Field research on scientific databases and research trend

国家科学信息系统中心（NACSIS）一直在运行一个与互联网连接的网络系统，建立和维护科学数据库，并为大学图书馆建立一个联合目录数据库，目的是改善大学研究人员的信息环境。从1997财政年度起，NACSIS将开始为学术团体期刊提供一种新的服务，即“电子图书馆“，并正在进行技术开发和制度设计，以适应即将到来的先进信息化社会中科学信息传播的新方案。这些系统和数据库的发展和完善应与日本研究人员对海外信息的需求和向海外传递本国信息的要求相一致。这就要求NACSIS不断研究科学信息的状况 ...更多信息 海外国家的相关组织。NACSIS还应满足外国研究人员对日语信息的需求。基于以上几个方面，本项目的策划和实施是为了调查和分析国外的现状。研究项目包括：全文数据库系统、i.e.search引擎、SGML等全文数据库的标准格式、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、科学数据库的动向、科研环境等。参加研究的研究人员访问了大学、学会、出版社、政府机关等海外相关机构，与工作人员就上述内容进行了讨论，并收集了资料。或参加国际会议并交换意见，包括G7 GII会议，日本是促进电子图书馆的领导者。从这项研究中得到的一些发展是一个合作项目，以支持日语在一个基于英语的全文搜索引擎，项目利用NACSIS系统在法国，瑞士和瑞典的大学，和一个联合项目的电子图书馆系统与英国大学。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