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典籍数字图书馆。1)《中华典籍数字图书馆》收录了近500部重要典籍的15万幅图片，这些图片是从馆藏的近8万种图书中挑选出来的。选择的依据是它们的价值和稀缺性、它们在图书馆的可获得性、它们的预期需求以及其他一些考虑因素。到目前为止，还没有一个像我们这样成熟的全文图像数据库向公众开放。该数据库与我们已经建成的中国古籍目录库相协调。这两个数据库必须在合作中显示出更多的用处和价值。我们的项目是对未来国际范围内的中国典籍综合数据库建设的试点研究。在准备阶段，我们提出了典籍数字图书馆的标准格式，以使其具有普遍的适应性和可能的…更多的未来发展。在项目过程中，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)西亚和南亚经典数字图书馆包含不同类型的文献。一是整个戴伯尔藏书的完整影像资料，也就是我们研究所拥有的伊斯兰研究阿拉伯手稿资料。它们与它的两卷目录的完整数据相联系，这些目录可以用罗马或阿拉伯文字检索。此外，我们的数字图书馆收录了阿拉伯文字的《埃及议会议事录》、《阿里·穆巴拉克的新埃及地形图》和《奥斯曼土耳其官方公报》。它们的数据库形式可以为使用不同种类的文本提供有效的检索手段。我们还建立了东京大学主图书馆收藏的梵文手稿数据库。上述所有文件都是罕见的，很难找到。即使是那些最偏远的地区的人现在也可以通过互联网查阅它们。我们的数字图书馆项目必须为全球学术界的研究进步做出贡献。更少

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