Digital Libraries

No.9, March 1997
University of Library and Information Science
Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki 305, Japan

  1. Japanese Web Information Network: January 1996
    Itaru NAKAGAWA, Hidehiro ISHIZUKA, Takeo YAMAMOTO, Univ. of Library and Information Science
  2. Internet presentation : how to design
    Hiroatsu FUKUDA, Library, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  3. The Electronic Archive of Early American Fiction at the University of Virginia
    David Seaman, Kendon Stubbs, University of Virginia Library
  4. The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library
    David Seaman, Kendon Stubbs, University of Virginia Library
  5. University of Virginia / University of Pittsburgh Japanese Text Initiative
    Sachie Noguchi, East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh
  6. Library Automation in Thailand
    Vilas Wuwongse, Asian Institute of Technology
  7. An Information Retrieval using Conceptual Index Term for Technical Paper on Digital Library
    Chinatsu HORII, Masakazu IMAI and Kunihiro CHIHARA
  8. A New Method of Evaluation for the Effect of the Creativity Support System using Digital Library
    Konomu Dobashi, Koichi Hori, Shinichi Nakasuka, Hiroyuki Yamauchi, Ryuki Tachibana

Demonstrations

  1. The demonstration of Z39.50 servers for Japanese bibliographies
    Hiroyuki ANZAI, Takeo YAMAMOTO, Hidehiro ISHIZUKA, University of Library and Information Science
  2. A Multilingual Browser for WWW
    Akira Maeda, University of Library and Information Science
  3. A Children's Book Selection Assistance System
    Tetsuo Sakaguchi, University of Library and Information Science
  4. Japanese Old Tales - A Multilingual Digital Collection
    Myriam Dartois, University of Library and Information Science

Japanese Web Information Network: January 1996

Itaru NAKAGAWA, Hidehiro ISHIZUKA, Takeo YAMAMOTO
University of Library and Information Science
1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan
Tel: +81-298-59-1111, Fax: +81-298-59-1093
E-mail:{itaru,ishizuka,yamamoto}@ulis.ac.jp

Abstract

Configuration and activity of Japanese World Wide Web (Web) information network were statistically studied using 6.83 million link data collected by a s oftware robot (by Kento Tamura of Waseda University) in January 1996. Among 3,560 sites running 12,204 servers, 1,235 were chosen as active sites: links among them were 5.85 million, or 85.6 % of the total. For each active site, 1) the number of internal, external outgoing, and external incoming links, and 2 ) referring, and being refereed percentages were calculated. For six groups of active sites, 1) the total, the average, and the median of the number of links between groups, and 2) the average referri ng percentage, and bi-reference percentage were obtained. The above data were used 1) to analyze the activities of those groups, 2) to choose 50 most active sites, and 3) to elucidate their interdependence.

Keywords

World Wide Web, Information Network, Statistical Analysis, Active Sites, Japan

Internet presentation : how to design

Hiroatsu FUKUDA
Tokyo Institute of Technology Library
2-12-1, Ohokayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

abstract

Based on an example of presentation by using the Internet, some recent topics, especially the planning of presentation composed mainly of images, and some practical points to notice are reported.

keywords

Internet, Presentation, HTML, Hyper Text, Java, JavaScript, Browser, Plug-in, Multimedia, Image, Animation, Audio, Composition, Layout, Copyright

The Electronic Archive of Early American Fiction at the University of Virginia

David Seaman
Director, Electronic Text Center
Alderman Library
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, U.S.A.
Tel.: 804-924-3230 Fax: 804-924-1431
E-mail: etext@virginia.edu
URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu

Kendon Stubbs
Associate University Librarian
Alderman Library
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, U.S.A.
804-924-3026 Fax: 804-924-1431
E-mail: kstubbs@virginia.edu

Abstract:

The University of Virginia Library has recently received a $400,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to digitize and put on the Web 558 rare volumes of early American fiction, and to study the economics of electronic versions of rare books. The two-year project is called the Early American Fiction project (EAF). The texts chosen for the project include first printings of James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, and other novels and short stories. Two versions of each text will be made available: a TEI-conformant SGML-tagged text and color images of the pages of the first editions--a total of 118,000 pages. The project will conclude in 1998 with an economic study of usage of the e-texts compared with usage of the original rare books.
This paper is the first formal progress report on this project, focusing on the challenges and benefits of converting fragile rare books to electronic formats.

Keywords:

Digital Library, Fulltext Databases, Digital Images, Electronic Texts, TIFF , JPEG, SGML, WWW, Information Retrieval, Research Grants, Rare Books

The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library


David Seaman
Director, Electronic Text Center
Alderman Library
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, U.S.A.
Tel.: 804-924-3230 Fax: 804-924-1431
E-mail: etext@virginia.edu
URL: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu

Kendon Stubbs
Associate University Librarian
Alderman Library
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903, U.S.A.
804-924-3026 Fax: 804-924-1431
E-mail: kstubbs@virginia.edu

Abstract

The Electronic Text Center is a library-based humanities computing service, with two main areas of activity: it builds and maintains an on-line archive of electronic texts and images, and it builds and maintains a broad-based user community in the humanities. After five years of activity, we have a large body of online SGML texts in a variety of languages, and after hundreds of training sessions we have a body of student and faculty users who are making sophisticated use of our services in their teaching and research.

Keywords

Electronic Text Center : electronic text : SGML : HTML : digital image : full-text database : digital library : on-line library : humanities computing : internet training : teaching and technology.

University of Virginia / University of Pittsburgh Japanese Text Initiative

Sachie Noguchi
East Asian Library
264 Hillman
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 U.S.A.
Tel:+1-412-648-8842,Fax:+1-412-648-7683,E-mail:noguchi+@pitt.edu

Abstract:

The University of Virginia Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library combined their strengths and started the Japanese Text Initia tive; collaborative efforts to make texts of classical Japanese literature available o n the World Wide Web (WWW). The Web site was open to the public on December 5, 1995. The first text of this joint initiative was Ogura Hyakunin Isshu = 100 Poems by 100 Poets. This project includes Japanese texts of all 100 poems, romanized transliterationof Japanese texts, English translation by MacCauley, images of th e cards of woodblock print published in 1867, and the Uta Karuta game. Each text (Japan ese, romanization, and English) is fully searchable by using its respective script.
This paper is the first formal progress report of this project, focusing on its development, problems encountered, impacts, benefits of the collaborative projec t, and future plan.

Keywords:

Digital Library, Fulltext Databases, Electronic Texts, Japanese Language Electro nic Texts, SGML, WWW, Information Retrieval, Hyakunin Isshu, Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, 100 Poems by 100 Poets, Uta Karuta Game, Waka

Library Automation in Thailand

Vilas Wuwongse
Computer Science and Information Management Program
School of Advanced Technologies
Asian Institute of Technology
Km. 42 Paholyothin Highway
Klong Luang, Pathumthani 12120, Thailand
email: vw@cs.ait.ac.th

Abstract

The National Library of Thailand (NLT) as well as Thailand's university libraries have been very active in automating their systems and services to meet increasing demands for various service types and advanced information technology. Under the leadership of the Ministry of University Affairs(MUA), several automation, digitization and networking programs are being carried out by NLT and a group of Thai university libraries. NLT has automated its system by employing DYNIX for acquisition, cataloguing, OPAC, circulation etc., and has digitized its image documents by using MEGA MEDIA for image storage/retrieval and BRS/SEARCH for indexing. For the purpose of cross-library services and resources sharing, MUA has supported projects which link the libraries of provincial and central universities by two computer networks, called PULINET and THAILINET-M, respectively, which are outlined below together with a summary of work planned for the future.

An Information Retrieval using Conceptual Index Term for Technical Paper on Digital Library

Chinatsu HORII, Masakazu IMAI and Kunihiro CHIHARA
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-01, Japan
Tel: 07437-2-5205, Fax: 07437-2-5379
E-mail: {chinatsu, imai, chinatsu}@is.aist-nara.ac.jp

Abstract

This paper presents an approach for semantic information retrieval which is implemented on Digital Library. It is well known that Digital Library make the information retrieval automatic and possible to access immediately the every kind of media information from anywhere. However, no improvement is made for use of Digital Library about the retrieval errors based on individual differences of the concepts or senses of user's request. This is one of the significant problem for searching efficiency of information retrieval. The approach developed in this study uses not user's request itself but also concepts of the user's request to solve this problem. This makes possible to do the semantic information retrieval not merely to do the comparison of the word strings of the user's request.

keywords

Digital Library, Concept path, Query, Index Term, Request, Technical Paper

A New Method of Evaluation for the Effect of the Creativity Support System using Digital Library

Konomu Dobashi, Koichi Hori, Shinichi Nakasuka, Hiroyuki Yamauchi, Ryuki Tachibana
Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (Hori Lab)
The University of Tokyo
4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153
tel:03-3481-4486
fax:03-3481-4585
dobashi@ai.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new method of evaluation for the effect of the creativity support system using digital library. The important point to evaluate the effect of the creativity support system is quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis. In our proposed method, we grasped the quantity of creativity by increase and decrease of terms in the hypothesis which written by subject using our system. Moreover our system can use for qualitative analysis of the results.We can visualize the change of conceptual structure by eliciting terms from the hypothesis which written by subject through the two experiments. We also show the results of the experiments compared with our system and NCSA Mosaic by subjects.

Keywords

creativity, digital library, evaluation method, conceptual network, visualizaiton, problem solving,

Demonstrations

The demonstration of Z39.50 servers for Japanese bibliographies

Hiroyuki ANZAI, Takeo YAMAMOTO, Hidehiro ISHIZUKA
University of Libarary and Information Science
1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 Japan
Tel: +81-298-59-1111, FAX: +81-298-59-1093
E-mail:{anzai, yamamoto, ishizuka}@ulis.ac.jp

Abstract

Two experimental Z39.50 (ANSI standard for Information Retrieval) servers for Ja panese bibliographic databases, JAPAN/MARC and ULIS-OPAC, are developed.

Keywords

Z39.50, OPAC, JAPAN/MARC, Japanese, bibliography, catalog

sugimoto@ulis.ac.jp