Digitization of disaster prevention Printed Matters and Video information and construction of the search engine which can search these on the Internet website at high speed

Abstract

防災研究所が設立されて以来、研究成果として膨大な印刷物が蓄積されてきた。本稿では、印刷物の中でも毎年発刊される年報の電子ファイル化と、インターネット上で年報文献を高速検索できるシステム構築について、平成15年度分を報告する。文献の電子ファイル化作業は、多大な労力と時間を必要とするが、作業効率をあげることで短期間に2万ページの文献を電子ファイル化した。また、ユーザが用途に応じて検索方法を選択できる、より広い利用者層に対応した年報検索サービスを実現させた。

At Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), a large amount of disasterprevention research base Printed Matters has stored since 1951. The aim of assignmentresearch subject of Division of Technical Affairs is that these base materials are widelyexhibited to society, and can be used. In this paper, we show digitization of the DPRIAnnuals that is published every year, and construction of the search engine which cansearch the Printed Matters on the Internet website at high speed in fiscal year 2003.Much workforce and time was needed for the digitization work. We reduced adocument and picture size of the Annuals to the minimum, which were comprehensible.In addition, we devised so that the work efficiency was enhanced. As a result, about20, 000 pages of the DPRI Annuals (12 years) were exhibited to the public on Internetwebsite in a short period. The three search engine services, which users can be selected, has been available on the Internet website in May 2003. Anyone enabled the aboveingenuity to browse the Annual documents easily, and the search engine that canrespond to a large user layer was realized.