Research for the Multi-Media databases of the Japanese History and their On-Line Access on the WWW server.

本课题的研究目标和主要工作如下：1.将大型机上积累的SHIPS数据库，如“日本旧文献联机目录”、“日本历史和明治维新年表数据库”、“大日本四良索引数据库”等，转换到Unix工作站上，并从WWW服务器上提供。扫描800卷Eishabon的缩微胶片（旧文件的透明副本）并将530，000个图像文件安装到CD-ROM服务器中，并在SHIPS数据库中制作超链接代码，以便通过WWW浏览器查看这些图像文件。浏览6,000页的“外国与日本有关的历史文献”卷。14.4.将PHOTO-CD转换成jpeg格式的图像文件，制作成历史研究所收藏的《池入文献》的超文本页面。利用HTML改进全文数据库中的文本输入模块，改革年表数据库中的数据输入批量系统，使之能够输入日期和位置数据.将链接字段添加到若干数据库中，通过这些数据库显示研究所出版物的图像。

The research aimed and accomplished the projects as following ;1. to convert the SHIPS-databases accumulated on the mainframe, such as "Japanese Old Documents On-line Catalogue", "Chronological Database for the Japanese History and the Meiji Restoration", "Dai Nippon Shiryo Index Database", etc. to the Unix work station and to make them available from WWW server.2. to scan the 800 reels of microfilms of Eishabon (the transparent copies of the old documents) and install the 530,000 image files into the CD-ROM server and to make the hyperlink code in the SHIPS-databases in order to view these image files with WWW browser.3. to scan the 6,000 pages of "Historical Documents Relating to JAPAN in Foreign Countries" vols. 14.4. to construct the hypertext pages of "the Documents of IKIRI", held in the Historiographical Institute, with the jpeg image files converted from PHOTO-CD.5. to improve the text input module in the full text database by using the HTML and reform the data entry batch system in the Chronological Database to be able to enter the date and location data.6. to add the linkage fields into the several databases, through which the images of the Institute's Publications are to be displayed.