Digital Collections

The Digital Collections on Biodiversity contain digitised literature, mainly from the holdings of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library, but also from partner libraries. Our digitisation efforts are focused on Central European literature of the 20th century. In addition to facilitating the accessibility of literature, the purpose of digitisation is to generate a corpus for text mining and to transform journals that were previously only available in printed form. Until further notice, the presentation of the digitised literature will take place on the platform of the university library; in future, the presentation will be integrated into the BIOfid portal.

Corpus for BIOfid's text mining approach

The corpus for text mining will include not only literature digitised by the University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg, but also digitised material from external projects. The BIOfid corpus for text mining therefore consists of several segments focused on biodiversity in Central Europe:

A) Biological literature digitized by BIOfid (mainly journals of the 20th century);

B) Botanical literature digitized in earlier projects of the UB JCS (mainly journals of the 19th century);

C) Biological literature which can be provided by Zobodat.at;

D) Biological literature that can be provided by BHL.

A) Biological literature digitized by BIOfid (Collection "Biodiversity")

B) Literature digitized during earlier project "Botanische Zeitschriften"

C) Literature provided by Zobodat.at for text mining

D) Literature provided by BHL for text mining