The scope of digital archives has expanded from the original materials centered on the cultural heritage of museums, libraries, and archives to the administrative materials of universities, national and local governments, and the industrial resources of companies. The media handled by digital archives are expanding from still images, videos, sounds, and texts to those that can be used for AI and data science, such as numerical values and 3D measurement data. On the other hand, digitization through various approaches to the target, such as who provides the data, who digitizes it, and how to respond to the improvement of digitizing equipment and technology, may improve the quality and utility value of the data. Therefore, learning digitization from various fields may be an extremely important factor for the development and development of digital archives.

For nearly 20 years since 2001, we have been conducting research and restoring traditional weaving tools and looms, especially restoring bamboo reeds, spinning bast fibers of ramie and hemp, and weaving them. We have conducted literature surveys, measurement survey and interviews with traditional craftsmen to create digital archive of such data and images for next generations. In 2020, due to COVID-19, we started online lectures instead of face-to-face method. This paper discusses, with examples, collecting data, creating digital archive, managing and utilizing such archive via online, from the perspective of "the parties involved in traditional techniques".

In recent years, a large amount of digitizing paper documents is growing handled on computers. Especially, digitizing paper documents are increasingly crucial in the Digital Archive field such as humanities and archives. This report provides tips for digitizing paper documents using a flatbed scanner for a small-scale digital archive project.

The author will introduce the cases of Documents of Kyoto Prefectural Government and Toji Hyakugo Monjo, in which the author was directly involved, and describe the issues involved in the creation of digital data and digital archives of historical materials, especially paper materials. For Documents of Kyoto Prefectural Government, digital data was created as part of the repair project, and for the oji Hyakugo Monjo, digital data and digital archives were created by utilizing the accumulated data. In addition, I will introduce the current trends in the cultural property restoration discussed in the discussions on disaster materials rescue, museums, cultural property protection, and historiography, and argue that digital archives have much to learn from them.

The purpose of this study is to leave a record of people’s lifestyle considerations and personal values during the COVID-19 pandemic both in Japan and internationally. This was achieved through data collection via a questionnaire using the snowball sampling method and designed to capture the thoughts of people both at home and abroad. We visualized the collected data via rudimentary methods such as word cloud, recorded the overall trends, and performed comparative analysis on the responses from the regions or languages with the highest number of respondents. As a result, it emerged that many respondents felt that their way of life and way of thinking were continuously evolving due to the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, when it came to topics related to politics and credibility of information sources, the data suggests that people's awareness and way of thinking differ depending on their geographic region and language.

Europeana 2020 is a forum for the presentation of digital archive practices in Europe. This year's conference was held online. Major reports were presented, especially on digital exhibitions in museums, educational applications, and others.