The main purpose of the special feature "The Future of Digital Archives and Okinawa" (in relation to last year's conference), the issues raised, and an introduction to each issue.

The women's hands were covered with "irezumi" or tatoo, which was "the symbol of women's longing. One day, such a normal day turned around 180° and turned evil. Those who had it in their hands were arrested by the police, and they began to feel ashamed of having it in their hands. In 1899, a ban was issued and the "hajichi", a name for irezumi in Okinawa, disappeared from the hands of Okinawan women. This paper considers the need for a digital archive of this lost culture of Okinawa.

Kamejiro SENAGA (1907-2001) was a politician loved by the Okinawan people regardless of party affiliation. Chihiro Uchimura (Kamejiro's second daughter), the director of the museum, talks about the 10-year efforts of the museum, "Fukutsukan (The Museum of Fortitude): Kamejiro SENAGA and the People's Archives," which preserves and exhibits a vast collection of his memoirs, documents, and other materials, and the importance of the "people's archives".

The Okinawa Prefectural Library has started the World Uchinanchu (Okinawan) Project since 2018 which includes providing a genealogical reference service with overseas Okinawan descendants, collecting documents and publications about Okinawan diaspora and holding exhibitions about it. This paper introduces the digital archive project, especially for Okinawa Migration Record Database and collecting resources on Okinawan migration, which aims to develop the World Uchinanchu network over geographical and linguistic barriers.

A report on Okinawa's oldest wooden theater, the Shuri Theater. We have gathered various experts such as architecture and industrial history. It will be released as a digital archive in the future.

In order to make the construction and circulation of digital knowledge sustainable, an industrialization perspective is essential. For this purpose, it is necessary to share various DA-related activities and technologies, and furthermore, to have a bird's-eye view of activities and issues related to DA industrialization. This paper describes an overview of the DA Short Talks, which have been held once a month since FY2022 with these motivations in mind.

It has been a year since “DA Short Talks” has been held. The features of these talks include monthly regular sessions and archived presentation videos. Over the course of a year, the operation process has become standardized, enabling smooth organization from preparation to execution. The authors have taken on the responsibility of liaising with presenters, archiving videos and documents, and managing the website. This article shares the methods used in organizing “DA Short Talks”, focusing on remote meetings and utilizing existing web tools. The authors hope that sharing these operational methods will contribute to various activities related to the promotion of digital archives.

Digital Archives (DA) are a blend of public and private elements, involving individuals with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. To foster information sharing and mutual understanding in this field, DA Short Talks have been organized, featuring lectures and discussions. We have used text analysis methods to extract various issues related to the industrialization of DA from the content of these Short Talks, presenting them as a two-dimensional map. Each Talk is positioned on the map and made available as web content on the subcommittee's website, ensuring widespread access to the results. Additionally, links to the presentation materials archive are provided. We report on this initiative with the hope that DA Short Talks will serve as a common platform for discussion and collaboration.

By sorting out the viewers' impressions, we were able to reconfirm the high level of viewer satisfaction for DA short talks and the high needs from a wide range of requests for lectures. On the other hand, it is difficult to increase the number of participants by attracting customers so far, and there are reflections that there is little use of archived videos, so we will consider and implement measures. In addition, we plan to incorporate measures to encourage collaboration between researchers and industry, and to start new activities.

Kobe Univesity Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster Materials Collection has released one video and 189 material images for release to the public on three occasions since January 2021. These are earthquake-related images filmed by Sun TV immediately after the Kobe Earthquake. Portrait rights, which had been an obstacle to the release of the image, were determined using the "Portrait Rights Guidelines" of the Society of Digital Archivists of Japan. As a result of this study, it was found that if the guidelines are used and points are carefully calculated, the barrier due to portrait rights for most images can be overcome.

This paper proposes secondary use conditions that promote the utilization of digital archive resources. For this purpose, we surveyed the secondary use conditions of the archives of Japan Search and ADEAC. The results showed that 38.9% and 57.9% of archives set conditions that inhibit utilization. Considering this issue, workshops on the conversion of resources into learning materials by institutions and teachers are practiced. As a result, in the case of Sakata City, the conditions were changed to permit school use without restrictions. From the above, the study suggests the following; (1) Many institutions have set secondary use conditions that are a disincentive to utilization, and (2) It was suggested that institutions and users can potentially promote the openness of resources through utilization-based collaboration.

In recent years, public libraries have accelerated their efforts toward digital archiving as they diversify their services. It is common for public libraries to digitize materials in their collections that have already been systematically organized. The Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library, to which the author belongs, first made its digitized materials available on its website in 1998, and began offering a full-fledged digital archive in 2010. The author will review the transition of the digital archive and report on a case study. Based on the case study, the author will discuss digital archiving in public libraries, and analyze the current status and issues from both service and system perspectives.