Cooperation with other institutions
The National Diet Library (NDL) promotes cooperation with many domestic and foreign libraries and other types of cultural institutions, aiming at effective information services and long-term preservation of digital resources. The major activities are as follows:
Cooperation with domestic institutions
NDL Search
NDL Search is a search service designed to be an access point from which you can use the wealth of knowledge from public libraries, archives, museums, institutes of academic research and the NDL. The list of search targets is available on the NDL Search website (Japanese only).
Digital Information Resources Roundtable
The Digital Information Resources Roundtable is designed to promote cooperation between museums, libraries and archives to address common challenges related to digital information resources. For details, please refer to "Digital Information Resources Roundtable."(link to Web Archiving Project (WARP)).
Memorandum of the operation of the Japan Link Center (JaLC) Project
In May 2012, the National Diet Library (NDL) concluded the "Memorandum of the operation of the Japan Link Center (JaLC) Project" with the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the National Institute of Informatics (NII). This will enhance the convenience of the domestic and international information services and promote international distribution of Japanese academic contents by popularizing DOI in Japan. For details about DOI, please refer to "Assignment of a DOI name to an object by NDL".
Research on the operation of digital archives in cultural and academic institutions
In FY2009, the NDL conducted research on the operation of digital archives in domestic public libraries, university and college libraries, archives, museums, etc. The research results are available on the Current Awareness Portal website (Japanese only).
International Cooperation
World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (link to LC website) is a digital library project initiated by the Library of Congress and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), featuring digital contents contributed by many institutions all over the world. The NDL provides images of rare books and other materials from its holdings.
Please refer to “World Digital Library (link to Web Archiving Project (WARP)),” for more detailed information including the list of contents contributed by the NDL.
International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC)
The International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) was established in 2003, mainly consisting of national libraries. It aims at the technical development of web archiving by collaboration of national libraries and other related institutions.
The NDL joined the IIPC in 2008 to cope with challenges related to harvesting, preserving and providing websites based on the internationally cooperative framework. The NDL participates in the Access Working Group and actively works on the multilingual support in NutchWAX (search engine).
Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO)
The Conference of Directors of National Libraries in Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO) promotes exchange of information and mutual cooperation among member libraries. The NDL is responsible for the CDNLAO website and the CDNLAO Newsletter.
At the 2008 meeting held in Japan, four areas to be addressed by collaboration of member libraries were selected. The NDL is playing a leading role in the area of web archiving.
IFLA PAC
IFLA PAC (Preservation and Conservation) is one of the core activities of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). It deals with the preservation of digital information resources as well as paper materials such as books and magazines. The NDL has been taking a major role as the Regional Centre for Asia since 1989. Please refer to “IFLA PAC Regional Centre for Asia” for details.
Lectures and international symposiums on digital library services
The NDL holds lecture meetings and international symposiums on digital library services, inviting domestic and foreign leading figures as speakers.
Please refer to “Events” for details of each event including application method.