The Eco Collection Database
symbiosis with nature

Hidehiro GAMOH*
Hiroshi ITSUMURA**
Masanori AKIYAMA***Nagoya University Library**Nagoya University Library Studies
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Outline
1. Background : Road to Eco Collection Database
2. Eco Collection Databasestructures, purpose
method (Metadata, High resolution graphics,Integrated Kanji Index)
3. Takagi Family Documents
4. Ito Keisuke Collection
5. Nature Disasters, Typhoon and Earthquakes
6. Effect
7. Future
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1. Background : Road to Eco Collection Database (1)1990s
Items which alibrary user
expects indigital library
Enhance one's
educational andresearch functions

Items whicha library wasgoing tocomputerize
Save by digitization.
f.e. Rare book, Bulletin…

cause of the failureroughly speaking …

Foundation for digital library system
×Standardized Metadata
×Linkage with other (DB, development sectors…)
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1. Background : Road to Eco Collection Database(2)
Nagoya University Library late 90s
Digitize bulletin
1997 -

Ito Keisuke Collection
1998 -

Retrospective
conversion

Foundation for digital library system
×Standardized Metadata
×Linkage with other (DB, development sectors…)
But … Eco Collection Database in “Nagoya University Memory”
Nagoya University Memory≒Institutional Repository
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1. Background : Road to Eco Collection Database (3)Nagoya University Library late 90s

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2. Eco Collection Database : structures (1)Takagi Family
Documents
Ito Keisuke
Collection
Nature Disasters,
Typhoon andEarthquakes
keywordsearches62. Eco Collection Database : structures (2)About EcoCollection
Database

Link to other relatedorganizations inTokai area

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2. Eco Collection Database : purpose
Information resources in connection with education and research
activitiesContemporary academic value

Neo-Natural River Reconstruction Method
Reconsideration of “the related history of nature and human being”
Environmental science, Historical science, Historical geography,Animals and plants science
Education

Assist in lifelong learning
Rich Biodiversity
Interest in natural science

Make better societies which are environment-friendly
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2. Eco Collection Database : method
Metadata
Conform to Dublin Core

Integrated Kanji (JapaneseKanji character) Index
High resolution
graphics
斉? 斎? 齊?
齋?

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3. Takagi Family Documents : profile
Takagi Family Documents are the largest scale systematic
materials about peoples, rivers and flood control in Edo period,
from 17th century to 19th century.
These documents tell us the histories
between nature and human beings realistically.
The documents consist of over 100,000
documents. The Takagi Family performed theKiso 3 rivers management during Edo period.

Takagi’s House(west)

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3. Takagi Family Documents : structures

Extendedsearch option
Profile,Browse by river basin,
High resolution graphics,
Related information,
Recommended
documents

Browse bycategory11FamilyYearRegionbyby

Categ
orybybyby

Personby

Keyw
ord

3. Takagi Family Documents : Extended search option (1)

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Brow
seby

Profi

leriverbasin

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3. Takagi Family Documents : For first-timers

List of High resolution graphics

Related information≒Pathfinder
Learning materials, …
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3. Takagi Family Documents : Google Map

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3. Takagi Family Documents : Google EarthGrandCanyonSanD

iego

Fly to an address
Zooming, tilting and rotating
Comprehensive search results

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ieDSanHigh-speed viewer todisplay high-resolution
images.
It separates the data
into fine, mesh-likestructures and displays
only necessary parts,
maintaining highresolution images
without an added loadon the network.

go

3. Takagi Family Documents : High resolution graphics

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3. Takagi Family Documents : Record(1)

Pictorial map(1755)

Metadata

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3. Takagi Family Documents : Record(2)

Kiso 3 rivers

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3. Takagi Family Documents : Record(3)

Diary January 9th 1754

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3. Takagi Family Documents : Record(4)

Oogure river
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3. Takagi Family Documents : Record
(5)
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4
5

1～5
Ibi river
Digital joint (5 pictorial maps)
767.1×60.0cm

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3. Takagi Family Documents : Record(6)

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4. Ito Keisuke Collection : profile
This collection is the manuscripts about animals and plants
collected by ITO Keisuke(1803-1901) who was the pioneer ofmodern botany in Japan.
From an early age, he learned Confucianism and medicine fromhis father. He also liked to study botany. At the age of 18, hebecame a medical practitioner.
At the age of 19, he went to Kyoto to study
European sciences, and when he was 25 years
old, he went to Nagasaki to study botanyunder Siebold. This became the turning
point in his academic career.
lily of the valley
Convallaria keiskei Miq.

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4. Ito Keisuke Collection : structures
Extendedsearch option

Browse bydocument

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ordbyReg
ionYearbyAuthorityby

byTreediagrambyby

Person4. Ito Keisuke Collection : Extended search option (1)Common user interface with Takagi Family Documents

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Brow
seby

document

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4. Ito Keisuke Collection : For first-timers
Mascot character

Recommended documents
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4. Ito Keisuke Collection : Record (1)Metadata
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4. Ito Keisuke Collection : Record (3)31

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4. Ito Keisuke Collection : Record (4)32

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4. Ito Keisuke Collection : Record (5)33

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4. Ito Keisuke Collection : Record (6)34

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5. Nature Disasters, Typhoon and Earthquakes
in Nagoya University
Isewan Typhoon (1959)
Tounankai Earthquake (1944)
Mikawa Earthquake (1945) …
Natural history figure
digitize

Houreki river improvement(1754-55)
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6. Effect (1)Contemporary academic value

Royal Botanic Gardens(England)

Large leavesof Petasites

Education
Pathfinder

Hyperlink
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6. Effect (2)Make better societies which are environment-friendly
Digital exhibition

Collaboration

Nagoya Higashiyama
Botanical Gardens

MLIT
Kisogawa Library

Nagoya City Museum
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7. Future (1)GIS (Geographic Information System)
Computerized system that relates and displays data collected froma geographic entity in the form of a map. [Britannica Online]
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Rubber 2
sheeting

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7. Future (2)34Landsat

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7. Future (3)Digital Map
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13 historicalmaps of Tokyo,from 1680 to1910 from theEast Asian
Library, UCBerkeley.

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Top: Tokyo, 1680
Bottom: Tokyo
Landsat Mosaic,
1987-95

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7. Future (4)(1) Standardization of technical terms(2) Adoption of ISAD(G) (GeneralInternational Standard Archival
Description)(3) Practical use of a feedback system(4) Selection of resources(5) View on symbiosis with nature
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