Digital Libraries

No.8, October 1996
University of Library and Information Science
Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki 305, Japan

  1. An Overview of Digital Information in Medicine: New Resources for Practitioners and Patients
    Ellen Gay Detlefsen DLS, University of Pittsburgh
  2. Construction of Digital Library at NAIST
    Masakazu IMAI, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
  3. SGML as a Tool for Writing and Editing Academic Journal Articles -- for Parallel Publishing of Printed and Fulltext DB of "Joho Kanri" at JICST
    MORITA Utako, SHIMMYO Makiko, SUZUKI Masahiko, ISHIGURO Hiroyasu
    Japan Science and Technorogy Corporation, Information Center for Science and Technology
  4. A Development of books digitizing system ``Information Factory'' for the "Universal Library"
    Toshiyuki KAMIYA, Hideaki DAIMON, Kazuo ISHIDA, Satoshi SEGAWA, Noburu NAKAJIMA and Misa NAMIUCHI
    NEC Corporation, Kansai C&C Research Laboratories
  5. Building "Asahi Shimbun headline Database 1945-1995" by fast full-text Search Method
    Ei NAKAMURA, Data Base Section of Electronic Media and Broadcasting Division, The Asahi Shimbun
  6. Development of "Library Information Network System" on Community Network System Project
    Masahiro KUSUNOKI, The Japan Research Institute, Limited
  7. Identifying a Unit of the Networked Information Resouce - URI of the IETF -
    Motomu FUKUDA, Toshihiko NOZUE, Akira NEMOTO, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo

An Overview of Digital Information in Medicine: New Resources for Practitioners and Patients

Ellen Gay Detlefsen DLS,
Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Sciences
School of Information Sciences
Core Faculty, Center for Biomedical Informatics
School of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh PA 15260 USA
phone: 412-624-9444 - FAX: 412-624-5231
email: ellen@sis.pitt.edu
URL: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~egd

Abstract

This paper presents a discussion of trends in the use of digital libraries in medicine and health care, using examples chosen primarily from North American experience, with a few examples from Japanese practice. The trends fall into five categories: clinical digital libraries; digital research libraries; digital libraries for education; digital libraries of patient and consumer health information; and digital libraries that enhance traditional medical libraries. In addition, five areas of social concern with respect to digital medical libraries are briefly discussed: cost, design, access, quality control, and indexing issues. A list of URLs and selected readings accompany the paper.

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Construction of Digital Library at NAIST

Masakazu IMAI
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, 630-01
TEL : 07437-2-5371
FAX : 07437-2-5379

Abstract

In this paper, the author describes the outline of Digital Library of Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST). The Digital Library of NAIST is in operation from April of 1996. The statistics of the library and some consideration based on the experiences are also described.

Keywords

Digital Library, Digital Video, Operation, Statistics

A Document Image Database System with Full-text Search Functions

SENDA Shuji
Information Technology Research Labs., NEC Corp.
4-1-1, Miyazaki, Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki, 216, JAPAN
Phone: +81 44-856-8487, Fax: +81 44-856-2236, E-Mail:senda@pat.cl.nec.co.jp

MINOH Michihiko
Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-01, JAPAN
Phone: +81 75-753-5995, E-Mail: minoh@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp

IKEDA Katsuo
Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-01, JAPAN
Tel: +81 75-753-5371, E-Mail: ikeda@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Abstract

Digital Libraries need easy and low-price methods of digitizing large number of books and magazines, and thus, raw (not-modified) OCR texts are used for full-text search functions. In this paper, we propose to use hypotheses of characters (character lattices) instead of a raw OCR text to achieve higher rate of successful search. The experimental results tested on the prototype of the document image database system show that the accuracy of the character lattice (of which size was 4.02 times larger than that of the true text) was 99.2% even if the character recognition rate was 93.2%, and the rate of successful search was 97.8%.

Keywords

Character Recognition, Character Lattice, Full-text Search, Document Image Database

SGML as a Tool for Writing and Editing Academic Journal Articles -- for Parallel Publishing of Printed and Fulltext DB of "Joho Kanri" at JICST

MORITA Utako, SHIMMYO Makiko, SUZUKI Masahiko, ISHIGURO Hiroyasu
Japan Science and Technorogy Corporation, Information Center for Science and Technology
5-3,Yonban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102 JAPAN
Tel:+81-3-5214-8415
Fax:+81-3-5214-8417
u2morita@mr.jst-c.go.jp

Abstract

The publishing division of the "Joho Kanri" journal at JICST has developed a set of Document Type Definition (DTD) and an experimental SGML-based publishing tool as a prototype of the next generation publishing environment, which will have tools for efficient editing, publishing and delivery of the journal and for publishing in multiple media, e.g., printed paper, fulltext database, CD-ROM, and WWW. The division has published an issue of "Joho Kanri" (Vol.38, No.8) encoded in SGML based on the DTD via CD-ROM and the Internet in parallel with publishing in print. The division has been working on evaluation of usability of SGML in the writing and editing processes and parallel production of the printed and electronic journals. This paper describes the experimental publishing tools and discusses key aspects based on the experiences on the tools.

keywords

SGML, publishing, editing, writing, DTD, full-text database

A Development of books digitizing system ``Information Factory'' for the "Universal Library"

Toshiyuki KAMIYA, Hideaki DAIMON, Kazuo ISHIDA,
Satoshi SEGAWA, Noburu NAKAJIMA and Misa NAMIUCHI

NEC Corporation, Kansai C&C Research Laboratories
1-4-24 Shoromi Chuou-ku Osaka, 540, JAPAN
Phone: +81-6-945-3213, Fax: +81-6-945-3096
E-Mail: {kamiya, daimon, ishidakz}@obp.cl.nec.co.jp, segawa@mech.cl.nec.co.jp, noboru@pat.cl.nec.co.jp, nami@swl.cl.nec.co.jp

Abstract

It is natural that digital libraries storage and supply documents in digital format from the beginning, but It is also necessary that a huge amount of old ``paper documents'' information can be searched by digital library.

We propose and develop a integrated digitaizing system ``Information Factory'' for a part of digital libary concept ``Universal Library''. it integrates scanning process, OCR process, structurizing process and storing process and it aims at easily digitizing documents for non-professional computer users.

Keywords

Digital Library, Retroactive input,Document Recoginition, Document Structure

Building "Asahi Shimbun headline Database 1945-1995" by fast full-text Search Method

Ei NAKAMURA
Data Base Section of Electronic Media and Broadcasting Division, The Asahi Shimbun
5-3-2,Tsukiji, Chuoku, Tokyo, 104-11, Japan
Phone: +81 3-5541-8552, Fax: +81 3-5541-8553, E-mail: PBB02160@niftyserve.or.jp

Abstract

"Asahi Shimbun Headline Database 1945-1995" is a database of all headlines in The Asahi Shimbun reduced-size collective edition (Shukusatuban),issued monthly. When you search an article carried during the 50 years after World War II, just type a keyword, then you can get the article's publication date, page number, and colum position in the newspaper. This databse covers almost 3,070,000 headlines. We provided this database with fast full-text search method. It is used on-line system in The Asahi Shimbun. CD-ASAX, a set of 5 CD-ROMs , is also available.

Keywords

Asahi Shimbun Headline Database, Shukusatuban, full-text search, CD-ASAX, CD-ROM

Development of "Library Information Network System" on Community Network System Project

Masahiro KUSUNOKI
The Japan Research Institute, Limited
16, Ichibancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102, JAPAN
Phone: +81 3-3288-4804, Fax: +81 3-3288-4808,
E-Mail: kusunoki@tcom.jri.co.jp

Junichi MIHARA
The Japan Research Institute, Limited
E-Mail: mihara@tcom.jri.co.jp

Abstract

This paper describes feature of Library Information Network system.

Keywords

library, inter library loan, MARC, bibliography, datebase

Identifying a Unit of the Networked Information Resouce - URI of the IETF -

Motomu FUKUDA, Toshihiko NOZUE, Akira NEMOTO
Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo
7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113, JAPAN
Tel: 03-3812-2111(ext.3976) Fax: 03-5800-6810
E-mail: {fukuda, tnozue, anemoto}@educhan.p.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Keywords

Networked Information Resource, IETF, URI, URN
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