Resource Sharing

The Committee on Resource Sharing Projects at NIHU is engaged in research and development on analysis systems and databases, as well as maintenance of numerous databases. Bringing together more than 100 databases created by the institutes under the NIHU umbrella, the committee developed the Integrated Retrieval System (nihu INT) that enables one-touch cross-sectional search of databases containing information of high value for research in the humanities. The committee also developed an application called “nihuONE” that provides public access to small-scale databases. NIHU is currently engaged in the development of the “GT-Map/GT-Time System,” a spatiotemporal search and analysis system that incorporates the parameters of time (year, period, etc.) and space (geographical location, place names, etc.). The committee promotes the building of resource-sharing environments linked to universities and research institutes throughout Japan. In 2009, NIHU established a Study Group on Humanities Information Resource Sharing. In July 2010, a two-way unified search system was activated that links the National Diet Library Digital Archives Portal, PORTA, with NIHU’s Integrated Retrieval System (nihu INT).