Using bibliographic resources by cultural institutions or their integration (example of the iSybislaw system)

Abstract

The article reflects on the state of and perspectives for cooperation between creators of contemporary bibliographies in digital environment and cultural institutions, like publishing houses, libraries, repositories, archives. The text points out perspectives and chosen problems solutions concerning cooperation between these entities, using the example of the information retrieval system iSybislaw, created by the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. Information resources of the system are used by scientific publishers (Publishing House of the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences), various types of repositories of written and oral texts, libraries, and institutional portals. The article describes models of integrating these resources. Deliberations led to the conclusion, that nowadays, when growing number of bibliographies work in digital environments, there is a need for close cooperation and integration with cultural institutions. It would lead to broadening the circle of recipients of bibliographic information, which is a treasury of knowledge and cultural heritage. In the case of the iSybislaw system, integration led to growing number of recipients of topics and trends connected with studies of all Slavic languages. The keywords language used in the system enabled presentation of richness of terminology in all Slavic languages, historical development of Slavic studies, trends in contemporary Slavic territory, as well as growing connections between linguistics and other sciences, e.g. anthropology, sociology, psychology, history, literary studies, cultural studies.