A Study of Construction of the Digital Image Library of Asian Classics

该项目在以下两个领域实现了亚洲经典数字图书馆。1)中国经典数字图书馆包含约500部重要中国经典的约15万张照片图像，这些照片图像是从我们图书馆的约8万个标题中选出的。选择是基于它们的价值和稀有性，它们在图书馆的可用性，它们的预期需求和其他一些考虑。到目前为止，还没有像我们这样规模完全成熟的全文图像数据库向公众开放。该数据库与已建成的中国古籍书目数据库相配套。这两个数据库在一起工作时必须显示出更大的有用性和价值。本课题是在国际化背景下，对中国古籍综合数据库建设的初步探索。在准备阶段，我们提出了典籍数字图书馆的标准格式，目的是使其具有普遍的适应性和可能的功能， 关于我们 未来发展。在此过程中，我们与台湾国家图书馆和中国国家图书馆的负责人讨论了国际合作的可能性。2）西亚和南亚典籍数字图书馆包含不同类型的文献。一个是整个Daiber Collection的完整图像数据，即我们研究所拥有的伊斯兰研究的阿拉伯语手稿集。它们与两卷目录的全部数据相联系，可以用罗马或阿拉伯文字检索。此外，我们的数字图书馆包含埃及议会议事录，“阿里穆巴拉克的新埃及地形，和奥斯曼土耳其官方公报都在阿拉伯语脚本。它们以数据库的形式建立，可以使用不同类型的文本进行有效的检索。我们还建立了一个数据库的梵文手稿收藏在东京大学的主图书馆。上面提到的所有文件都很少见，很难找到。即使是最偏远地区的人现在也可以通过互联网咨询他们。我们的数字图书馆项目必须有助于全球学术界的研究进步。少

The project actualized the Digital Library of Asian Classics in the following two fields. 1) The Digital Library of Chinese Classics contains about 150 thousand photo images of some 500 important Chinese classics, which are selected from approximately 80 thousand titles housed in our library. The selection was based on their value and rarity, their availability in libraries, their expected demand and some other considerations. No full text image databases in such a fully fledged scale as ours were open to the public until now. The database coordinates with our Chinese classics catalogue database that has already been completed. The two databases must show more usefulness and value in worked together. Our project is to be a pilot study of the future construction of comprehensive databases of Chinese classics in the international setting. In the preparation stage, we proposed the standard format of the Digital Library of Classics for the purpose of its general adaptability and possible f … More uture development. In the course of the project we discussed with officers in charge of Taiwan National Library and of the National Library of China for possibility of international cooperation.2) The Digital Library of West and South Asian Classics contains different kinds of documents. One is the full image data of the entire Daiber Collection, that is, Arabic manuscript collection of Islamic studies owned by our Institute. They are linked with its full data of its two volume catalogues, which can be retrieved either in Roman or in Arabic script. Further, our Digital Library contains Proceedings of Egyptian Parliament, 'Ali Mubarak's New Egyptian Topography, and Ottoman Turkish Official Gazette all in Arabic script. They are built in such form of databases that may have effective retrieval means for using the different kinds of text. We also have constructed a database of the Collection of Sanskrit manuscripts housed in the Main Library of the University of Tokyo. All the documents mentioned above are rare and difficult to find. Even those in the remotest area can now consult them through internet. Our Digital Library project must contribute to advancement of researches in the global academic community. Less