On the Resource Sharing Project for the Humanity Sciences

Abstract

　We are now in feasibility studies on the project for information resource sharing among many National Research Institutes on the humanity sciences in Japan. The project is collaboration with National Institute of Japanese Literature, National Museum of Ethnology, National Museum of Japanese History, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, The Historiographical Institute of University of Tokyo, Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Kyoto University, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, and so on. It has an objective of developing system and technologies on seamless access to the individual databases held in these Institutes.
　We use the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set for metadata system and the Z39.50 protocol for information retrieval system and the HTML for user interface.