2019 Volume 3 Issue 4 Pages 383-387
Niigata University's research project “Niigata Regional Image Archive” is collaborating with local towns and villages to discover, organize, store, and digitize images stored in communities in the Niigata Prefecture. Furthermore, it was conceived as a way of reorganizing and analyzing the content, rethinking the social way of image media, and reviving image as a new social cultural heritage. The regional image archive is a device that breaks down the research situation that has ceased to function in the current major social transformation of digitalization. It proves what is at the foundation of social transformation through a boring survey of the local time layer by recursively digitizing, and bootstraps the community itself.
