TV stations and Broadcast Library have preserved a large quantity of programs and audiovisual materials. Those programs and materials are invaluable assets which record various events worldwide. Now digitizations from a videotape and a film are being pushed forward. I report archives of NHK(Japan Broadcast Corporation), TBS(Tokyo Broadcasting Systems) and Broadcast Library to examples what is being performed about an exhibition, the use, utilization from the preservation of the archive contents. I report it to secure preservation and the open present conditions and the public nature of archive contents what is a problem.

“Is this project to contribute to who and what ?” - That is a question to remember in the discussion on digital archives. According to the history of broadcasting, digitalization is shaking the space-time order that supports the public function. On the other hand, digital archives are expected to be useful for reconstructing the collectiveness of new society. In this paper, we will examine the element concept of television "region" and "visual expression" to support it. And then, we try to restore the environment where people can live through "Request for regional portrait rights", as an exercise archive theory through establishment of "travelogue tv program", case study of present Hokkaido Yubari city and Tohoku Tsunami stricken area.

ADEAC (A System of Digitalization and Exhibition for Archive Collections) is a platform system that will began operations in October 2008 by the TRC-ADEAC Inc. Currently, 88 institutions, such as libraries and universities, provide various historical materials through ADEAC. For example, Internet users can browse high-quality image data, and cross-retrieve for all text data on ADEAC for free. In this technical report, we will outline the improvement of the current ADEAC, not only Interface and accuracy retrieval functions but also IIIF and web accessibility, and introduce the case of the five representative institutions.

The Asahi Shimbun photo archives launched in 2010 to digitize about 20 million photos taken by the Asahi Shimbun and to promote the usage inside and outside the company. Television stations, textbook companies, publishers, etc. are the main business partners. As well as those domestic editorial usage, recently the pictures are used in corporate history publications, history chronology of prefectures and municipalities, and overseas media. Because digitization of photographs and bibliographic captioning require enormous labor and cost, expansion and development as a project become more important in order to continue the process. It syndicates the latest news photos and charts and the usage of video has also been growing over the last few years.

The author attempt to show methods for mapping of community archives, which are digital archives for community or by community or both. Community archives have own database of digital contents, so a mapping community archives to geographic information system (GIS), such as Google Maps, is considered graphical representation of database of database. This article indicates how express the position of community archives on GIS, using location information of each digital contents of community archives.

Seven years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, dozens of earthquake digital archives have been built. If archives had already been crated for past disasters, it is the first time that we see multiple groups building disaster digital archive for a single disaster. In principle, this article outlines the process of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the evolution during the seven years of restoration and reconstruction, and the construction of the earthquake disaster digital archive of the Great East Japan Earthquake. To discuss the issues surrounding digital archives, it presents the cases presented by the National Diet Library, Miyagi Prefecture Library, Harvard University, the University of Tsukuba, all of which are examined in this special issue.

This article details the evolution of the Japan Disasters Digital Archive (JDA) at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (JDA). Since its inception in March 2011, JDA has pursued the innovation of a collaborative and participatory disaster digital archive. In discussing this concept, we offer perspectives on the role the JDA model might play in further developing disaster archives in Japan. In addition, we report on our past and ongoing outreach activities aimed at creating and cultivating user communities in and outside of Japan, and ways our unique participatory features encourage users to discover and use existing digital records of the disasters as well as to generate new value by adding materials and interpretations to the archive. We conclude with thoughts on the challenges of disaster archiving in Japan and hopes for the Japan Society of Digital Archive.

HINAGIKU is a portal site enables comprehensive search of records and reports of the Great East Japan Earthquake disaster. In cooperation and collaboration with various organizations, HINAGIKU acts as a national archive to collect, preserve and share the information of the earthquake. It is connected with 47 archives both in Japan and overseas, and enables users to search and access metadata of approximately 3.8 million records. During the seven years that followed the earthquake, HINAGIKU has been promoting collaboration with various agencies while also focusing on disaster prevention learning etc. This article presents overview of the acquisition of distinctive records for HINAGIKU and describes the issues coming to light.

There exist many digital archives for disasters caused by Great East Japan Earthquake, and Japan's National Diet Library (NDL) provides a central portal for these archives named Hinagiku. The aim of this paper is to discuss issues regarding the improved usability of the digital archives. This paper first discusses usability issues based on the authors' experiences in their research projects mainly from the viewpoint of metadata in Open Data Environments. Then, it presents a few experimental results from the aggregation of archived contents within an archive as well as across archives. Lastly, it discusses the importance of the linking and aggregation of archived contents in order to improve the usability of the digital archives of disaster resources.

On 15th June 2015, the Miyagi Prefectural Library opened "Great East Japan Earthquake Archive Miyagi" which is a digital archive of the earthquake disaster in cooperation with all the municipalities in the prefecture. Archive Miyagi is responsible for the general affairs related to the operation of the site by the Miyagi Prefecture Library, and also cooperative local governments that cooperate with the administration, such as general affairs, disaster prevention, public relations, lifelong learning, etc. It consists of affiliation. In this paper, we describe the specific advantages of what the prefecture did, and the problems that occurred in the management situation and the change of the environment from the construction to the present, with a part of the architectural background and method of the Archive Miyagi.

Due to the diversification of "digital archive", there is a possibility that non-expert citizens who used to be on the user side will tackle archiving positively. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of "multi-dimensional digital archives" such as Hiroshima Archive, and also their organic production environment as a new approach to citizen participation in digital archiving. We discuss the impact of digital archives on the society from the practices, and propose "participatory digital archives" as a new research area of digital archive.

Digital Archives are expected to play an important role in supporting the knowledge-based society but there are numerous issues that need to be considered. This paper discusses educating digital archives specialists who must develop, manage or use digital archives materials. The paper reviews how universities and Japanese Certification Board for Digital Archivist have educated digital archivists and also looks at specific cases in Western countries (United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia). The paper shows that education at universities or in-service training undertaken by related institutions and associations are necessary to ensure the quality of digital archives specialists. It also underlines the importance of expanding career paths such as hiring and improving labor conditions for digital archivists by obtaining feedback from places where digital archives are managed and utilized.

EuropeanaTech is a meeting for engineers and developers from cultural institutions, research institutes, companies etc. participating in Europeana to share their latest development and achievement. At this year's meeting in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the main topics were IIIF, Wikidata, and AI (artificial intelligence). Several presentations on transcription and OCR for manuscripts were also seen.