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September 4, 2008
Sarah E. Thompson and Abraham Schroeder (Day 2, Part 1 of the Afternoon)
Sarah E. Thompson (Assistant Curator for Japanese Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
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)
Joint summary:
The collection of some 50,000 Japanese prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is the largest such collection outside Japan and one of the largest in the world; it includes everything from early Buddhist printing to works by living artists but consists primarily of Edo-period ukiyo-e woodblock prints. The enormous size of the collection, much of which was acquired in Japan during the Meiji period, made it difficult to locate individual works within the collection and impossible to publish a conventional hard-copy catalogue. Storage conditions were also often unacceptable by modern archival standards.
To address these problems, in January 2005 the MFA launched a project to photograph, catalogue digitally for website publication, and rehouse the entire collection. The photography, rehousing, and web publication with basic initial cataloguing are expected to be completed during 2010.
The first half of our double presentation will introduce the special problems of the MFA collection and the plans made for dealing with them; the second half will focus on the technical details of the project and the day-to-day workflow for both MFA employees and the MFA volunteers and visiting scholars (from institutions such as Ritsumeikan University) whose help makes the project possible.
September 4, 2008
Helena Honcoopová (Day 2, Part 1 of the Afternoon)
Helena Honcoopová (Director of the Collection of Oriental Art, National Gallery in Prague)
Collections of Japanese Arts in the Czech Republic and their Digitation
I. Czech collections of Japanese arts and crafts - an overview in numbers ( 2 major state collections, 5 regional collections (Brno, Plzeň, Liberec, Olomouc, Opava) - minor oriental art collections incorporated to the movable property of Czech chateaux and castles).
II. Usage of digital means in accessing the public art collections in two major institutions - the National Gallery in Prague (The Collection of Oriental Art), the National Museum (The Asian Art Department of the Náprstek Museum).
III. Perspectives of further development of international cooperation in reasearch through digital means- an attempt of creating a network of European Japanese art collections Enjac - its goals and its limitations.
Rosina Buckland (Research Assistant (Japanese Paintings), Japanese Section, Dept. of Asia, British Museum)
Taking the British Museum to the World: Collections Online
As of December 2008, the Collections Online database of the British Museum has nearly 850,000objects, and more records are being uploaded. Making the collections accessible to a global audience for education and research is one of the central aims of the database. In my presentation I will briefly outline the history of the collections database, and some of its strengths, as well as the process leading to the historic moment of its launch online. I will talk about some of the collaborative projects for digitalization and research, and explain the hopes for development of this essential resource in the future.
September 4, 2008
Rosina Buckland (Day 2, Part2)
Research Assistant (Japanese Paintings), Japanese Section, Dept. of Asia, British Museum
Taking the British Museum to the World: Collections Online
As of December 2008, the Collections Online database of the British Museum has nearly 850,000 objects, and more records are being uploaded. Making the collections accessible to a global audience for education and research is one of the central aims of the database. In my presentation I will briefly outline the history of the collections database, and some of its strengths, as well as the process leading to the historic moment of its launch online. I will talk about some of the collaborative projects for digitalization and research, and explain the hopes for development of this essential resource in the future.
September 2, 2008
Masao Kawashima
Masao Kawashima (Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)
Ph.D., Cultural history of the Japanese society in the medieval and early modern periods.
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Ryo Akama
Ryo Akama (Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan
University)
History of the Japanese theater and Ukiyo-e, Digital archivist for Japanese art and culture.
more>>September 2, 2008
Keiji Yano
Keiji Yano (Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University; Visiting Professor, Centre for Spatial Information Science, Tokyo University)
Academic Qualifications:
Ph.D. (Doctor of Science) Geography , June 1992, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
September 2, 2008
Kozaburo Hachimura
Kozaburo Hachimura (Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University; Vice Director, the Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures, Ritsumeikan University)
Group Leader of Digital Archiving Technology Group.
September 2, 2008
Mitsuyuki Inaba
Mitsuyuki Inaba (Professor, Graduate School of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University; Associate Member, Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, University of California, San Diego)
Group leader of the Web Technology Group in the Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Culture, Ritsumeikan University. My current research interests include Semantic Web, Network Science, and Learning Science.
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Masanori Aoyagi
Masanori Aoyagi (Director, National Museum of Western Art; Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo)
Archaeologist of Ancient Greece and Rome. Ph.D. in Literature.
1967 Graduated from the Department of Art History, the University of Tokyo.
1969-1972 Studied art history and archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome in the University of Rome.
Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, then Chair, Dean, and finally Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tokyo before becoming the Director of the National Museum of Western Art.
Excavated Roman villas in 1974-78, 1980-86, 1992-2003, and 2002 on.
Also interested in Pompeian murals and ancient Roman cities, and authored many books. Awarded “Porto Empedocle,” “Sebetia-Ter,” etc.
My message is:
This is an extremely timely symposium.
