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Proc. Int’l. Conf. on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2001 Multilingual Access to Dublin Core Metadata of ULIS Library Danyang Wen, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Shigeo Sugimoto, and Koichi Tabata University of Library and Information Science 1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8550, Japan {wdy, saka, sugimoto, tabata}@ulis.ac.jp Abstract Overseas users wanting to use a Japanese database usually face many problems. The first With the recent Internet expansion, persons all problem is often how to display and input over the world can access more and more Japanese words. With the spread of Unicode, this document databases. As Unicode has become problem has been solved to some extent. However, more popular, the environment for multilingual in actual cases, overseas users often cannot read retrieval has been improved to some extent. Japanese on their display because the Japanese However, there are still numerous problems to be character font is not installed. Often the overseas solved, such as the multilingual input and display. user doesnt know how to input Japanese from the This paper proposes a system for retrieving ULIS keyboard. Furthermore, the users generally dont Japanese metadata. The system provides know Japanese well and feel it is difficult to find convenience for the overseas users for