A Study in communal image archive on web: focused on sustainability of digital archives

Abstract

This is a study of questionnaire survey on a service of "communal image archives" in 2008. And we compared the services within 2008 and 2011, investigated their sustainability and availability. From this study it become clear that. 1) Sometimes less updating website also lack the access analysis. 2) There is a change in the problem of management of digital archive from previous research in 2004 to our survey in 2008. 3) Digital archives placed by local government disappear easily than which placed by the promotion organization such as NPO.