Field research on scientific databases and research trend

美国国家科学信息系统中心(NACSIS)一直在运营一个联网的网络系统，建设和服务科学数据库，并为大学图书馆建设联合目录数据库，目的是为大学研究人员创造一个良好的信息环境。NACSIS将从1997财年起开始为学会期刊提供新的服务--“电子图书馆”，并正在进行技术开发和制度设计，以适应即将到来的高度信息化社会的科学信息传播新方案。随着科研国际化的发展，这些系统和数据库的开发和加强应根据日本研究人员对海外信息的需求和本国信息向海外传递的需要进行规划。这就要求我们对科学信息…的情况进行持续的研究更多海外国家的相关组织。NACSIS还应与外国研究人员对日语信息的需求相对应。有了以上几个方面，本项目的策划和实施是为了调查和分析目前的海外形势。研究项目包括全文数据库系统，即搜索引擎，全文数据库的标准格式，如SGML，电子图书馆系统，多媒体数据库系统，海外对日语信息的需求，科学数据库的发展趋势和科学研究的环境。参与研究的人员走访了海外相关组织，如大学、学术团体、出版商和政府机构，就上述问题与工作人员进行了讨论并收集了材料，或参加了国际会议和交流意见，包括日本在推动电子图书馆方面处于领先地位的G7 GII会议。这项研究得出的一些进展包括在以英语为基础的全文搜索引擎中支持日语的合作项目、在法国、瑞士和瑞典的大学使用NACSIS系统的项目，以及与英国一所大学联合开展的电子图书馆系统项目。较少

National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS) has been operating a network system with the internet connection, constructing and servicing scientific databases and constructing a union catalog database for university libraries, with the aim of promoting information environment for university researchers. From FY1997, NACSIS is to begin a new service, "Electronic Library, " for academic society journals, and is conducting the technological development together with the institutional design suitable for a new scheme of scientific information dissemination in the coming advanced informatized society.As internationalization of scientific research is evolving, the development and enhancement of these systems and databases should be planed in correspondence with the demand for overseas information by Japanese researchers and the requirement for overseas transmisson of their own information. This would require NACSIS the continuous studies on the situation of scientific information … More related organizations of overseas countries. NACSIS should also correspond to the demand for Japanese information by foreign researchers. With the above aspects, this project was planed and conducted to survey and analyze the current overseas situation. The study items include full text database systems, i.e.search engines, standard format for full text databases, e.g.SGML,electronic library systems, multimedia database systems, demand for Japanese information in overseas countries, trend of scientific databases and environment for scientific research.The participating researchers visited relevant overseas organizations such as universities, academic societies, publishers and governmental agencies, discussed with the staffs on the above and gathered materials, or attended international conferences and exchanged opinion, including G7 GII meetings where Japan was a leader for the promotion of electronic libraries. Some of the developments derived from the study are a collaborative project for supporting Japanese language in an English based full text search engine, projects of utilizing NACSIS system at universities in France, Swiss and Sweden, and a joint project of electronic library systems with a UK university. Less