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Digital Silkroad Document Library at NII: The Design of the Multilingual Annotation Support System

Digital Silkroad Document Library at NII: The Design of the Multilingual Annotation Support System. Takeo YAMAMOTO, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Sonoko SATO and Kinji ONO National Institute of Informatics Tokyo, Japan. In this presentation:.

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Digital Silkroad Document Library at NII: The Design of the Multilingual Annotation Support System

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  1. Digital Silkroad Document Library at NII: The Design of the Multilingual Annotation Support System Takeo YAMAMOTO, Asanobu KITAMOTO, Sonoko SATO and Kinji ONO National Institute of Informatics Tokyo, Japan

  2. In this presentation: • National Institute of Informatics (NII) : Its research, services, and education • Digital SilkRoads (DSR) Project • Toyo-Bunko Document Archive • Multilingual Annotation Support System (MASS)

  3. NACSIS(est. 1986) →ＮＩＩ(est.2000)

  4. Foundation of Informatics Infrastructure Systems Software Multimedia Information Intelligent Systems Human and Social Information Research Information Research Center for Testbeds and Prototyping Research Center for Information Resources NII Research6 ResearchDivisions 2 Research Centers

  5. ＮＩＩ　Ｓｅｒｖｉｃｅｓ • On-Line Library Cataloging Service (NACSIS-CAT) • Information Service (GeNii) • Network Backbone Service (SINET/SUPER-SINET)

  6. NII Services on the Web(Accessible from GeNii) • Books and journals: Webcat (http://webcat.nii.ac.jp/webcat_eng.html) • Japanese books: Webcat Plus (http://webcatplus.nii.ac.jp/) • Japanese academic societies: Academic Society Home Village (http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/index-e.html) • etc.

  7. Education at NII • Ph. D course in informatics (accepts only those with master degrees or equivalent) • NII Scholarship for promising foreign students • Classes in English (Japanese not required) • http://www.nii.ac.jp/graduate/

  8. Digital SilkRoads Project • A joint research project centered at NII with UNESCO, Hitachi, Toyo Bunko and several other universities and institutions • By using IT, preserve, restore, and facilitate access to Silkroad research information • International Workshops: DSR2001(Tokyo) and DSR2003(Nara) • Homepage: http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/

  9. Toyo Bunko Document Archive • Digital archive of rare books related to Silkroads owned by Toyo Bunko (“The Oriental Library”) • Presently 5,623 pages (27 books) and increasing (ca. 3,000 pages/year) • Original high-res color (4000*4000), medium-res grayscale(2000*2000), low-res color(900*900) • Web page will be open to the public soon (http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/)

  10. Multilingual access to the database:Requirements • Original language: German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese (classic), English, etc. • Searchable in the original language (words) • Searchable by a technical term thesaurus (names of places, artifacts, etc.) constructed from the database, with terms in the original language PLUS corresponding Japanese and English terms • Searchable from maps and a timeline

  11. Database creation process

  12. Multimedia Annotation Support System (MASS) Requirements • Ease of use-Copy & paste/right click/selection • Multilingual data within same table • Fuzzy (expanded) search that tolerates OCR error and variation with languages • Cooperative work possible • Front-end to DBMS

  13. MASS Initial State

  14. MASS query input

  15. MASS search response

  16. MASS Right-Click Menu

  17. Conclusion • Digital archive and its ACTIVE USAGE is important for research and cultural material • We have to change the mind-set of owners/managers/inheritors • Used, shared information increases in value • Multilingual access is important for universal usability and international cooperation

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