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February 27, 2009

The 1st International Symposium on Digital Humanities for Japanese Arts and Cultures

   Since the start of our Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Global COE (Center of Excellence) Program “Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures” at Ritsumeikan University in June 2007, we have been conducting education and research, aiming at creating a new type of the humanities that fully utilize information technologies so that we could bridge the gap between Japanese Studies in Japan and abroad, as well as lead the humanities in the future.
   Welcoming distinguished scholars in various fields of digital humanities from all over the world as guest speakers, we sincerely hope that our 1st International Symposium on Digital Humanities for Japanese Arts and Cultures (DH-JAC2009) will provide us with a great opportunity not only to look back and reflect on our activities in the past two years, but also to find a path to take for the future of the Center. Please join us on this important occasion.

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February 26, 2009

DH-JAC2009 You can participate in the Symposium without advanced registration ... free!

The advanced registration for the 1st International Symposium on Digital Humanities for Japanese Arts and Cultures was over, but we still have seats available. Thus, you can participate in the Symposium without advanced registration … free!, thanks to many organizations’supports. Please join us on this important occassion. 

September 8, 2008

Timetable Day 1: February 27 (Friday)

■ Start registration
9:00-

■ Opening speech
9:40-9:50
Toyoomi Nagata: Chairman, the Ritsumeikan Board of Trustees

■ Announcements and information
9:50-10:00

■ “What is Digital Humanities?: Its Present and Future”
Coordinators and Moderators: Kozaburo Hachimura (Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University) and Keiji Yano (Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)

[Part 1]
Moderators: Keiji Yano and Kozaburo Hachimura
 
① 10:00-10:20
Keiji Yano: Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University; Leader of Historical Geographic Information Systems Group
Geographical Information Systems and Digital Humanities: Revolution or Evolution

② 10:20-10:40
Masao Kawashima: Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University; Director of the Center; and Leader of Kyoto Culture Group
Early Modern Genre Paintings and the Digital Humanities

③ 0:40-11:00
Ryo Akama: Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University; Leader of Japanese Culture Group
Roles of Image databases in Art and Cultural Research

④ 11:00-11:20
Kozaburo Hachimura: Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University; Vice-Director of the Center; and Leader of Digital Archiving Technology Group
Digital Archive of Dancing with Motion Capture

⑤ 11:20-11:40
Mitsuyuki Inaba: Professor, Graduate School of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University; Leader of Web Technology Group
The World Wide Web and Digital Humanities: A Once and Future Discipline

[Lunch] 11:40-13:00

[Part 2] Guest Speakers:
Moderators: Kozaburo Hachimura and Keiji Yano

① 13:00-13:40
Neil Fraistat: Professor, University of Maryland, USA
The Digital Humanities, Local and Global

② 13:40-14:10
Eero Hyvönen: Professor, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
CultureSampo: Finnish Culture on the Semantic Web 2.0

[Break] 14:10-14:20

③ 14:20-14:50
Ian N. Gregory: Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University, UK
A Place in the Humanities

④ 14:50-15:20
Richard C. Beacham: Professor, King’s College London, UK
The Future of the Past: New Developments in Computer Based Cultural Heritage Research

[Break] 15:20-15:40

[Part 3] Discussion
Moderators: Kozaburo Hachimura and Keiji Yano
15:40-16:40

■ Reception
18:30-20:30
Place: Tawawa-Nijo (a restaurant) on the 7th Floor, Suzaku Campus, Ritsumeikan University

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September 8, 2008

Timetable Day 2: February 28 (Saturday)

[Morning]
8:30- Start registration
8:55-9:00 Announcements and information

■ Reports on Research Results by Young Researchers, Participants of the International Training Program
9:00-11:40
Moderators: Mitsuyuki Inaba and Hidehiko Kanegae

① 9:00-9:25
Satoshi Ōtsuki: Postdoctoral Fellow, Kinugasa Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University
How to Preserve and/or Conserve Historical Districts by Residents Themselves?: Case Studies of Thailand

② 9:25-9:50
Tetsuo Mizuta: Postdoctoral Fellow, Ritsumeikan-Global Innovation Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University
World Heritage Site Ayutthaya's Flood Loss Estimation as Risk Management, and Lectures as a Feedback of Research Activities

③ 9:50-10:15
Shin Ōno: Graduate Student, Graduate School of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University; Research Assistant of the Center
Research of Visualized Environment for Historical Events

[Break] 10:15-10:25

④ 10:25-10:50
Atsuko Ōya: Graduate Student, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University; Research Assistant of the Center
Handling of Non-film Materials in the Makino Mamoru Collection of C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University

⑤ 10:50-11:15
Seiya Tsuruta: Graduate Student, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University; Research Assistant of the Center
Extraction of Emotional Information from Music for Virtual Dance Collaboration System

⑥ 11:15-11:40
Aki Ishigami: Postdoctoral Fellow, Kinugasa Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University
Survey of Shunga and Ehon in Overseas Collections

⑦ 11:40-11:50
Comments by Sarah Thompson: Assistant Curator for Japanese Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which accepted our ITP scholars

[Lunch]11:50-13:00

■ “Innovation of Image Database and Museum Networks: Globalization and Networking of Studies of Japanese Cultures and Arts”
Coordinator and Moderator:Ryo Akama: Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University
13:00-13:10
Introduction by Ryo Akama

【Part 1】 Guest Speakers:
Keynote speech
13:10-13:50
Josef Kreiner: Special Professor, Hosei University; Professor Emeritus, University of Bonn, Germany
Japanese Collections in Europe: Their role within the Japanese Studies and their Significance for the Formation of the Image of Japan

Case reports
①13:50-14:20
Helena Honcoopová: Director of the Collection of Oriental Art, National Gallery in Prague, Czech
Collections of Japanese Arts in the Czech Republic and their Digitation

②14:20-14:50
Sarah Thompson: Assistant Curator for Japanese Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Abraham Schroeder: Research Assistant for Japanese Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Japanese Print Access and Documentation Project (JPADP) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)

③14:50-15:20
Rosina Buckland: Research Assistant (Japanese Paintings), Japanese Section, Dept. of Asia, British Museum
Taking the British Museum to the World: Collections Online

[Break] 15:20-15:40

【Part 2】 Discussion
15:40-17:10
Moderator: Ryo Akama
Discussants: Guest speakers of the Part 1

■ Closing Speech
17:10-17:20
Masao Kawashima: Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University

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September 4, 2008

Masao Kawashima (Day 1, Part 1)

Masao Kawashima  (Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)

Early Modern Genre Paintings and the Digital Humanities

This presentation raises some issues to which we have to give consideration, when analyzing genre paintings created in the early modern period or before. While having seen some successful cases of digital archiving of paintings, such as that of ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints), we still have to deal with quite a few problems, technological or otherwise. For example, when introducing information technology such as digital archiving into conventional academic fields in the Humanities, we have to reconsider their established premises, including the relationship between researchers who want to study paintings as research materials and their owners’ copy rights. I will discuss these issues with a couple of actual examples.

 

September 4, 2008

Ryo Akama (Day 1, Part 1)

Ryo Akama (Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)

Roles of Image Databases in Art and Cultural Research 

Without having some personal and/or research connections, researchers outside often have a hard time conducting research on artworks and artifacts, housed in museums. They have to wait for museum exhibitions to get access to the collections. As for the museums, they have their own responsibilities to identify their collections and to restore them. Collection owners have their “ownership,” thus “privilege to control collection information.” In short, all these responsibilities and rights had made our academic environment exclusive. A breakthrough to it was made by publicly accessible online databases of museum collections, which collection owners started to regard as an ace card to win operational cost or a litmus test, thus, an urgent issue in many countries.
With the online databases, researchers without particular personal connections came to possess enormous volume of information. What we have to think about now is how to make their research outcomes public and share information while paying back to collection owners who waived their privilege to control collection information. Taking a case of the ukiyo-e database I developed, I would like to suggest a few ways to do it.

 

September 4, 2008

Keiji Yano (Day 1, Part 1)

Keiji Yano (Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)

Geographical Information Systems and Digital Humanities: Revolution or Evolution

Geography has experienced two revolutions in information technology since World War II; the Quantitative Revolution and GIS (Geographical Information Systems) Revolution. The former has introduced a positivist epistemological framework in Human Geography as well as statistical and mathematical methods. The latter has facilitated the dispersion of GIS as a tool for handling digital maps and given rise to GIScience as a new interdisciplinary research field. This paper explores the present situation and future prospects of Digital Humanities based on the experience of Geography and GIScience.

 

September 4, 2008

Kozaburo Hachimura (Day 1, Part 1)

Kozaburo Hachimura (Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University)

Digital Archive of Dancing with Motion Capture

Our research on digital archiving of human body motion and its application will be presented. This is one of the case studies of Digital Humanities research in art and culture field. Human body motion data are obtained by using an optical type motion capture system. Motion data are used for not only archiving but also several data analysis research. Analyses include identification of dance motions and/or dancers, and extraction of characteristic parts from the sequence of dance motion. Furthermore, motion data retrieval based on the similarity of body motion itself, and extracting relationships between 'Kansei' (emotional) factors which and body motions will be presented. Topics of creation of computer graphics animations and a trial of making a dance collaboration system in virtual reality environment will also be shown.

 

September 4, 2008

Mitsuyuki Inaba (Day 1, Part 1)

Mitsuyuki Inaba (Professor, Graduate School of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University; Associate Member, Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, University of California, San Diego)

The World Wide Web and Digital Humanities: A Once and Future Discipline

The World Wide Web keeps on developing as an infrastructure for sharing and exchanging knowledge among not only academe but also all kind of social activities. A new trend called Web 2.0 reduces the gap between experts and non-experts, and leads us to engage in participative and collaborative creation around the world. Semantic Web is a key concept for the next stage after Web 2.0, which interconnects various artifacts and cultural heritages to implement human/machine intelligible knowledge bases on the Web. This development of the Web that aims at the integration of human wisdom with the digital technology was already anticipated at its birth. In this presentation, the future vision of Digital Humanities will be discussed by overviewing the history of the Web evolution.

 

September 4, 2008

Masanori Aoyagi (Day 1, Part 2)

Masanori Aoyagi (Director, National Museum of Western Art)

Analogue and Digital Information in the Humanities

Since 1999, funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, I had created highest-quality digital image archives of murals in Pompei, Italy. At the same time, I produced a video, computer graphic reconstruction of Casa di Jiulio Polibio. These research projects let me realize that digitalized information has rather crucial vulnerability in its record preservation aspect, which led to my 2006 publication of Pompei (Regiones VI-VII) -Insula Occidentalis. I will elucidate why I made this publication, a catalogue of murals in Pompei, by comparing analogue and digital information. 
 

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