For Doing "History" in the Future : Digital Public History under the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

　The society in Japan is undergoing major changes due to the pandemic of the COVID-19. How will the academic research field change after the COVID-19, and how will open science change? The task assigned to the author is to report on practical activities related to this issue from the standpoint of a historical researcher. We discuss two cases in which the author was involved in the topic of open science movement for historical scholarship under the COVID-19 pandemic: the first is about the community digital archive project "Corona Archive @ Kansai University", and the second is about the activities of the Special Committee for Young Scholars of the Japanese Historical Association for making historical papers open access through the Digital Collection of the National Diet Library.