2016/05/19　Harvard Yenching Library Special Morning Session: Digital Collaboration

Harvard Yenching Library Special Morning Session: Digital Collaboration

May 19th, 2016 Harvard-Yenching Library


Time & Date: 10:30 -11:30 am, May 19, 2016

Location: Common Room (2 Divinity Avenue, Yenching Library)


Professor Shōichirō Hara, Director of the Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

Information Platform for Digital scholarship


“The Center (CIAS) has developed the information infrastructure (IIS) to support comprehensive information processing for area studies. The IIS is composed of databases, the Resource Sharing System (RSS), spatiotemporal processing tools and several dictionaries. One of the advantages of the IIS databases is their spatiotemporal functions. If a database has spatiotemporal fields/elements, the database system can be retrieved by a map interface and a time-line interface. This is a solution to integrate heterogeneous databases by spatiotemporal attributes. The RSS is the core of the IIS and is designed to integrate databases on the Internet to provide users with a uniform interface to retrieve databases seamlessly by one operation. The RSS is an innovated-system to link heterogeneous databases of different institutes and realize so called MLA (Museum, Library and Archives) cooperation.”

Professor Hara’s project Resource Sharing Database for Area Studies is found here. http://app.cias.kyoto-u.ac.jp/GlobalFinder-lg/cgi/Start.exe?LANG=eng

Discussion: Professors Kishi Toshihiko, Kameda Akihiro (Kyoto University), Professor Paul Barclay, Eric Luhrs (Lafayette College), Kuniko Yamada McVey (Harvard-Yenching Library)