JP2001188729A - Recording information collection and data base system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To manage the data of each developer of a home page as a data base in a batch by a server by using an Internet environment. SOLUTION: This data base system is constituted of a data managing server 4 connected with Internet 2 and plural user terminal equipment 1, and a prescribed client application is executed in the user terminal equipment so that record information obtained by the user himself or herself can be inputted with a prescribed format, and stored in the individual data base of the user, and that the record information can be transmitted through the Internet to the data managing server, and integrally stored. The data managing server prepares and distributes Web contents from the record information on the plural users integrally stored in the data base corresponding to a request from each user terminal equipment.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a recorded information collection / database system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art For example, in diving, which is one of the marine leisure activities, diving enthusiasts write and store in a notebook or the like the so-called log of the marine situation and the like at the time of diving as their activity, and store the information. The recorded information data is provided for later reference. Data recorded as a log includes, for example, date, temperature, weather, wave condition, flow condition, diving No. (Time), points, water temperature,
Transparency, transparency, terrain, weight, suit, dive start time, dive end time, tank type, capacity, tank pressure,
There are diving styles (beach, boat), guides, buddies, fish, wreck and other things seen during diving, comments, etc. In addition, there are images taken during diving. In this way, logs that were previously stored in notebooks are
2. Description of the Related Art With the recent spread of personal computers, the number of personal computers has been increasing.

[0003] As described above, in addition to the above-mentioned diving, fields such as "fishing", "bird watching", and "astronomical observation" include data collected by enthusiasts in their own activities and used as reference data later. , Mountain climbing and trekking, golf, surfing (including bodyboarding), geological and ore observation (collection), plant observation (collection), etc. , "Train", "gourmet" and so on.

[0004] On the other hand, with the recent spread of the Internet, homepages in each of the above fields have been established, and recorded information has been collected on such homepages. For example, in the field of diving above, diving instruction groups and diving shops have opened homepages, and as one of the contents,
A log input page is provided to collect the logs of diving enthusiasts who have accessed the homepage via the Internet, store the database in the database server of the homepage creator, and make it a database so that many people can use it.

[0005]

The conventional system described above has the following problems. In a system in which enthusiasts and the like save personally owned record information data in a computer system or the like, it is impossible to share record information with many other enthusiasts, and record information of individual enthusiasts is integrated Cannot be used

[0006] Further, in a system in which an Internet environment is used to accumulate in a database server of a homepage establisher, enthusiasts and the like cannot accumulate their own record information. Must duplicate the entry on the homepage and the entry on his own computer system. An object of the present invention is to solve the above problems.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention comprises a data management server connected to the Internet and terminal devices of a large number of users.
By executing a predetermined client application on the user's terminal device, self-acquired record information can be input in a predetermined format and stored in the user's individual database, and transmitted to the data management server via the Internet for integration. The data management server can create and distribute Web content from the record information of many users integrated and stored in the database in response to each user's request from the terminal device. We propose a record information collection / database system configured as follows.

[0008] In the present invention, the data management server comprises:
At least, the present invention proposes a configuration in which authentication is required for access related to input of record information.

In the present invention, the client application may include a command for automatically transmitting the recording information to a predetermined data management server via the Internet when the input recording information is stored in the terminal device. Suggest.

[0010] In the above-mentioned present invention, the terminal device comprises:
It can be configured by a general-purpose computer system, or can be configured as a dedicated computer system. Furthermore, these computer systems may be of a portable type in addition to a stationary type.

[0011] According to the present invention, the enthusiast or the like starts a predetermined client application in his / her own computer system, inputs recording information of self-acquisition in a predetermined format, and adds the information to his / her database. The data can be stored in the data management server via the Internet.

In this way, the data management server integrally stores a large number of recorded information from a large number of enthusiasts registered in advance.

In the data management server, Web contents are created and distributed from record information of a large number of users integrated and stored in a database in response to a request from each user's computer system. be able to.

Therefore, individual enthusiasts can use not only the record information obtained by themselves but also the record information obtained by a large number of other enthusiasts.

The data management server requests authentication at least for access related to data input,
By preventing unauthorized access, the reliability of the stored record information can be improved.

Thus, in the present invention, a large number of users
By transmitting the self-acquired record information to the data management server and storing it, a large amount of record information can be collected and integrated into a database. Can be effectively used in the field of

[0017]

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a system explanatory diagram conceptually showing a recording information collection / database system according to the present invention.
First, in the figure, reference numeral 1 (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e,
..) Show individual terminal devices of many users, and these terminal devices 1 are connected to the Internet 2. The connection form is appropriate, such as constant connection or dial-up connection. In addition, the terminal device 1 can be configured by a general-purpose computer system or a dedicated computer system. These computer systems have a stationary configuration and a portable configuration. It can also be.

Each of these terminal devices 1 accumulates self-acquired record information by inputting it in a predetermined format and stores it in an individual database 3 (3a, 3b, 3) in each storage.
c, 3d, 3e,...). On the other hand, reference numeral 4 denotes a data management server connected to the Internet 2,
The data management server 4 stores data transmitted from each terminal device 1 via the Internet 2 and forms an integrated database 5 in a storage. In addition, a plurality of data management servers 4 can be distributed in addition to a single installation.

Next, the recording information collection /
A description will be given of a specific example in which the database system is applied to a diving log system that records and accumulates marine conditions and the like at the time of diving as described above.

First, a client application constituting a dive log system is installed and operable in the terminal device 1 of each user. This client application is referred to as “diving LOG software” for convenience. This “diving LOG software” generally has the following functions. 1. 1. Diving log input function Internet compatible function 3. 3. Database function Data analysis function 5. Image browser function 6. Printing function 7. HTML output function

FIG. 2 shows an example of a data input screen at the time of execution of the diving log input function. Data items to be input as a log are similar to those which have been conventionally written in a notebook or the like. , Date, temperature, weather, wave condition, current condition, diving No. (Time), points, water temperature, transparency, transparency, terrain, weights, suits,
Dive start time, dive end time, tank type, capacity, tank pressure, diving style (beach, boat), guide, buddy, fish, wreck, etc. After inputting such items on the input screen, a saving process is performed. still,
This diving log input function is connected to another terminal device, for example, a portable terminal device such as a diving computer, and communicates with another terminal device in addition to an input function from an input device such as a keyboard of the terminal device 1 itself. An appropriate input function such as a function of inputting data from a server or a function of inputting data as a file can also be configured.

The storing process includes a first storing process of storing input information only in the own terminal device 1 and accumulating the information in the individual database 3, and a storing process of storing the input information in the own terminal device 1.
Then, the input information is transmitted to the data management server 4 via the Internet 2 and stored in the data management server 4 in a second storage process. "Save and Send" in File Menu 6
Corresponds to the processing of

The flow from data input to data transmission will now be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In step 1, the user activates “diving LOG software” installed on his computer system,
Open the input screen. Next, in step 2, input is performed for each item as described above. Then, in step 3,
The mode of the storage process, that is, the first storage process described above or the second storage process
Select the save process. If the first storage process is selected, the process proceeds to step 4 where the input data is stored only in the storage of the terminal device 1 of the terminal device 1 itself. On the other hand, when the second storage processing, that is, “save and send” is selected in step 3, the processing shifts to step 5 and shifts to a data transmission screen via the Internet as shown in FIG. On the data transmission screen, the content input in step 2 is displayed as it is, and the input data can be confirmed. On this data transmission screen, a transmission button 7 and a reset button 8 are displayed, and the transmission button 7
When is selected, the process proceeds to the next step 6. On the other hand, when the reset button 8 is selected, the second save processing ends and the screen shifts to the data input screen of FIG. When the transmission button 7 is selected and the process proceeds to step 6 as described above, the Internet connection process starts, and a Web connection is made to the address for the storage process in the data management server 4. In the second storage process, the data management server 4 accessed from the user's terminal device 1 via the Internet 2 transmits the response of the user authentication process to the user's terminal device 1 in step 7, and the user's terminal device 1 and the data management server 4 perform a user authentication process. This user authentication process can be performed by inputting a user ID and a password as in a normal authentication process. If the authentication process in step 7 is normally completed, in step 8, the terminal device 1 sends the data management server 4 to the data management server 4 via the Internet 2.
Is transmitted. Then, the data management server 4 converts the data transmitted from the terminal device 1 into
It is stored in the integrated database 5.

Through the above process, the data management server 4 collects diving log data from a large number of users and accumulates the data in the integrated database 5, and uses the data of the integrated database as shared data of each user. Can be.

That is, each user downloads information such as the following example by connecting to a homepage corresponding to the data management server 4 from his / her own terminal device 1 via the Internet 2 using a Web browser or the like. can do. 1. 1. Data of selected area Analysis data 3. 3. Image stored in data management server 4 Other content

That is, the data management server 4 converts Web contents from stored data of a large number of users stored in the integrated database 5 in response to a request from the terminal device 1 of each user via the Internet 2. Created and distributed. The user's request can be a search, extraction, sorting, or the like based on items such as date, point, and observed fish, as database functions, in addition to displaying and downloading accumulated data. FIG. 5 shows one aspect of the screen of the homepage corresponding to the data management server 4. In this screen,
Diving points are categorized by area, and the display of the data input date of each area is indicated by a link button 9 for jumping to a display page of detailed information of each input data.
It has been. By clicking the link button 9, the display jumps to a display page of detailed information of each input data, and a detailed information display screen as shown in FIG. 6, for example, is displayed, and detailed information of the diving log transmitted by each user is displayed. Can be viewed on the Web.

As described above, the data management server 4 prepares individual contents of each input data as contents and makes it possible to distribute the contents. In addition, the data management server 4 performs various analysis processes by integrating each input data and performs various analysis processes. It can be distributed as content. FIG. 7 shows a display screen of an example of these contents. This content analyzes transition of water temperature and transition of transparency for each region from a large amount of accumulated data.
The analysis result is shown as a graph of each transition.

As other contents, by accumulating a large amount of data, it is possible to distribute, for example, information such as a place where a desired fish is often observed, a timing and a water temperature.

Furthermore, the data management server 4 can also create contents such as display of images input by the user and popularity voting, and distribute the images, and can use popular images and the like. Distribution of the screen saver that has occurred.

The distribution of such contents to each terminal device 1 of each user, that is, the downloading of data to the terminal device 1 can be performed by anyone according to the contents of the data, and a predetermined user authentication is performed. You can also

The data management server 4 uses the function of the WWW server as a communication place for connecting each terminal device 1 of each user, for example, a so-called “meeting room”, a “bulletin board”, a “mailing list”, or the like. Functions can be configured.

In response to the above-described contents that can be distributed by the data management server 4, the terminal device 1 of each user is configured to be able to start a Web browser or the like for such contents. It is convenient if the browser can be started from the above “diving LOG software”.

Among the above-described functions of the “diving LOG software”, 3 database functions, 4 data analysis functions, 5 image browser functions, and 6 printing functions are:
It corresponds to the data stored in the data management server 4 and the individual database of its own terminal device 1. On the other hand, the HTML output function 7 is intended to be used when the user discloses a home page owned by the user.

As described above, the specific example in which the recording information collection / database system of the present invention is applied to a diving log system that records and accumulates the marine situation at the time of diving is described. Has the following effects. (1) From the diver side a. Conventionally, it has been difficult to obtain the latest information on a point to go. However, the latest information on a point to go can be quickly obtained from a large amount of data stored in the data management server 4. b. With only the self-acquired logs, the number of data to be stored is limited, so it takes a long time until the marine situation can be analyzed and predicted. The predicted data can be easily obtained. (2) From the perspective of sightseeing and resort related parties a. In the past, in order to increase the number of customers, it was necessary to transmit information such as advertisements by using various media by themselves. However, advertisements, information provision, sponsorship, campaigns on the homepage that constitutes the diving log system of the present invention Or if the user fills in the information and the name or the like is known from the data published on the site, the number of customers can be increased. b. In the past, the method of grasping market trends was limited, but logs uploaded by users,
The trend can be understood from the browsing record of the log display page. (3) From the viewpoint of researchers in the environment, etc. Conventionally, it is difficult to obtain a wide range and a large amount of data in order to investigate the water temperature and the distribution of living areas of living organisms, because the researchers themselves conduct surveys. On the other hand, by using the database system according to the present invention, a wide range and a large amount of data can be easily obtained, and analysis and prediction in own research can be performed very easily. . (4) From the point of view of education The conventional teaching materials are mainly books, and the published information is not necessarily new. However, by using the database system according to the present invention as the teaching material, the information is always fresh. In addition, data such as photographs are abundant, and it is possible to bring about fun learning.

Next, in addition to the diving log system described above, the recording information collection / database system of the present invention includes, as described above, "fishing", "bird watching", "astronomical observation", "climbing and trekking". , Golf, surfing (including body board), geological ore observation (collection), plant observation (collection), and other fields related to nature, as well as travel, trains, It can be used in various fields such as "gourmet", and in each of these fields, a large number of users can transmit a large amount of recorded information by transmitting self-acquired recorded information to the data management server and storing it. It can be collected and integrated into a database, and can be effectively used in many fields such as education, academics, tourism, etc., as well as lovers.

[0036]

As described above, the system of the present invention has the following effects. a. Enthusiasts in various fields related to nature, such as diving, and other various fields, start a predetermined client application in their own computer system, input record information of self acquisition in a predetermined format, and enter their own database. Can be additionally recorded, and can be transmitted to a data management server via the Internet and stored. b. In the data management server, a large number of recorded information from a large number of pre-registered enthusiasts is integrated and accumulated, and in the data management server, in response to a request from each user's computer system, it is stored in a database. Since Web contents can be created and distributed from the integrated record information of many users, individual enthusiasts can not only record information acquired by themselves but also many other information. It is possible to use the record information acquired by the fellow enthusiasts in an integrated manner. c. Since recorded information collected by lovers and the like distributed nationwide is compiled into a database, a great advantage that a large amount of data can be easily collected is obtained. d. By transmitting and accumulating the self-acquired record information to the data management server in this way, a large number of users can collect a large amount of record information and make a database in an integrated manner. It can be effectively used in many fields such as education, science and tourism.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system explanatory diagram conceptually showing a recording information collection / database system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 shows an example of a data input screen at the time of executing a diving log input function in a user's computer system.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow from data input to data transmission.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a data transmission screen via the Internet in a user's computer system.

FIG. 5 illustrates one aspect of a homepage screen corresponding to the data management server.

FIG. 6 shows an example of a detailed information display screen jumped from the link button of FIG.

FIG. 7 shows an example of a content screen that can be distributed by integrating and analyzing data stored in a data management server.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e, ...) Computer system 2 Internet 3 (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e, ...) Individual database 4 Data management server 5 Integrated database 6 File menu 7 Send button 8 Reset button 9 Link button

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A data management server connected to the Internet and a plurality of terminal devices of a user, and a predetermined client application is executed on the terminal device of the user, so that self-acquired record information is converted in a predetermined format. The data can be input and stored in the user's individual database, and transmitted to the data management server via the Internet so that the data can be integrated and stored. The data management server responds to the request from the terminal device of each user and stores the data in the database. A recording information collection / database system characterized in that Web contents are created and distributed from a large number of user recording information integrated and stored in a Web server. 2. The recording information collection / database system according to claim 1, wherein the data management server is configured to request authentication for at least access for inputting recording information. 3. The client application has a command for automatically transmitting recording information to a predetermined data management server via the Internet when storing the input recording information in a terminal device. 2. A record information collection / database system according to claim 1. 4. The recorded information collection / database system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device is constituted by a general-purpose computer system. 5. The recording information collection / database system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device is configured as a dedicated computer system. 6. The recorded information collection / database system according to claim 4, wherein the computer system is of a portable type.