N ew Stage of the Digital Library of the National Diet Library of Japan: Digitization of Japanese Books and Digital Archive Portal By Kazuharu Honda Assistant Director Book Service Division Public Services Department National Diet Library of Japan April 7, 2006 NCC Annual Open Meeting

Digital Library from the Meiji Era ( ) System Development (2000-) Opened to the public in October 2002 Renewed in April 2006 Copyright clearance ( ) Research of the expiration date of the copyright Receive permission from the copyright holders Obtain compulsory copyright release from the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Digitization ( ) TIFF images are created from 16mm microfilms

Number of volumes opened to the public ( ) 33,000 50,000 55,000 60, ,000

Expansion of the Digital Library from the Meiji Era 89,000 titles 127,000 volumes 12,910,000 images (as of April 2006) Renewed Top page

Renewed System (April ) Provided in both JPEG and JPEG2000 format Enable print and download in PDF format Introduction of OAI-PMH to distribute metadata

Next Step Add books published in the Taisho Era ( ) Five year plan from FY2005 Total 90,000 volumes Apply gray scale to digitize images Binary format image Gray scale

For more information Please see or contact: URL: An form is available on the website of the Library.

What is the NDL Digital Archive Portal? Comprehensive digital archive portal for navigating to Japanese digital resources  To the digital resources of the NDL  To the digital resources outside the NDL, in coordination with other institutions owning a variety of digital content

Goals of the NDL Digital Archive Portal Navigate users accurately to the information they need, at one stop Satisfy a wide variety of user needs  Specific services to cover a variety of subjects, types of information, user groups  Cooperation with service providers and portal sites in specific fields of knowledge Navigate users to the information resources including those published in paper form

Developing the Prototype System Prototype system of the NDL Digital Archive Portal Since FY 2004 To examine the adequacy of the techniques we adopted and the usefulness of the services Opened to the public in July

Searchable Contents at the moment ⇒ 11 contents as of April 2006 Digital Library from the Meiji Era Dnav i Magazines & Newspapers of the Gordon W. Prange Collection NDL holdings Rare Books Image Database Sample of Rare Books Image Book Guide Image Bibliographic Data Website Navigation Digitized Material Digital Okayama Encyclopedia (Okayama Prefectural Library) List of the Digital Archive Sites of government agencies (Cabinet Secretariat) Aozora Bunko (a private group) Shinsho Map (Association Press (NPO)) Referral Information Collaborative Reference Database System

Overview of the Functions Integrated Search  Keyword Search Search Support by thesauri  Associative Search  Classification Search (Nippon Decimal Classification : NDC)  New arrival Contents / Updated Contents  Access Ranking  Keyword Ranking

Keyword Search search! enter keyword choose! URL click! thumbnail jump to the relevant page 2) Search results 1) Search page 3) Detailed information 4) Relevant page click! jump to the relevant page

Search Support by thesauri hit! enter keyword “ukiyoe” Controlled vocabulary Katakana, Romaji synonym hyponym search! select the checkbox and search again! Search results Search page

Other Integrated Search Functions

For more information Please see or contact: URL: An form is available on the prototype system website.

Thank you very much for your attention