Folgezeit stark erweitert. ...
Ein großer Moment für die Entwicklung des Campus Westend: Am 28. September wurde in Anwesenheit des hessischen Finanzministers Michael Boddenberg, der Staatssekretärin des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst Ayse Asar und Universitätspräsident Prof. Enrico Schleiff das neue Gebäude SKW feierlich eingeweiht. Auch für die Universitätsbibliothek (UB JCS) ein großer Schritt, denn somit ist das bereits vor 20 Jahren vom damaligen Bibliotheksdirektor Berndt Dugall und Universitätspräsident Prof. Rudolf Steinberg geschmiedete Konzept von sechs Bereichsbibliotheken und einer Zentralbibliothek in Bezug auf die Bereichsbibliotheken vollendet. Diese neue sechste Bereichsbibliothek der UB JCS betreut die Fachgebiete der Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften. Dafür stand nicht nur ein aufwendiger Umzug vom Campus Bockenheim zum Campus Westend an, sondern zugleich auch eine Zusammenführung von insgesamt zwölf Teilbibliotheken. Der UniReport konnte mit der stellvertretenden Direktorin der Universitätsbibliothek, Dr. Angela Hausinger, und der kommissarischen Leitung der BSKW, Christiane Schaper (zugleich Leitung BzG), über die Bedeutung der neuen BSKW sprechen.
BIOfid is a specialized information service currently being developed to mobilize biodiversity data dormant in printed historical and modern literature and to offer a platform for open access journals on the science of biodiversity. Our team of librarians, computer scientists and biologists produce high-quality text digitizations, develop new text-mining tools and generate detailed ontologies enabling semantic text analysis and semantic search by means of user-specific queries. In a pilot project we focus on German publications on the distribution and ecology of vascular plants, birds, moths and butterflies extending back to the Linnaeus period about 250 years ago. The three organism groups have been selected according to current demands of the relevant research community in Germany. The text corpus defined for this purpose comprises over 400 volumes with more than 100,000 pages to be digitized and will be complemented by journals from other digitization projects, copyright-free and project-related literature. With TextImager (Natural Language Processing & Text Visualization) and TextAnnotator (Discourse Semantic Annotation) we have already extended and launched tools that focus on the text-analytical section of our project. Furthermore, taxonomic and anatomical ontologies elaborated by us for the taxa prioritized by the project’s target group - German institutions and scientists active in biodiversity research - are constantly improved and expanded to maximize scientific data output. Our poster describes the general workflow of our project ranging from literature acquisition via software development, to data availability on the BIOfid web portal (http://biofid.de/), and the implementation into existing platforms which serve to promote global accessibility of biodiversity data.
With the ongoing loss of global biodiversity, long-term recordings of species distribution patterns are increasingly becoming important to investigate the causes and consequences for their change. Therefore, the digitization of scientific literature, both modern and historical, has been attracting growing attention in recent years. To meet this growing demand the Specialised Information Service for Biodiversity Research (BIOfid) was launched in 2017 with the aim of increasing the availability and accessibility of biodiversity information. Closely tied to the research community the interdisciplinary BIOfid team is digitizing data sources of biodiversity related research and provides a modern and professional infrastructure for hosting and sharing them. As a pilot project, German publications on the distribution and ecology of vascular plants, birds, moths and butterflies covering the past 250 years are prioritized. Large parts of the text corpus defined in accordance with the needs of the relevant German research community have already been transferred to a machine-readable format and will be publicly accessible soon. Software tools for text mining, semantic annotation and analysis with respect to the current trends in machine learning are developed to maximize bioscientific data output through user-specific queries that can be created via the BIOfid web portal (https://www.biofid.de/). To boost knowledge discovery, specific ontologies focusing on morphological traits and taxonomy are being prepared and will continuously be extended to keep up with an ever-expanding volume of literature sources.
In order to promote the accessibility of biodiversity data in historic and contemporary literature, we introduce a new interdisciplinary project called BIOfid (FID=Fachinformationsdienst, a service for providing specialized information). The project aims at a mobilization of data available in print only by combining digitization of scientific biodiversity literature with the development of innovative text mining tools for complex, eventually semantic searches throughout the complete text corpus. A major prerequisite for the development of such search tools is the provision of sophisticated anatomy ontologies on the one hand, and of complete lists of species names (currently considered valid as well as all synonyms) at a global scale on the other hand. In the initial stage, we chose examples from German publications of the past 250 years dealing with the geographic distribution and ecology of vascular plants (Tracheophyta), birds (Aves), as well as moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) in Germany. These taxa have been prioritized according to current demands of German research groups (about 50 sites) aiming at analyses and modeling of distribution patterns and their changes through time. In the long term, we aim at providing data and open source software applicable for any taxon and geographic region. For this purpose, a platform for open access journals for long-term availability of professional e-journals will be established. All generated data will also be made accessible through GFBio (German Federation for Biological Data). BIOfid is supported by the LIS-Scientific Library Services and Information Systems program of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
