New Innovative Access to Educational and Cultural Multimedia Contents Yuka Egusa Educational Resources Research Center, National Institute for Educational Policy Research Takashi Nagatsuka Tsurumi University, Dept. of Library, Archival and Information Studies IFLA 2006 Seoul 21 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 Metadata Physical world Library 1.Multimedia and full-text materials 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 education Magazines and journals collection Old textbooks collection Foreign textbooks collection Modern textbooks collection 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 records Next page Return to search interface Result Figure 3.

Bibliographic record page Publication location Publication year Element name Value Return 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(17 th -19 th 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 catalog for books Bibliography record Pre-War Textbooks A report is stored in a folder Bibliography record 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-quality and 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