人文社会科学のためのデータベースに関する研究(<特集>総合政策学)
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The number of documents and bibliographies for humanities and social sciences available on the Internet has increased in recent times. Further, the importance of the Internet in research activities is also much greater than in the past. With these two facts in mind, this paper looks at case studies concerning the establishment and making available to the public of databases used to support humanities and social sciences research on North East Asia. To construct a database, legacy documents about North East Asia have to initially be digitized. The problem is that as there is such a large number of Chinese characters, there are often not enough of the necessary coded characters to represent the text data contained in the legacy documents. However, the commercial software "e kanji" provides a Chinese character font set of about 96, 000 Chinese characters, which is sufficient. This paper uses two databases for North East Asia area studies as examples: "A Database of Documents and Bibliographies for Social Sciences in Northeast Asia (NEARDB)" and "A Catalog Database of the Shiro Hattori Collection (Hattori Collection)." The NEARDB is a multilingual database which can be used by any user with Internet access. The Hattori Collection has catalog images and bookshelf images. A user can browse these images as if they were reading the original catalog. Databases on the Internet can only be browsed. Also, data relationships between databases are not clear since databases are independent. Therefore, it is difficult for users to browse and collect information efficiently using databases. To solve this problem, this paper illustrates an electronic scrapbook system which allows users to collect and annotate digital documents. By sharing electronic scrapbook data, users can not only collect information efficiently but also can conduct joint research more efficiently too. Finally, to support more efficient research activities on the Internet, this paper mentions a database construction support system and a geographical information system used to analyze data on social sciences.