Japanese and Asian Historical Resources in the Digital Age

Overall picture of the collaboration between the LOD, the International Image Interoperability Framework, and the Text Encoding Initiative.

Top Page of Knowledgebase of Historical Resources in Institutes (khirin).

Overlaying the location of historical resources and the predicted disaster area.

Overlaying the location of historical resources and the predicted disaster area.

An overview of the UTokyo Digital Archives Project. The UTokyo Digital Archives Development Project has focused on the following activities in order to facilitate the opening up of academic assets to the public:
・Promoting the digitization of academic assets
・Supporting the publishing of digitized academic assets
・The development of a cross-search portal system

UTokyo Academic Archives Portal and Japan Search. UTokyo Academic Archives Portal was released in June 2019, and we started to collaborate with Japan Search from November 2019.

Functions provided in the Archives Repository. UTokyo Academic Archives Repositry provides the following functions for Promoting and Supporting the Active Usage of Academic Assets:
・API
・Open data
・Linked Open Data
・International Standards

Examples of utilizing search materials in the Tanaka Yoshio, Natural History Collection and the Kunshujo collection. Tanaka Yoshio, Natural History Collection, has enabled searchers to browse the Kunshujo collection on the Internet. However, it is still not possible to retrieve materials attached to each page of the scrapbook with search queries.

The system development flow. The system to retrieve materials attached to each page of the scrapbook was developed based on the following steps:
・Data Creation: Converting Catalog Data to RDF, Identifying Pasted Materials through Annotation
・Application Development

The interface utilized to create annotations with Omeka Classic. The system for creating annotations was developed using the Omeka Classic and the plug-in IIIF Toolkit. This system provided functions such as importing images from IIIF manifests and adding and saving annotations using Mirador.

Interface for searching and displaying pasted materials. An example of a search interface. It displays a list of pasted materials, and each item is linked to IIIF Curation Player, enabling the browsing of IIIF images. This confirmed that the application could enable users to browse the Kunshujo collection with pasted materials as browsing units.

Screenshot of Digital Fujikawa–History of Medicine in Japan

Links to the SAT Daizōkyō Database from a bibliography page on the Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive

The number of pages and hits of the digital archive from October 2017 to November 2018. The number of pages reflects accesses to HTML, PHP, and ASP files. In contrast, the number of hits additionally reflects accesses to all files, including CSS, image, and Java Script files, which are requested as a result of loading a page. The vertical axis on the left and right corresponds to the number of hits and the number of pages, respectively.

Web portal view of the Indonesia Central Cultural Database, by Data Pokok Kebudayaan (2020)

Visual information from “Benda,” or object categories, by Data Pokok Kebudayaan (2020)

Visual information from categories of “Benda,” or objects, by Sistem Registrasi Nasional Cagar Budaya (2020)

Information for individual objects, by Sistem Registrasi Nasional Cagar Budaya (2020)

Intangible cultural-heritage distribution spread in Indonesia, by Warisan Budaya Takbenda Indonesia (2020)

Data on the traditional skill of Kasongan pottery, by Warisan Budaya Takbenda Indonesia (2020)