Research on multilingual integrated access to digital archives of Japanese culture

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K12567
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 90020:Library and information science, humanistic and social informatics-related
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: Maeda Akira 立命館大学, 情報理工学部, 教授 (20351322)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): バトジャルガル ビルゲサイハン 立命館大学, 総合科学技術研究機構, 助教 (30725396) ; SONG Yuting 立命館大学, 情報理工学部, 助教 (50849388)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 多言語処理 / レコード同定 / 情報検索 / 情報推薦 / 文字認識 / メタデータ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research is aimed at realizing an integrated multilingual information access environment for Japanese cultural digital archives that are hosted not only in Japan but also around the world. The research is based on the cross-language record linkage technology for Japanese cultural databases that has been developed by the principal investigator and collaborators, and it integrates the bilingual information retrieval technology for databases written in Japanese, the graph-based information recommendation technology for digital archives, and the character and image recognition of ownership and rakkan seals. As the result of the research, international journal papers have been published for each technology, and some of the technologies have been integrated into publicly open and working Japanese cultural digital archives, thus achieving our initial goal.

Free Research Field

人文情報学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の成果により，世界中に散在する人文系ディジタルアーカイブへの統合アクセスが可能となる．また，日本文化ディジタルアーカイブに対する海外の日本研究者からの容易な情報アクセスを支援する環境が実現する．これらより，これまでの人文系研究のように特定の分野や言語に閉じることなく，これらの壁を越えた，従来の人文学研究の方法論にとらわれない新たな研究手法への発展が期待でき，人文系研究の進展に貢献できると考えている．