International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC)

The Digital Archive Research Center for Japanese Cultural Resources promotes academic digital archiving of information concerning Japanese culture. It provides a digital environment--the ARC Research Space--and facilities accommodating the various requirements of a diverse range of research, and encourages humanities scholars of Japanese culture to conduct research in Applied Humanities employing Digital Humanities (DH) approaches.

The wealth of scholarly information digitized and scientifically managed in the digital archives will be a valuable resource that adds depth to and expands new horizons for research in the humanities.

Main Objectives:

Promoting development of digital archives by encouraging everyday research activities in the humanities to be "born-digital."
Creating a constructive cycle of research activities in which digital archives dramatically increase research efficiency.
Providing an environment in which the efficiency of digital archives facilitates large-scale projects of a scope previously unthinkable, and producing advanced research results.

→ Download the ARC-iJAC pamphlet here.

Application

FY 2024 International Joint Research with Research Fund

[Application closed] The application for FY 2024 International Joint Research with Research Fund is open until January 22 (Mon), 2024, 12:00 noon (JST). Successful projects will receive research funds from the ARC-iJAC.

Learn more about the application here.

FY 2024 International Joint Research to Utilize the Center's Facilities and Equipment

The ARC provides its facilities and equipment such as rooms, equipment for digitalization, and cloud storage for members of joint research projects. The members can also create their own Virtual Institute or manage a database by using our platform. If you wish to use the Center's facilities and equipment, please read the guidelines below and submit a proposal.

FY 2024 International Joint Research to Utilize the ARC System for Educational Purposes

The ARC Research Space, an integrated digital archiving system for research purposes, can serve educational purposes as well. If you wish to apply for initiatives aimed at educational purposes utilizing our online system, please submit your application form to r-darc (at) st.ritsumei.ac.jp (change "at" to @).

FY 2024 International Joint Research to Utilize the ARC Research Space (Database System etc.) for Dissemination of Information

Applicants can publish, disseminate, and share the data or cultural resources in their possession through the ARC Research Space which represents ARC online databases. This service is available to those who wish to publish and distribute cultural resources, to restart an online database that has been out of operation, or to have the ARC take over the hosting of databases that have been operated in a local environment, while receiving technical support. Please submit your application form to r-darc (at) st.ritsumei.ac.jp (change "at" to @).