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We present our approach for constructing a federated searching system for Japanese humanities digital libraries using automatic metadata mapping. We discuss some achievements in the ongoing research to construct a federated searching system. The goals of this system are (1) to perform metadata mapping automatically for Japanese heterogeneous humanities digital libraries and (2) to let users access multiple humanities digital libraries by using only one query input. The proposed automatic metadata mapping method produced the average mapping precision of 94.9%. We also address the metadata-related challenges facing Japanese humanities databases.
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Project supported by the Grant-in-Aid for the Global COE Program from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, and MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Strategic Formation of Research Infrastructure for Private University, Japan
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Batjargal, B., Kimura, F. & Maeda, A. Providing universal access to Japanese humanities digital libraries: an approach to federated searching system using automatic metadata mapping. J. Zhejiang Univ. - Sci. C 11, 837–843 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.C1001001
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.C1001001