New Innovative Access to Educational and Cultural Multimedia Contents

Yuka EgusaEducational Resources Research Center, National Institute forEducational Policy Research

Takashi NagatsukaTsurumi University, Dept. of Library, Archival and Information Studies

IFLA 2006 Seoul21 August 2006, Seoul, Korea

An overview of the various types of information source on the Web

Museum

4.Web Portal or Gateway

3. Web pages or Web sites

2.Metadata Sources

Library

MetadataMetadataMetadata

Physical world

Library

1.Multimedia and full-text materials

Metadata Metadata Metadata

Creating

Metadata

Digital world

Photographing Scanning

Figure 1.

Two collections of educational and cultural contents

Library of Education’s collection

Tsurumi collection

Research outcome reports

The classical Japanese ancient poems and maps

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:

Books related to education

Magazines and journals related to education

Old textbooks of Japan

Foreign textbooks

Modern textbooks of Japan

Personal collections Government documents

for post-war reform

Research outcome reports

Multiple collections: Two types of search

Books related to educationMagazines and journals

collectionOld textbooks

collection

Foreign textbookscollection

Modern textbookscollection

I want a textbook which I used when I was a high school student.

Others are interested in only part of the materials and need to specify their own needs toward a particular collection

I want to know about foreign language

education in Japan.

Some users hope to search a whole set of collections seamlessly at the same time

Cross collection search

Individual collection search

Search interface for cross collection

Select collections

Magazines and journals

Pre-war textbooks

Title

Author

Publisher

Request No

All field

:Waka (“Japanese Poem” in English)

Search (submit)

Figure 2.

Cross-search result page

Hit number

To download all brief recordsNext page

Return to search interface

Result

Figure 3.

Bibliographic record page

Publication location

Publication year

Element name

ValueReturn to search interface

To content

1782 (Tenmei 2)

Edo

Figure 4.

Scanned image of the original material

Figure 5.

Pictures and manuscripts help users to understand contents.

Individual collection search

Each collection has different features and different information needs.

→　We adapted contents of each collection in various ways.

Search field?Scan image?

Fulltext?Search option?

Pre-War Textbooks of Japan

Research Outcome Reports

Pre-War Textbooks of Japan and Research Outcome Reports

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.

Search interface for individual collection

Pre-War Textbooks of Japan

Research Outcome Reports

Type of school Principal researcher

Database

The digitalization process

PDF:A textbook is stored

as a PDF file; only page image

Microfilm of books

Card catalogfor books

Bibliographyrecord

Pre-War Textbooks

A report is stored in a folderA report is stored in a folder

Bibliographyrecord

Research Outcome Reports

PDF:(Each chapter of a report is stored as a PDF file;

image and text)

HTML:table of contents

51,600

Figure 6 and 7.

Database

low-qualityand

hi-quantity

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