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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c/o Research Office (Kinugasa)
Shugakukan, 2nd Fl., Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University
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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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November 19 (sat.) Keynote Speech 1

Makoto Nagao/President, National Diet Library (NDL)

The National Diet Library’s Efforts on Creating a Digital Library

      The National Diet Library, or NDL, is the only national library in Japan. Under the Legal Deposit System, all books published in Japan are collected, stored, and made available for use. While our first priority is to assist the National Diet, we also provide a wide variety of services to the general public. There are approximately 37.5 million items in the NDL collection. These include roughly 9.7 million books and 9.7 million magazine volumes, as well as newspapers, Japanese classics, microfilm, records, and more.

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November 19 (sat.) Invited Speech 1

Kinda Akihiro（President, National Institutes for Humanities）

NIHU’s Project to Promote Resource Sharing

      Digital technology has become both an integral tool and method for the humanities, not least because of the convenience gained from digitalizing resources. In particular, the digitalization of extremely rare documents – especially materials such as old maps that vary in shape and form, making them difficult to view, store, and organize – has proven invaluable for research and education.

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November 19 (sat.) Keynote Speech 2

Simon C. Lin /Principle Investigator (PI) of International Collaboration and Promotion of Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Project, TELDAP

From Digital Archives to Digital Humanities

      Taiwan, with the population of 23 million and more than 46,000 species of flora and fauna, is a country featured cultural diversity as well as biodiversity [1]. From the cultural diversity perspective, one could find the fusion of mixed cultures such as traditional Chinese culture, aboriginal culture, Japanese culture, Western culture etc. in Taiwan’s society. From the biodiversity perspective, there are extraordinarily abundant biodiversity resources and many endemic species in Taiwan. Supported by Taiwan National Science Council (NSC), the National Digital Archives Program (NDAP) was officially launched in 2002 in order to digitally archive Taiwan’s unique cultural resources and the rich biodiversity. In the first phase (2002-2007), the NDAP has generated enormous collection for Taiwan Digital Archives with over 3 million items of digitalized content from Anthropology to Zoology. To further increase their use, the NDAP merged with the National e-Learning Program and formed the new Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP) [2] in 2008. In phase II (2008-2012), with an overall budget of US$ 247 million, TELDAP is composed of eight core division projects, they are: Content, Technology, Platform, Applications, Industries, Education, Language Learning and International Collaboration.

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November 20 (sun.) Panel 1: Keynote Speech 3

Joe Earle（Vice-President, and Director, Japan Society Gallery at Japan Society）

Digitization in an Age of Austerity

The Japanese Print Access and Documentation Project (JPADP) digitized and rehoused 53,000 prints in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston between 2005 and 2010 and by 2015 they will be all be available online with substantial metadata in both English and Japanese.

The JPADP started before the economic calamity of fall 2008 and the ongoing global crisis, but its mode of execution can serve as a model for future projects that will be carried out in an age of austerity. If such projects are to enjoy public or private support in future, the resulting assets (images and metadata) need to appeal to the broadest possible public.

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November 20 (sun.) Panel 1: Invited Speakers

Alfred Haft（Project Curator, Japanese Section, Department of Asia British Museum）

Advanced Digital Technology at the British Museum

In October 2007, the British Museum began making its collection database available to the general public through the museum’s website. At that time, anyone accessing the website could learn directly about 257,000 different objects (mostly prints and drawings), around half of which had accompanying images.Since then, with the support of the Information Technology department, and the participation of curators museum-wide, the number of digitally catalogued objects hasincreased nearly eightfold.As a custodian of the past, the museum has embraced the technologies of the present, because these technologies can make the past alive and available to more people worldwidethan ever before: around 5.7 million visitors walked through the doors of the museum in the twelve months from April 2009 to April 2010; visitors traversed the museum’s webportal almost as many times in March of this year alone.
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