Committee on Library Technology       

CJK in Email

programs allow CJK display and input (with support of CJK software):

Eudora Pro  
(Can be used with PC Windows and Mac. Using Twinbridge/CJK partner, UnionWay/AsianSuite, and other CJK software for CJK display and input. Free download)

MS Outlook  
(Works with Windows 2000 CJK system, or MS Global IME for CJK display and input. Free download)

Japanese E-mail Software  
(Introductions and links to the web sites of various E-mail software supporting Japanese)

CJK Telnet

AnzioWin  
(Unicode-enabled telnet software from Rasmussen Software, Inc. with CCCII to Unicode mapping that allows display of North American CJK library reocrds in telnet sessions.  This telnet software has been tested with Innovative Interfaces, Inc. CJK catalogs, and works well.  Works for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.)

CJK Software Web Sites

MS Windows 2000 Professional  
(Built on NT technology, it is an Internet-enabled and multilingual (including CJK) desktop operation system with Unicode® version 2.1 as its base character encoding.)

AsiaZest.com/Richwin, PenPower  
(Software for displaying and inputting CJK on Internet, e-mail, CJK word processing, CJK publishing, and Digitizing CJK materials with OCR technology, with free try download. Operation System: Window 95,98, NT.)

Japanese Software Solutions  
(Various software for displaying and imputing Japanese on Internet, e-mail, web page design, word processing. Operation System: All Window Products.)

NJStar  
(Software for displaying and inputting CJK on Internet, e-mail, and CJK word processing, with free try download. Operation System: All Window Products.)

MS/Global IME  
(Software for displaying and inputting CJK on Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook. Download the software with language package for both displaying and inputting CJK . Free download. Operation System: Window 95,98, NT.)

TwinBridge/CJK Partners  
(Software for displaying and inputting CJK on Internet , e-mail, and CJK word processing, with free try download. Operation System: Window 95, 98, Compatible with MS Office 97/2000.)

Unionway/AsianSuite  
(Software for displaying and inputting CJK on Internet, e-mail, and CJK word processing. Operation System: All Window Products.)

Viewing and Inputting Japanese Text in Windows
(General advice on setting up Windows computers for Japanese Input and display.)

Global IME Support in Netscape Communicator 4.72 
(Advice from Netscape about how to set up MS Global IME to use with Netscape.)

  General Information Concerning Library Technology in CJK

UniHan IT Development Co. (its director Mr. Zhoucai Zhang gave a presentation "Unicode/CJK Implementation and its Uses in the Library" during the CEAL Lib. Tech. session in San Diego in 2000. The site offers some general information about application of Lib. Tech. in CJK. It requires Chinese GB encoding to view the Chinese contents.)

  Integrated Library System (ILS) with CJK functions
(The following systems have Web OPAC and support or plan to support CJK functions with Unicode. *Means Unicode Web OPAC ready)

DRA/Taos
Its Users and Their Web OPAC Sites:
-- U. of Alberta
-- Duke University
-- U. of Toronto

Endeavor/Voyager
Its Users and Their Web OPAC Sites:
-- Library of Congress
-- U. of Pittsburgh
-- U. of Wisconsin

EpixTech/Horizon,Dynix
Its Users and Their Web OPAC Sites:
-- U. of Chicago
*-- Zhejiang University Library (China) Unicode GB web OPAC ready. To view and search Chinese, turn encoding to: Chinese simplified GB2312)

ExLibris/Aleph
Its Users and Their Web OPAC Sites:
-- U. of Iowa
-- McGill University

III/Millennium/Innovative/III
Its Users and Their Web OPAC Sites:
*-- U. of Washington Law Library (Unicode Web OPAC ready. To view CJK, turn encoding to : Unicode UTF8)
*-- Waseda University Library (Japan) (Japanese Web OPAC ready. To view and search Japanese, turn encoding to: Japanese Shift-JIS)

III CJK Listserv: iiicjk@u.washington.edu
To subscribe: send email message "subscribe IIICJK." to listproc@u.washington.edu

Sirsi/Unicorn
Its Users and Their Web OPAC Sites:
-- Brigham Young University Library
*-- Peking University Library (China) Chinese Web OPAC ready. To view and search Chinese, turn encoding to: Chinese simplified GB2312)

Internet Connection Service with CJK Support

CompuServe.com (Free download Chinese fonts for viewing Chinese)

  Multilingual Dictionaries in IT and Computer Science

Search and find the latest multilingual definitions of the IT and computer science terms:

English:
whatis.com
webopedia.com

Bilingual:
English/Chinese & Chinese/English
English/Japanese & Japanese/English
English/Korean & Korean/English

Multilingual:
onelook.com

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Technology

CJK software including OCR
OCR Software supporting CJK (from Asiazest.com)
Evaluating Japanese and Chinese OCR Performance using HTML

Unicode

EACC-Unicode Review Project (A CEAL project lead by Bob Felsing)

The Unicode Consortium

Z39.50

OCLC Z39.50 FS-L List (subscribe the list to receive information concerning Z39.50 issues)

OCLC CJK Z39.50 Client (A Standalone version that support GB, Big 5, JIIS, and Shift JIS will be released at the UCSD site)

Glossary

ILS : Integrated Library System as library's local automation system.

OCR : Optical Character Recognition Technology, which can help to scan and digitize full texts.

Unicode : Unicode is an entirely new idea in setting up binary codes for text or script characters. Officially called the Unicode Worldwide Character Standard, it is a system for "the interchange, processing, and display of the written texts of the diverse languages of the modern world.

Z39.50 : Z39.50 is a standard communications protocol for the search and retrieval of bibliographic data in online databases. Z39.50 is used on the Internet to search the Online Public Access Catalogues (OPAC) of library holdings. It is also sometimes used to link disparate OPACs into a single "union" OPAC. Z39.50 is an American National Standards Institute/NISO standard.

Questions and Answers

Please send your question to CEAL Lib. Tech. Committee

Q.As a Japanese Studies Librarian, how can I take the advantage of the development of Information Technology to do my work.

A. Please see Rob Britt's presentation :"Working with Japanese and Your Systems People.