NAIST Digital Library

NAIST Digital Library provides practical library services for faculties, students and staffs of Nara Institute of Science and Technology. Operation of this system is started in April 1996 [1]. The system mainly consists of the database system including electronic books, journals, magazines, NAIST technical reports, etc., the digital video library system, the browser system, the information retrieval system. Our system allows users to browse electronic books, journals, transactions, and magazines through networks. In addition, the video browser is also provided. Fig. 1 shows the overview of our current system. File servers have a capacity of storing library data of totally 5TB. A hierarchical storage works as UNIX file systems. Furthermore, files on the servers will migrate to the suitable storage according to frequency of access to them. The library search engine enables users to easily obtain what they need in the library database. This search engine works as WWW server. Fig. 2 shows an example what you can actually get from NAIST Digital Library. The Data Input System generates data for digital library with scanners, OCR softwares, CD-ROM drives, and MPEG-2 encoders. A current system provides following services. - search function includes bibliographical information search and whole text search.