Digital Information Resources Roundtable
In recent years, an increasing number of libraries provide digitized materials via the Internet. To enrich such digital contents and enhance their accessibility, it is important that libraries and related institutions engaged in the same tasks work together.
The National Diet Library (NDL) established the Digital Information Resources Roundtable in FY2009 to strengthen cooperation with museums, libraries and archives (MLA) and address common challenges related to digital information resources.
1. Annual meeting
The roundtable annually holds a meeting inviting experts, and professionals from the museums, libraries and archives communities.
For details of each meeting, please see the page "Annual meeting."
2. Working Group (1): Forum for Promotion of Digital Archives in Public Libraries
The Forum for Promotion of Digital Archives in Public Libraries, launched as a working group of the roundtable, is designed to promote digital archive projects in public libraries across the country and enrich the searchable contents of the NDL Search aiming to broaden the coverage of integrated search for digital resources provided by public libraries.
In FY2010, the NDL conducted a survey targeting domestic public libraries actively conducting digital archiving projects as one of the activities of this working group.
For details of each forum and the survey conducted in FY2010, please see the page "Forum for Promotion of Digital Archives in Public Libraries."
3. Working Group (2): Research on the Construction of Digital Information Resources Overseas
In FY2010, research on the current state of digital collections in major cultural institutions overseas was conducted. For the research results, please see the page "Research on the Construction of Digital Information Resources Overseas."