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PROJECT NAME:

Electronic Library

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND CURRENT LOCATION:

Kansai region , centering in Kansai Science City , Japan.

PROJECT COORDINATOR:

Mr. Takeo Matsumoto, Managing Director
Association of Broadband-ISDN Business chance and Culture Creation (BBCC) (Project promotion manager : Mr. Hiroo Wada)
MAILING ADDRESS: Keihanna Plaza, 1-7, Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Kyoto, Japan
PHONE/FAX: +81-774-95-5150 / +81-774-95-5174

BRIEF OVERALL PROJECT SUMMARY:

This project is one of BBCC's B-ISDN application experiment projects and is conducted in collaboration with Nara Research Center of Telecommunication Advancement Organization. In this project, the latest electronic library system with distributed multimedia databases are experimented in terms of multimedia information retrieval and display over B-ISDN.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES:

1) To explore possibilities and requirements for electronic library systems of the future utilizing the latest technologies of computers and related software.
2) To evaluate electronic library systems by the end users including librarians, researchers and the public in general.

EXPECTED/ACTUAL RESULTS:

To identify the future image of electronic library which enables anyone to locate and retrieve required information through B-ISDN from their homes as well as academic and business sites.

TARGET GROUPS:

PARTNERS/ACTORS IN THE PROJECT:

Fujitsu Ltd.; NTT
(Advisory participation: Kyoto University)

USE OF INFORMATION/TELEMATIC TECHNOLOGIES:

1) Variety of advanced information retrieval technologies.
2) Multimedia information display technologies including high resolution images
3) High-speed data transfer technologies
4) User support functions such as machine translation, synthesized voice reading, etc..

BENEFITS TO THE INFORMATION SOCIETY:

This project offers an image and example of electronic libraries in the future.

EXPECTED COST:

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