2018 Volume 2 Issue 4 Pages 342-346
Seven years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, dozens of earthquake digital archives have been built. If archives had already been crated for past disasters, it is the first time that we see multiple groups building disaster digital archive for a single disaster. In principle, this article outlines the process of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the evolution during the seven years of restoration and reconstruction, and the construction of the earthquake disaster digital archive of the Great East Japan Earthquake. To discuss the issues surrounding digital archives, it presents the cases presented by the National Diet Library, Miyagi Prefecture Library, Harvard University, the University of Tsukuba, all of which are examined in this special issue.
