Journal of Information Processing and Management
Online ISSN : 1347-1597
Print ISSN : 0021-7298
ISSN-L : 0021-7298
Volume 41, Issue 12
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Article
  • Susumu FUJIMORI
    1999 Volume 41 Issue 12 Pages 979-988
    Published: 1999
    Released on J-STAGE: April 01, 2001
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS
    Library information systems have performed important roles in the development of digital library. This paper reports a library information system in NTT Musashino R&D Center, which has made various approaches to the digital library. The system, characterized by information providing services through an intra-net homepage, has been specially designed so as to be convenient for both of users and librarians. The user-friendly library information system itself is considered to be very effective in promoting the progress of digital library.
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  • Sanzo KOMATSU
    1999 Volume 41 Issue 12 Pages 989-997
    Published: 1999
    Released on J-STAGE: April 01, 2001
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS
    In science and technology much interest has been shown in the evaluation of research performance by citation analysis;however, even the basic use of bibliographic secondary sources is not being well utilized in the arts & humanities in Japan. ISI first published the Arts & Humanities Citation Index in 1978.The coverage is very broad and includes architecture, fine arts, music, film, theater as well as literature, and A & HCI has been popular in English-speaking countries. The items from Japan account for only 0.3% of the total volume but even that amount can be helpful for citation analysis. Major authors, major corporate sources and hot papers are all ready for searching with rank listings. For example, Yasunari Kawabata and Akira Kurosawa have 2 and 12 papers respectively, but the number of citations to their works are 71 and 307 respectively. Furthermore, A & HCI is now available in the Web of Science via the Internet or local mounting.
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Introductory article
  • Yoshiyuki MAEDA, Hiroyuki SATO, Kenshou NAKAGAWA
    1999 Volume 41 Issue 12 Pages 998-1009
    Published: 1999
    Released on J-STAGE: April 01, 2001
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS
    Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) develops Directory Database of Research and Development Activities (ReaD) for facilitating information flow of research and development activities. In this plan, information sending by researcher is very important for making directory database. ReaD is the linkage system of WWW server and directory database, and can offer the four kinds of directory databases, research institutes, researchers, research themes and research resources what can be cross-referenced. ReaD can be accessed easily by the Internet. In this paper, we explain the outline of plan, system, function, directory databases of ReaD.
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Series
  • Examples of image DBs
    Katsuhiro AOYAGI, Hiroshi KAIZUKA
    1999 Volume 41 Issue 12 Pages 1010-1023
    Published: 1999
    Released on J-STAGE: April 01, 2001
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS
    This article describes two examples of image DBs and the image viewer (GuGood-Viewer) that deals efficiently with a bottleneck of image transmission through the Internet. The examples are a picture DB system used in a design company and a drawing DB system used in a design consulting company. Both of them are intranet solutions. The mechanism that GuGood-Viewer is based on is described.
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