New Innovative Access to Educational and Cultural Multimedia Contents

1. New Innovative Access to Educational and Cultural Multimedia Contents IFLA 2006 Seoul 21 August 2006, Seoul, Korea Yuka Egusa Educational Resources Research Center, National Institute for Educational Policy Research Takashi Nagatsuka Tsurumi University, Dept. of Library, Archival and Information Studies

2. Metadata Metadata Metadata An overview of the various types of information source on the Web Physical world Library Museum Library Creating Scanning Photographing Metadata 2.Metadata Sources 3. Web pages or Web sites Metadata Metadata Metadata 1.Multimedia and full-text materials Digital world 4.Web Portal or Gateway Figure 1.

3. Library of Education’s collection Tsurumi collection Two collections of educational and cultural contents Old textbooks of Japan The classical Japanese ancient poems and maps Research outcome reports

4. Personal collections Foreign textbooks Government documents for post-war reform Magazines and journals related to education Modern textbooks of Japan Books related to education Research outcome reports Old textbooks of Japan Library of Education’s Collection • The library is one of the largest special libraries for educational resources in Japan. • The library has a variety of collections related education such as:

5. Multiple collections: Two types of search Some users hope to search a whole set of collections seamlessly at the same time I want to know about foreign language education in Japan. Cross collection search Books related to education Foreign textbooks collection Magazines and journals collection I want a textbook which I used when I was a high school student. Individual collection search Old textbooks collection Modern textbooks collection Others are interested in only part of the materials and need to specify their own needs toward a particular collection

6. Search interface for cross collection :Waka (“Japanese Poem” in English) Search (submit) All field Title Select collections Author Magazines and journals Publisher Pre-war textbooks Request No Figure 2.

7. Cross-search result page Hit number Return to search interface To download all brief records Next page Result Figure 3.

8. Bibliographic record page To content Element name Return to searchinterface Value Publication location Edo Publication year 1782 (Tenmei 2) Figure 4.

9. Scanned image of the original material • Pictures and manuscripts help users to understand contents. Figure 5.

10. Individual collection search • Each collection has different features and different information needs. →We adapted contents of each collection in various ways. • Pre-War Textbooks • of Japan • Research Outcome • Reports Search field? Scan image? Fulltext? Search option?

11. Pre-War Textbooks of Japan This collection is composed of about 51,600 textbooks published in Japan from Edo-era(17th-19th centuries) to the end of the World War II Research Outcome Reports This collection comprises the digital content of the reports of research project funded by the Japanese Government. Pre-War Textbooks of Japan and Research Outcome Reports

12. Pre-War Textbooks of Japan Research Outcome Reports Type of school Search interface for individual collection Principal researcher

13. Database Card catalog for books The digitalization process low-quality and hi-quantity Bibliography record Pre-War Textbooks 51,600 PDF:A textbook is stored as a PDF file; only page image Database Microfilm of books Research Outcome Reports Bibliography record A report is stored in a folder PDF: (Each chapter of a report is stored as a PDF file; image and text) HTML: table of contents Figure 6 and 7.

14. Library of Education project • Multiple collections • Simple search interface • Adapting contents of each collection • Multimedia contents • Pre-War Textbooks of Japan • Research Outcome Reports • Government documents for post-war reform