Bibliographic Data for the Digital Archive of a Traditional Performing Art Material, Takemoto Yukahon

Abstract

The Shochiku Otani Library, which specializes in theater and film, created digital images and bibliographic data for its collection of Takemoto Kagamidayu's Narrative scripts (yukahon) in FY2015 as a project of the Association for the Preservation of Traditional Kabuki. This paper reports on the creation of bibliographic data in this project to digitize the Narrative scripts used by Takemoto Kagamitayu. The contents of the data, examples of input methods, and especially the support chart used for the input work will be explained in detail. As a whole, this report describes what kind of data is necessary for the operation of a digital archive of Kabuki performance materials.