Specialised Information Service for Jewish Studies

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Kai Eckert; Daniela Poth
• Subject Area: Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 286004564

The Specialized Information Service (FID) for Jewish Studies, established in 2016 at the University Library Frankfurt am Main in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Kai Eckert (Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart), serves scholars from the humanities and social sciences working on Judaism, Jewish culture and/or the State of Israel in the past and present.The online portal of the FID Jewish Studies - www.jewishstudies.de - provides access to its broad portfolio of services: general information on the field of Jewish Studies and Israel Studies, a subject catalogue that offers a specific search environment and extensive metadata enrichment, access to sources and research literature in print and digital formats, the publication service JudaicaDoc, and two data services tailored for Jewish Studies: JudaicaLink and Revrit. JudaicaLink processes and publishes data based on reference works on Jewish culture and history as Linked Data. In addition, JudaicaLinks Labs is tasked to improve access to digital holdings in Jewish Studies based on text mining. The service Revrit, developed by the FID Jewish Studies, automatically enriches romanized records for Hebraica with Original script.The third project phase will be dedicated to four main goals 1) consolidating the FID Jewish Studies as the central information infrastructure for Jewish Studies in Germany which will include improving the portal architecture, 2) expanding the data services to support researchers, in particular through curating qualitative data (incl. research data) and supporting special collections, 3) by sustainably providing Jewish Studies researchers with specialized literature and e-resources, including demand-driven publication services, and 4) by further strengthening the role of the FID Jewish Studies as a key infrastructure partner and service provider for researchers.The FID Jewish Studies cooperates extensively with FIDs in related fields – including the FID Middle Eastern, North African, and Islamic Studies, the FID History, the FID East, East-Central, and Southeast Europe, and the FID Philosophy – and actively contributes to the further development of the overall FID system. Furthermore, the FID Jewish Studies engages with broader information infrastructures (e.g. NFDI) representing the interest of Jewish Studies and providing its expertise on multilingual and multiscript data.

• DFG Programme: Acquisition and Provision (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Co-Investigators: Dr. Kerstin von der Krone; Dr.-Ing. Thomas Risse