"Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures" Project
The "Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures" project is an undertaking by Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto that stems from the 21st COE Program Kyoto Art Entertainment Innovation Research project which has resulted in digital archives and databases of tangible and intangible cultural assets related to Kyoto and Japanese culture with the aim of integrating humanities and information technology. The project has already achieved top national level with over 1 million data entries, and with information technologies such as multimedia digital archiving greatly enhancing research environments and methods and acting as information and social portals, the project shown that our Center has the potential to become a hub for institutes of Japanese research worldwide.
In the west the academic field called Digital Humanities has been established to harness digital technologies in humanities research. This is precisely what we aim to develop through the activities of the Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures. Currently, research on Japanese culture overseas is heading further towards network-oriented undertakings, greatly dividing Japanese and overseas researchers in terms of research methodology and objectives.
With such world cutting-edge research trend in mind, the ARC focuses on becoming an educational center based on the graduate school and nurturing researchers of Japanese culture who are competent to conduct research overseas with a global viewpoint. Through this concept, we are literally developing globally with plans to collaborate with top-class research institutes and museums, including the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, the British Museum, and the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies at Columbia University.
Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Art and Cultures FY 2022 "Support Program for Research Center Formation" Research Project
| No. | Project Title/Affiliation/Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | 「デジタルカルチャーにおける歴史的価値向上のデジタルデザイン」プロジェクト |
| Professor, College of Image Arts and Sciences, RU Akinori NAKAMURA | |
| 2 | VTuberを導入した浮世絵記述データ収集システム開発 プロジェクト |
| Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU THAWONMAS Ruck | |
| 3 | 京都ストリート文化アーカイブの構築と発信 プロジェクト |
| Associate Professor, College of Image Arts and Sciences, RU Shinya SAITO | |
| 4 | 歴史都市京都の時空間データベース構築―千年都市の探究― プロジェクト |
| Associate Professor, College of Letters, RU Naomi KAWASUMI | |
| 5 | 文化資源データベースの多言語データ統合 プロジェクト |
| Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU Akira MAEDA | |
| 6 | 世界の日本文化資源データの駆動空間の構築 |
| Professor, College of Letters, RU Ryo AKAMA | |
| 7 | 文化財保全を目的とした音響デジタルアーカイブ プロジェクト |
| Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU Takanobu NISHIURA | |
| 8 | ARCデータベースを活用した家庭内視覚文化論の試み プロジェクト |
| Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, RU Yumi TAKENAKA | |
| 9 | 「映像文化資源の組織化と社会活用のためのデジタルデザイン」 プロジェクト |
| Professor, College of Image Arts and Sciences, RU Koichi HOSOI |
| No. | Collaboration Project Title | Individual Project Title | Affiliation/Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 古文用音声認識システムの構築とくずし字翻刻の音声入力システム | 文化財保全を目的とした音響デジタルアーカイブ | <Representative> Takanobu NISHIURA, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU |
| 世界の日本文化資源データの駆動空間の構築 | Ryo AKAMA, Professor, College of Letters, ARC, RU | ||
| 2 | データ駆動型による浮世絵データベースの実践的活用環境の構築 | 文化資源データベースの多言語データ統合プロジェクト | <Representative> Akira MAEDA, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU |
| 世界の日本文化資源データの駆動空間の構築 | Ryo AKAMA, Professor, College of Letters, ARC, RU |
