The ARC Days 2021 were held on July 30 & 31, 2021
The ARC Days were held on July 30 (Fri) & 31 (Sat), 2021. It is an annual event where the faculty members of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, and international collaborative researchers whose projects have been adopted by the International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC) introduce their research projects in Digital Humanities (DH) in individual presentations.
To prevent the spread of COVID-19, this event was held online via Zoom and broadcasted live on YouTube.
Organizer: International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC), Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University and Program for Supporting Research Center Formation, Ritsumeikan University
Program
| DAY1 Friday, 30 July 2021 13:00-17:05 | |||
| 13:00-13:05 | Opening Remarks (Koichi HOSOI, Director, ARC) | ||
| 13:05-14:05 | Session 1 （60 min) [In a section, each project leader will introduce the projects including Q&As within 15 minutes. We will take questions from the participants via Zoom and YouTube.] |
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| 1. | A System Development Project for Exhibiting Images such as Ukiyo-e through the Means of Games Project leader: Ruck THAWONMAS, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU |
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| 2. | Construction of Spatiotemporal Database with Old Photos, Postcards & Visual Footages to Narrate the Modern City Project leader: Naomi KAWASUMI, Associate Professor, College of Letters, RU |
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| 3. | Digital Archiving of Acoustics with the Purpose of Protection of Cultural Properties Project leader: Takanobu NISHIURA, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU |
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| 4. | "Generation Z" Web Content Archiving Project Project leader: Yumi TAKENAKA, Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, RU |
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| 14:05-14:15 | Break | ||
| 14:15-15:15 | Session 2（60min） | ||
| 5. | 【iJAC】Development of Contents Processing Methods for Archiving "How to Create" and "How to Enjoy" Towards Comics and Animes Project leader: Ryosuke YAMANISHI, Associate Professor, Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University |
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| 6. | 【iJAC】Building a GIS Database of Living Space Based on Oral History and Documents: Focusing on Old Roadside Settlements in Ritto City, Shiga Project leader：Yoshinori KASAI, Associate Professor,Faculty of Law, Department of Political Science, Keio University |
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| 7. | 【iJAC】Digital Archiving & Compilation about the Upland Settlements all over Japan Project leader: Hideto MORIOKOA, Visiting Researcher, The Paleological Association of Japan, Inc. Presenter: Tomoyuki USAMI, Assistant Professor, College of Letters, RU |
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| 8. | 【iJAC】Expanding the Study of Japanese Photography and Gender: Modules for Teaching and Public Access Project leader: Kelly Midori McCormick (Video), Assistant Professor, History Department, University of British Columbia |
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| 15:15-15:25 | Break | ||
| 15:25-16:10 | Session 3（45min） | ||
| 9. | Collaborative Project "Sonic Extraction from Music Records With No Contact" Project leader: Takanobu NISHIURA, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU （Co-Researchers: Ryo AKAMA, Professor, College of Letters, RU Sora UEDA, Technical Support Board, ARC, RU) |
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| 10. | Play between Creativity and Learning II Project leader: Mitsuyuki INABA, Professor, College of Policy Science, RU |
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| 11. | Kyoto Street Culture Archive: Memories of the Pop Culture Featuring the Streets, and their Visualization Project leader: Shinya SAITO, Associate Professor, College of Image Arts and Sciences, RU |
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| 16:10-16:20 | Break | ||
| 16:20-17:05 | Session 4（45min） | ||
| 12. | 【iJAC】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, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC) |
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| 13. | 【iJAC】Digitisation of the British Museum's Japanese Painting Collection: Focusing on Late Edo period Kyoto-Osaka Painted Works Project leader : Akiko YANO, Mitsubishi Corporation Curator (Japanese Collections), The British Museum |
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| 14. | 【iJAC】Tracing the Reception of Japanese Art in the West: Case Study of Freiburg im Breisgau Project leader : Hans Bjarne Thomsen, Professor, University of Zurich |
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| 17:05-17:15 | Notice from the Secretariat & Information on Online Networking | ||
| 17:15-17:30 | Break | ||
| 17:30 | Online Networking | ||
| DAY 2 Saturday, 31 July, 2021 10:00-16:40 | |||
| 10:00-11:00 | Session 5 （60min） WORKSHOP by Technical Support Board, Art Research Center (Mitsuhiro TSUDA, Riku TONO, Takaaki KANEKO, Ryo AKAMA ) |
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| 11:00-11:10 | Break | ||
| 11:10-12:10 | Special Session（60min） Special Lecture "Current Situation and Issues in Digital Archives" Lecturer : Yukihiro FUKUSHIMA, Associate professor, Faculty of Letters, Department of Humanities and Social Science (Library and Information Science), Keio University  → Lecture handouts (free to download) |
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| 12:10-13:30 | Break | ||
| 13:30-14:30 | Session 6 (60min) [In a section, each project leader will introduce the projects including Q&As within 15 minutes. We will take questions from the participants via Zoom and YouTube.] |
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| 15. | 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 Presenter:Hitomi MOHRI, Graduate School of Letters, RU Presenter: Yuji MIYATA, Graduate School of Letters, RU Presenter: Toshinari TSUJI, Graduate School of Letters, RU |
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| 16. | Project of Developing Evaluation Datasets for ARC Collection Databases Project leader: Akira MAEDA, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU Presenter: Yuting SONG, Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU Presenter: Kangying LI, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, RU |
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| 17. | Collaborative Project: Construction of Digital Archive to Make it Possible to Play with "Kyoto Art and Culture" through AI and Gaming system Project leader: Shinya SAITO, Associate Professor, College of Image Arts and Sciences, RU Co-Researchers: Ruck THAWONMAS, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU Naomi KAWASUMI, Associate Professor, College of Letters, RU Presenter: Riku OKADA, Graduate School of Image Arts, RU |
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| 18. | The Real and Virtual Exhibition of Nagae Family Residence under the Theme "Play" Project leader: Hirotaka SATO, Assistant Professor, College of Letters, RU |
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| 14:30-14:40 | Break | ||
| 14:40-15:25 | Session 7（45min） | ||
| 19. | 【iJAC】Construction of 3D Model Database of Japanese Armor in the Possession of Tokushima City Tokushima Castle Museum Project leader: Akihiro TSUKAMOTO, Associate Professor, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Tokushima University |
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| 20. | 【iJAC】Qaitʼbay Citadel (1477-1479): Visualizing the Main Coastal Fortification of Medieval Alexandria, Egypt Project leader: Mohamed Soliman, JSPS International Research Fellow, DMUCH-RU |
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| 21. | 【iJAC】 Digital Database and Visualization of Borobudur Maritime Landscape and Japan-Indonesia Maritime Connection Project leader: Fadjar I. Thufail, Researcher, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) |
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| 15:25-15:30 | Break | ||
| 15:30-16:15 | Session 8（45min） | ||
| 22. | Collaborative Project : Play with "Ukiyo-e" Project leader: Akira MAEDA, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU Co-Researcher: Ryo AKAMA, Professor, College of Letters, RU Presenter: Jiayun WANG, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, RU Presenter: Shiori TOTSUKA, Graduate School of Letters, RU |
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| 23. | Play and Discovery in Kanji Characters Project leader: Lin MENG, Associate Professor, College of Image Arts and Sciences, RU |
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| 24. | Intellectual Production through the Linkage of Large-scale Cultural Information from the Edo to Meiji and Taisho periods Project leader: Ryo AKAMA, Professor, College of Letters, RU |
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| 16:15-16:30 | Q&A Session | ||
| 16:30-16:40 | Closing Remarks (Ryo AKAMA, Deputy Director , ARC) | ||