Constructiong the database and the portal site for databases in the Humanities

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26540177
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Tezukayama University
• Principal Investigator: Kawaguchi Hiroshi 帝塚山大学, 文学部, 教授 (80224749)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 人文系データベース / ポータルサイト / メタデータ / データ表現 / アンケート

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In thie project, we have released the database of databases in the Humanities on the web site of the Council for Databases in the Humanities, Japan. The URL for this database system is http://www.jinbun-db.com. We also released web apprication programs for the respondent in order to collect questionnairs on the databases in the Humanities. And we have developed the web apprication programs for the administrator for managing this system. The National Diet Library provided us the D-Navi data, which includes information on approximately 22,000 databases. We also collected the questionnairs on approximately 1000 databases with this web application programs.

Free Research Field

人文社会情報学・歴史地理学・歴史人口学