2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Survey of Arabic Studies Database
| Project/Area Number |
09551008
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B).
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 展開研究 |
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| Research Field |
文化人類学(含民族学・民俗学)
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| Research Institution | The National Museum of Ethnology |
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Principal Investigator |
NISHIO Tetsuo National Museum of Ethnology, Associate Prof, 民族文化研究部, 助教授 (90221473)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ODA Jun'ichi Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies Associate Prof., アジアアフリカ言語文化研究所, 助教授 (10177230)
SASAHARA Ryoji Research Fellow, 民族文化研究部, 助手 (90290923)
USUKI Akira The Japan Center for Area Studies. Associate Prof, 地域研究企画交流センター, 助教授 (40203525)
HOSAKA Shuji Middle East Institute of Japan Research Fellow, 中東調査会, 研究員
SHINDO Yoko The Middle Eastern Culture Center in Japan Research Fellow, 中近東文化センター, 研究員 (50260146)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1997 – 2000
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| Keywords | Arabic studies / information network / database / data-processing of Arabic / computerized encyclopedia |
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| Research Abstract |
l. As for the work for database construction of international Arab research information network, the questionnaire about the present condition of the Arab research database were sent to researchers and research organizations (600 overseas fellows and 100 domestic fellows) in Japan and overseas. We made the extensive list of Arabic research institutes in the world. We exchanged opinions with the overseas research organization about Arabic research database construction and about the way international common use will be performed in the future (for United Kingdom in 1997, for Malaysia in 1998, for the United Arab Emirates and Yemen in 1999, and Saudi Arabia in 2000).
2. As for the work for development of an Arab electronic encyclopedia system, we constructed Arab tribal name database, and published A Dictionary of Arab Tribes. This database is now tentatively made accessible to the public on the homepage of Prof. Jun'ichi Oda (research associate of this project) of the Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. We made computerized text-database for the Arabic original of Arabian Nights (the Thousand Nights and One Night). Based on this database, we are planning to publish A Dictionary of Cultural Idioms in the Arabian Nights. Arabic literary research / translation reference database in Japan was also created, and the report was published on the basis of this database. The Arabic linguistic research reference database in Japan was also created, and the report was published on the basis of this database. We are now under construction of the database for intermediate Arabic Dictionary.
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