일본 古典籍 소장기관의 자료 디지털화 현황과 시사점

Abstract

This article introduces the status of digitalization for data available in representative institutions with archival holdings of classic publications in Japan and contemplate on indications to be gained thereof. In details, the subjects are National Diet Library, National Archives of Japan, National Institute of Japanese Literature, and Waseda University Library and the cases of data digitalization carried out by each institution are accessed and the detailed facilitation method of the digital data that they have has been provided. The change that had the most attention in the digital information environment of Japan is the launching of ‘Digital Collection of the National Diet Library’ (hereinafter, ‘digi-core"). ‘digi-core’ means the service to search and access the digital data collected and kept in the National Diet Library. For the digitalization method, there are two core points: main text information and index information. The main text of data is digitalized in image data while the index information is prepared in the text data to enhance the efficiency of search for its characteristics. In ‘digi-core’, approximately 100,000 pieces of ‘Classic Publication Data (precious document and etc)’ serviced, and 80,000 pieces of them are provided in full text as the image data on the internet. From ‘publication’, there are a significant number of data that has the synergy effect with the ‘Classic Publication Data (precious document and etc)’ that it would be considered to render a great help in studying on the Classic Publication. Under this study, basic important matters in the ‘digi-core’ data search are summarized, and further, it introduces the detailed method to facilitate ‘digi-core’ in relation to the ancient history of Japan. Thereafter, it also mentions on facilitating the Collection of Liberal Art Links on Research Navi in National Diet Library’ that is managed separately from ‘digi-core’. The ‘Digital archive’ of the National Archives of Japan and the ‘DB of Pre-modern Japanese Works’ of the National Institute of Japanese Literature are very useful for having the digital images of the Classic Publication (books prior to the Edo Era) that are held by various institutions at home and abroad along with the bibliography accumulated for a long-time by both institutions. The ‘DB on Japanese and Chinese classics’ of Waseda University Library has been structured to provide access to the Classic Publication held by this Library along with the bibliography information, pertinent research data, as well as the full-tect image database to the general public. It has distinct feature in providing the service to have the access to the data for each theme on the web. In reference to the status of structuring the digital data of Japan as above. the Korean academic circle is at the phase of seriously considering to structure the ‘Joint Meta-Data’. It may be a way to prepare the ‘Collection of Lists and Explanatory of Digital Data’ with the ‘Collection of Liberal Art Links in National Diet Library’ as its model.