| Project/Area Number | 08680424 |
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
情報システム学(含情報図書館学)
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| Research Institution | University of Library and Information Science |
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Principal Investigator |
SUGIMOTO Shigeo Univ.of Library and Infomation Science, Faculty of Library and Information Science, Associate Professor, 図書館情報学部, 助教授 (40154489)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
FUJITA Takehisa Kyoritsu Women's University, Faculty of Letters, Assistant Professor, 文芸学部, 専任講師 (50238573)
SAKAGUCHI Tetsuo Univ.of Library and Information Science, Facluty of Library and Information Scie, 図書館情報学部, 助手 (10225790)
MUSHAKOJI Sumiko Univ.of Library and Information Science, Faluty of Library and Information Scien, 図書館情報学部, 助教授 (00241836)
TABATA Koichi Univ. of Library and Information Science, Faluty of Library and Information Scie, 図書館情報学部, 教授 (50026085)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1996 – 1997
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| Project Status |
Completed(Fiscal Year 1997)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,400,000 (Direct Cost : ¥2,400,000)
Fiscal Year 1997 : ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost : ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1996 : ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost : ¥1,400,000)
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| Keywords | Multilingual Document Browser / Multilingual Information Access / Digital Library / Global Access to Digital Library / Multilingual Electronic Text Collection / Multilingual Gateway Service / World Wide Web / Internet / 多言語ブラウザ / ディジタル図書館 / Digital Library / 多言語文書アクセスサービス / 多言語OPAC / メタデータ |
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| Research Abstract |
WWW browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer, are widely used in the world.
These browosers are widely accepted as a user interface by many digital library projects.
However, the multilingual functions provided on the WWW and the browsers are insufficent for the digital library, because they can display texts encoded in only one character code set at a time and because clients usually do not have sufficient fonts display foreing docuemnts.
On the other hand, multilinguality is the essential function to realize the digital library.
The investigators have focused on the following aspects in this study ;
(1) development of a set of software tools for retrieving and browsing multilingual cocuments, and
(2) deelopment of software tools for users to use multilingual documents in accordance with their environment.
The investigators have developed a multilingual browser technology named MHTML (multligual HTML) and an MHTML gateway server and an applet to display multilingual texts. They implemented the gateway server that transforms a source HTML document into an MHTML object which is displayd by the applet on a WWW borwser.
The software is open for public and downloadable from the WWW site maintained by the investigators at the Univesity of Library and Information Science.
The investigators have developed an electronic text collection of Japanese folk tales written in French, English and Japanese. The text is combined with the MHTML technology and they are viewable on any client only if it is Javaenabled. This collection is also open for public. Volunteers who writes tales and/or tranlates them into another language are joining this project not in Japan but also from the world.
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