Interfaces to meta data are offered, data tools and other tools are presented, and curated data collections are provided in order to facilitate research on and with the data. An extra area is dedicated to the material-scientific and art-technological research at the Institute of Conservation of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. The new service is being set up currently. The BSBlab will be further developed and expanded continuously.

The BSB holds the largest digital data stock of all German libraries in the form of digitized manuscripts, printed works, music materials, maps, photographs, newspapers and journals. In addition to providing far more than four million digitized items, the total holdings of 37.2 media units constitute a voluminous corpus of bibliographic data. These meta data and the digital resources are now accessible for everybody for browsing, downloading and further processing via various interfaces and access points.

Meta data of the comprehensive media holdings can be retrieved automatically via data interfaces. Interfaces of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and cooperatively provided services are described in detail, also providing exemplary searches, on the pages of the BSBlab. By using the interfaces, it is now possible to conduct script- or programme-driven searches and to use the results for your research projects and evaluations.

Details of projects or of special data sets are described in the form of curated data collections, OCR full texts are provided for download, and examples of meta data queries on interfaces are documented. Sets describe certain data collections which are available for further processing.

Moreover, various tools are presented which can be helpful when compiling, processing and evaluating data sets. In addition to step-by-step tutorials, also external research data services and special search tools are described.

The BSB's own Institute of Conservation conducts material-scientific and art-technological research with state-of-the-art analytic methods. On the pages of the BSBlab, the broad spectrum of analytic methods is described, research data for further post-use are provided and projects are described. Thus, for example, spectrally optimised pictures can be presented and made accessible for further research.

Dr. Klaus Ceynowa, Director General of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, explains:

The objective of the BSBlab is to provide interfaces and tools and to thus facilitate access to the multifarious and comprehensive data collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek for the community of researchers. The new service is directed to the quantitatively working digital humanities in particular.

To the BSBlab (web pages in German):
https://www.bsb-muenchen.de/bsblab

Press release for download  (PDF, 106 KB)  (in German)

Contact

Ronny Sternecker
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
User Services
Phone  +49 89 28638-2047
ronny.sternecker@bsb-muenchen.de

Peter Schnitzlein
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Communication
Phone  +49 89 28638-2429
presse@bsb-muenchen.de