National Diet Libraryʼs Efforts to Build the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive

Abstract

The National Diet Library（NDL）is undertaking “the National Diet Library Great East Japan Earthquake archive”project. The archive will acquire and preserve disaster records of the Great East Japan Earthquake,local records before the quake, records of the recovery process, and records of past earthquakes, tsunamis, and nuclear power plant accidents. The archive is expected to contribute to nation­wide cooperation, as it calls upon other institutions to conduct acquisition/preservation exercises which it will support in collecting data and search for information such as the location of records. This paper describes the objectives, the basic philosophy, the measure of records construction, and the outline of the NDL Great East Japan Earthquake archive, and the challenges that we face.