Lots and lots of age-old streets, villages, and houses, together with the lifestyles of their inhabitants are rapidly vanishing all across this country.
Therefore the importance of preserving photographs, sketches, diagrams, and documents that have recorded these treasures and the people’s way of living here is compelling ----urgent, in terms of folklore studies.
As we all know, this country is abundant in such invaluable records.
The best method so far for the preservation is of these digitalization of relevant materials storing digitally on hard disc or CD ROM, such as that of utilizing photo-disc digital images, because once digitalized, images deteriorate much less and slower than ever.
This report focuses on digitalized archive that has been established on the database of The Japan Institute of Folk House, and technically compares analog data with digitalized data, which is highly suitable for the particular purpose in such a warm and humid country as Japan.
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