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

Prof. Hosoi, thank you for your time today. As one of the pioneers in digital game research in Japan, you have successfully expanded the "Game Archive"-project over the last two decades. Moreover, the Ritsumeikan Center for Games Studies (RCGS) has been established in 2011. Could you tell us about your recent updates?

Prof. Hosoi: There have been some positive developments in the last 4-5 years. Firstly, government funding from the Agency of Cultural Affairs has been increased for the RCGS which enabled us to create new rooms and facilities for game research and archiving - despite the notorious lack of space on Kinugasa campus.

Secondly, networking has been greatly expanded, especially with overseas institutions. While we only had a few connections with institutions in the US about five years ago, we have been able to form new alliances with overseas institutions, particularly in Europe.

The "Asahi Collection Kuchi-e Database" has just been published.

This is the result of the Joint Research Project "Infrastructure Development of Digital Research Environment for Modern Woodblock-printed Kuchi-e (Frontispieces)" which was adopted by the "Digital Archive Research Center for Japanese Cultural Resources" in 2018 / 2019.

Currently, the metadata items are not displayed properly yet, but maintenance is scheduled for the near future. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your understanding.

・Asahi Collection Kuchi-e Database → https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/search_tasahi.php

The 69th International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar next week on Wednesday, May 20, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

1. "近世後期京都俳壇における花供養会の位置 -- 芭蕉顕彰俳諧をめぐって (The Position of Hanakuyo-Kei in the Kyoto-Haidan through the 18th and 19th Centuries -- Concerning Basho-Kensho Haikai)" (in Japanese)

Speaker: Chiyoko TAKEUCHI (Research Representative, 2019 Adopted International Joint Research Project [International Joint Research to Utilize the Center's Facilities and Equipment] "A Study on Kyoto-Haikai through the 18th and 19th Centuries Concerning Hanakuyo")

Seminar handout (free to download)

2. "3次元計測で得られる大規模ポイントクラウドを用いた衝突可視化 (Collision Visualization Using Large-Scale Point Clouds Acquired by 3D Measurement)" (in Japanese)

Speaker: Weite LI (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Media Technology, College of Information Science and Engineering)

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Date: Wednesday, May 20, 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://youtu.be/-miJurTS2co