DAPCON Industry Award: “Records of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake 1995 Video Archive”. One year after the release of the Archive. For the citizens of Kobe to see the images in 400 years' time

Abstract

It has been almost a year since the Asahi Broadcasting Group released 38 hours of 1970 clips of footage of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. While there was a huge response on social media immediately after the release, as of October 1, 2020, not a single request for opt-out from concerned portrait rights holders has been received. It won the Digital Archive Promotion Consortium's 2020 Digital Archive Industry Award for Contribution for "addressing a social issue without direct consideration of business by the broadcaster. The following is an overview of the archive, an example of footage released to the public, and a report on future developments that are being undertaken to ensure its continuation over the long term.