Kōji Tanabe

Chair, Kyoto Culture Association (NPO)    Born in Kyoto in 1971. He was involved in the research and development of VFZ (Vector Format for Zooming) Museum Archive Format in cooperation with Digital Publishing Japan (Current Celartem Technology, Inc. JASDAQ Exchange) and C2RMF (Centre de Recherche et de Restrauration des Musées de France) in 1999. Also in that year, he established Solution, Inc., concluded an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) contract for the VFZ image format, and started a digital archive and content business.

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Prof. Masaaki Kashimura

慶應義塾大学文学部講師（非常勤）、慶應義塾大学SFC研究所上席所員（訪問）。 画像処理分野の研究から1997年に慶應義塾大学HUMIプロジェクトに参加し、貴重書のデジタル化手法の開発や、デジタル画像を用いた書誌学分野の研究に従事。その後、慶應義塾大学デジタルメディア・コンテンツ統合研究機構特別研究助教授などを務める傍ら、HUMIプロジェクトのテクニカル・ディレクター兼マネージャーとして、欧米の図書館と数々の貴重書デジタル化協同プロジェクトを実施し、グーテンベルク聖書をはじめとする世界的な貴重書のデジタル化を行ってきた。

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Prof. Neil Fraistat

Professor, and Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, University of Maryland. Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (2006-); Professor of English, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, (1991-); Associate Professor of English, Univ. of Maryland, College Park (1984-91); Assistant Professor of English, Univ. of Maryland (1979-84).

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Prof. Jieh Hsiang

Distinguished Professor, and Director, Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University. Jieh Hsiang received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1982 and taught at SUNY Stony Brook until 1998. He joint the Department of Computer Science of the National Taiwan University in 1993 and is currently a Distinguished Professor. He was NTU's University Librarian from 2002 to 2008, and has been the Director of the Research Center for Digital Humanities since 2008.

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Kozaburo Hachimura

Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University; Director, Art Research Center. Vice Director, the Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures, Ritsumeikan University. Group Leader of Digital Archiving Technology Group.

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Ryo Akama

Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan　University. History of the Japanese theater and Ukiyo-e, Digital archivist for Japanese art and culture.

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Keiji Yano

Professor, Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan University Visiting Professor, Centre for Spatial Information Science, Tokyo University Director of Historical GIS Group, DH-JAC, Ritsumeikan University

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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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Masaaki Kidachi

Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University Major in ethnoarchaeology and experimental archaeology. As the leader of the Kyoto Culture Research Group, I am conducting research on traditional crafts in Kyoto, including Yuzen textile dyeing and Kyoto pottery.

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