“Corona Archive@Kansai University” as a Practice of Digital Public History

Abstract

This article discusses the "Corona Archive@Kansai University", a joint project by researchers at the Kansai University Open Research Center for Asian Studies (KU-ORCAS) and others. "Corona Archive@Kansai University" is a digital public history project that adopts a userparticipatory community archiving method to collect records and memories of Kansai University's stakeholders at a historical turning point in the COVID-19 epidemic. This paper introduces the research field of public history and discusses the position of the "Corona Archive@Kansai University" in the global context, its characteristics, and the features of the materials it collects.