A Study on the Social Significance of Regional Archives： Focusing on the Changing Role of AMANE Archives after the Disaster

Abstract

　In recent years, digital archives have been actively promoted as a means of preserving, accumulating, and passing on materials, as well as promoting their utilization. By disclosing information on materials and the institutions that hold them, it is possible to understand the existence of materials that may have been damaged after a natural disaster strikes. AMANE has been successively disclosing research and studies of regional materials since 2023 at AMANE Archives. AMANE Archives aims to collaborate with the local community through the sharing of a digital archiving environment. AMANE Archives currently has about 6,700 items on display, including materials from Wajima City, which suffered extensive damage in the Noto Peninsula earthquake of 2024. This paper discusses the relationship between possibly damaged materials and digital archives, and the social significance of local material archives, using AMANE Archives' role in providing information on materials in disaster areas after a disaster occurs as a case study.