Date & Time：Saturday, August 1st, 2020　14:00～17:10 (JST）
Location: Web Event (via ZOOM, Youtube and Twitter)

Click here to access the ARC Day 2020 via Youtube.

Program

The handouts with red icons are protected with passwords. If you wish to download any of them, please email us at r-darc(at)st.ritsumei.ac.jp (Please change "at" to @.)

August 1st（Sat）　14:00～17:10（JST）
14:00-14:05	Opening remarks
14:05-14:35	Session 1 Firstly, each project leader will introduce their projects within 3 minutes in the order of the program. Then, the rest of the session will be spent on Q&As. We will take questions from the participants on Zoom and questions from YouTube participants via Twitter。
	1.	「Research Project on the Japanese Cultural Resources using the Concept of "Metahistory" or "Les lieux de mémoire"」 Project leader: Koichi HOSOI, Professor, College of Image Arts and Sciences, RU
	2.	「A System Development Project for Exhibition of Images such as Ukiyo-e through the Means of Games」 Project leader: Ruck THAWONMAS, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU
	3.	「Play between Creativity and Learning」 Project leader: Akinori NAKAMURA, Professor, College of Image Arts and Sciences, RU (Presenter: Akito INOUE, Lecturer, College of Image Arts and Sciences, RU）
	4.	「Digital Archive of the Techniques, Processing and Enjoyment of Manga and Anime with its Focus on International Spread and Propagation of Culture」 Project leader: Ryosuke YAMANISHI, Associate Professor, Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University
	5.	Collaborative Project ① Project leaders：Prof. HOSOI, Prof RUCK, Prof. NAKAMURA (Presenter: Mr. Toshinari TSUJI, M1, Graduate School of Letters, RU)
14:35-15:05	Session 2
	6.	「Play and Discovery in Kanji Characters」 Project leader: Lin MENG, Associate Professor, College of Science and Engineering, RU
	7.	「Construction and Transmission of a Kyoto Street Culture Archive」 Project leader: Shinya SAITO, Associate Professor, College of Image Arts and Sciences, RU
	8.	「Playing in the City of Kyoto - Construction of a Virtual Kyoto Using VR and AR」 Project leader: Naomi KAWASUMI, Associate Professor, College of Letters, RU (Presenter: Hirotaka SATO, Assistant Professor, College of Letters, RU)
	9.	Collaborative Project ② Project leaders: Prof. RUCK, Assoc. Prof. SAITO, Assoc. Prof. KAWASUMI (Assis. Prof. SATO)
	10.	Collaborative Project ③ Project leaders: Prof. MAEDA, Assoc. Prof. MENG, Assoc. Prof. Fumio GOTO (The Shirakawa Shizuka Institute of East Asian Characters and Culture/ Grad. School of Professional Teacher Education)
15:05-15:35	Session 3
	11.	「Acoustic Sound Reconstruction and Playing-Support with Traditional Instruments」 Project leader: Takanobu NISHIURA, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU
	12.	「A Project on the Intellectual Linkage of Large-Scale Cultural Information」 Project leader: Ryo AKAMA, Professor, College of Letters, RU
	13.	「Project of developing Evaluation Datasets for ARC Collection Databases」 Project leader: Akira MAEDA, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU
	14.	「Digital Archiving of Indonesian Cultural Heritage and Development of 4D High-Definition Visualization Contents」 Project leader: Dr. Fadjar I. THUFAIL, Senior Researcher, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) (Presenter: Satoshi TANAKA, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU)
15:35-15:50	Break
15:50-16:20	Session 4
	15.	「Collection and Preservation of Traditional Games from around the World, the Systematization and the Study of Cultural Relevance of Them」 Project leader: Isao UMEBAYASHI, Part-time Lecturer, Shitennoji University
	16.	「Visualization for Re-experiencing the Psychology/ Festival using VR Technology」 Project leader: Kyoko HASEGAWA, Lecturer, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU
	17.	「Generation Z Web Content Archiving Project」 Project leader: Yumi TAKENAKA, Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, RU
	18.	Collaborative Project ④ Project leaders: Prof. TAKENAKA, Dr. HASEGAWA
16:20-16:50	Session 5
	19.	「Digital Archive Project of Japanese Arts in the Collection of Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad, India」 Project leader: Shinya MAEZAKI, Associate Professor, Dept. of Apparel and Space Design, Kyoto Women's University
	20.	「Edo Period Map goes Digital - The O Edo ezu as an Interactive Resource」 Project leader: Michael KINSKI, Professor, Japanese Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt
	21.	「Using Digital Archives to Create a Research Network of Japanese Cultural Resources in the UK and Utilizing Digital Resources for Japanese Studies」 Project leader: Ryoko MATSUBA, Senior Digital Humanities Officer, SISJAC
	22.	「A Database Construction of Japanese Medieval Handwritten Copies of Sutras Located in Europe and their Analysis Using Machine Learning」 Project leader: Toshiaki AIDA, Lecturer, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health System, Okayama University
16:50-17:05	Buffer（15分） Q&A Session （Questions from each session and other questions）
17:05-17:10	Closing remarks

Due to the spread of the new coronavirus, the Gion Festival in Kyoto, one of the biggest and most important festivals in Japan celebrated for more than 1,100 years, will take place on a much smaller scale this year as the grand Yamahoko Junkō parade and other related events have been canceled.

Despite this situation, to provide an opportunity to learn about and experience the Gion Festival, the Art Research Center's International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC) at Ritsumeikan University, in cooperation with the College of Letters, will be launching "The Gion Festival Digital Museum: The Past, Present, and Future of the Gion Festival" from July 1 - July 31, 2020, on its website.

The Gion Festival, which usually takes place in Kyoto in the same month, is widely known in Japan and abroad as one of the three major Japanese festivals. The Art Research Center (ARC) provides an online platform where its research results on the festival so far are published so that people around the world, who are interested in Japanese culture, can deepen their understanding of the Gion Festival by virtually experiencing it.

On the ARC's website, 2D and 3D maps of the Gion Festival and videos of a virtual Yamahoko Junkō, the magnificent procession of decorated floats and the crowning event of the festival, will be made available. Besides, one can discover the three-dimensional, see-through visualization model of the Hachiman-yama float, one of the festival floats, with new perspectives otherwise invisible to the human eye. Furthermore, the Byobu Matsuri, or Folding Screen Festival, at the Nagae Family Residence, a Kyo-machiya designated a cultural property by the city of Kyoto, will be exhibited in the virtual space.

By digitally archiving traditional events such as the Gion Festival and making them accessible to the broad public, the ARC is dedicated to research, analyze, record, organize, preserve and disseminate the tangibles as well as intangibles of Japanese cultural and historical heritage to retain their significance for future generations.

Access to The Gion Festival Digital Museum (available from July 1, 2020)

https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/lib/vm/gionfestivalDM/

Event Schedule

July 1 (Wed), 2020: The Gion Festival Digital Museum 2020 opens to the public (new content to be continuously added after its launch)

July 19 (Sun), 2020: Web event will be held at the Nagae Family Residence (details to be announced on the website later)

The 73rd International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar next week on Wednesday, July 22, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

"Digitizing Borobudur: A Perspective on Technological Co-Production" (in English)

Speaker: Dr. Fadjar I. THUFAIL (Senior Researcher, Research Center for Area Studies, Indonesian Institute of Sciences)

Seminar handout (free to download)

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Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate. Please access the Webinar via the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNlN7ppEMMnF_eoA0PXl2dA/featured

Gion Festival Digital Museum 2020

Live Web Event: Round Table at the Nagae Family Residence on Sunday, July 19, 2020 (in Japanese)

Topic: Effectivity and Possibility of Digital Archives for Local Communities from a Digital Humanities Point of View

Organizer: Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University (Executive Committee of The Gion Festival Digital Museum 2020)

Date & Time: Sunday, July 19, 2020 / 15:00 - 16:30 JST live from the Nagae Family Residence via Youtube >>https://youtu.be/-L_I4MBuf_o

Language: Japanese

Background: The Nagae Family Residence is a Kyo-machiya - a traditional wooden townhouse - and has been designated a tangible cultural property by Kyoto city which sought to restore the interior to how it looked when the building was constructed 150 years ago. The Nagae family used to be merchants of the Kimono fabric. After Ritsumeikan University was donated a collection of items belonging to the Nagae Family Residence, the Art Research Center (ARC) began to digitally archive this collection and became involved in the planning and managing of the Byobu Matsuri (folding screen festival) held at the Nagae Family Residence during the Gion Festival.

Event Schedule (to be confirmed)

15:00 Welcome speech

Keiji Yano (Professor, College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)

15:05 Part 1 - Introduction of The Gion Festival Digital Museum 2020 and explanation of its contents

Hirotaka Sato (Assistant Professor, College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University), student of the Kyoto Studies Fieldwork Group IV

15:45 Part 2 - Exchange of opinions

Moderator: Keiji Yano

Panelists:

Kenji Tsuji (President, Gion Festival Fune-hoko Preservation Association)

Masao Goto (Former President, Hachiman-yama Preservation Association)

Yoshie Takagi (Curator, Nagae Family Residence Project)

Hirotaka Sato

16:15 Question & Answer session

16:30 End of the event

Access here >>https://youtu.be/-L_I4MBuf_o

The 72^nd International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar next week on Wednesday, July 8, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

1. "Audience Participation Games for Promoting Ukiyo-e" (in English)

Speaker: Pujana PALIYAWAN (Senior Researcher, Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University)

Seminar handout (free to download)

Presentation slides (free to download)

2. "口絵デジタルアーカイブ構築によってみえてきた課題 (Issues Revealed by Constructing the Kuchi-e Digital Archive)" (in Japanese)

Speaker: Kana TSUNEKI (Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts (Humanities), National Institute of Technology, Kurume College / Ph.D. Candidate, Digital Humanities for Arts and Cultures, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)

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Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate. Please access the Webinar via the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNlN7ppEMMnF_eoA0PXl2dA/featured

The Annual Conference of the Japan Art Documentation Society (JADS), hosted by the Japan Art Documentation Society (JADS) in cooperation with the MEXT International Joint Usage / Research Center International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC), Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, took place on June 27 (Sat) and 28 (Sun), 2020.

To prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the event was held online for the first time this year and more than 130 members and non-members of the JADS participated.

As part of this year's annual conference, a symposium on 「芸術文化資源デジタル・アーカイブの国際的共同利用 -- オンライン環境での知的生産システムとそのツール」 (The International Joint Usage of Digital Archives for Arts and Cultural Resources -- Intelligent Production Systems and their Tools in an Online Environment) was held.

The symposium began with a welcome speech by Prof. Koichi Hosoi, Director of the Art Research Center (ARC), who introduced the international research activities of the ARC-iJAC in the field of digital humanities.

Following his opening remarks, three presenters proposed activities and tools for the next generation of digital research environments in light of the role of digital archives until now which only had a focus on reference information. In this context, they discussed ways and future directions to construct an online knowledge cycle for arts and cultural resources.

Among these three speakers, Mitsuhiro Tsuda, a researcher at the Art Research Center, publicly presented the concept and utilization of the ARC Research Space and ARC Database for the first time and explained their role in effectively building relationships between digital resources and intellectual activities.

In supporting the activities of the Japan Art Documentation Society (JADS), the ARC-iJAC aims to contribute to the establishment of such an online knowledge cycle which may enable researchers, curators and librarians not only to "browse" information, but also archive the "relationships" between these resources and produce new knowledge by "editing" and "re-archiving" them in the future.

The MEXT International Joint Usage / Research Center「International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC) 」, Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, will be co-hosting the 2020 Annual Conference of the Japan Art Documentation Society (JADS) on June 27 (Sat) and June 28 (Sun), 2020.

On the first day, a symposium with the topic 「芸術文化資源デジタル・アーカイブの国際的共同利用 -- オンライン環境での知的生産システムとそのツール (International Joint Usage of Digital Archives for Arts and Cultural Resources -- Intelligent Production Systems and their Tools in an Online Environment)」 will be held where ARC members will be giving lectures and presenting the "ARC Research Space", amongst others.

For a detailed program, please click here (in Japanese).

■ Date:

June 27 (Sat) and June 28 (Sun), 2020

June 27, 13:00 - 17:00 (Reception from 12:00)

June 28, 13:30 - 16:05 (Reception for Research Presentation from 12:30)

■ Participation Method:

This event will be held online.

Details on how to participate will be announced later.

■ Fees for Participation & Materials:

Free of charge for JADS members and non-members (both days).

*A PFD version of the manuscript will be distributed online in advance.

■ Registration:

Please register to participate in the event via this application form (https://forms.gle/uDVHoecvArnV3BpJ7).

*Limited capacity of 200 people; registration deadline is June 22nd, 2020.

For inquiries, please contact: The Organizing Committee for the 2020 Annual Conference of the Japan Art Documentation Society

jads_conf2020■googlegroups.com (please replace "■" with "@")

The 71st International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar next week on Monday, June 22, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

"ドイツにおけるデジタル・ヒューマニティーズ。日本学を例として (Digital Humanities in Germany. Japanese Studies and Beyond)" (in Japanese)

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael KINSKI (Japanese Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

Seminar handout (free to download)

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Date: Monday, June 22, 2020 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate. Please access the Webinar via the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNlN7ppEMMnF_eoA0PXl2dA/featured

The 70th International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar next week on Wednesday, June 17, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

1. "大規模3次元計測に基づくインドネシア世界遺産・ボロブドゥール寺院の高精細可視化 (High-definition Visualization of Large-scale Indonesian Heritage Borobudur Temple Based on 3D Point Clouds)" (in Japanese)

Speaker: Jiao PAN (Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Graphics Laboratory 1, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University)

2. "レーザ光を用いた遠隔受音システム (A Distant-Talking Speech Measuring System Which Uses Laser Beam)" (in Japanese)

Speaker: Chengkai CAI (Ph.D. Candidate, Acoustics & Signal Processing Labs, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University)

3. "環境音認識における深層ニューラルネットワークを用いた学習データの自動生成 (A Study on Training Data Proliferation for Indoor-Environmental Sound Classification Based on Neural Network)" (in English)

Speaker: Yutao ZHANG (Ph.D. Candidate, Acoustics & Signal Processing Labs, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University)

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Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate. Please access the Webinar via the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNlN7ppEMMnF_eoA0PXl2dA/featured