Joho Chishiki Gakkaishi

Special Sections: The 12th Information and Knowledhe Forum "Quarry and Rebirth of Information"

Revival of ancient mural paintings - digital contents of decorated tombs -

Nobuaki KUCHITSU

2007 Volume 17 Issue 4 Pages 207-215
Published: December 08, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: December 21, 2007

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2964/jsik.17_4_207

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It is better to close mural paintings in burial tombs for their conservation. On the other hand, the value of the mural paintings can be realized only through their opening to public. Virtual reality techniques using computer graphics can contribute to solve that contradiction, i.e. "conservation or opening to public." In this paper, some examples of digital contents of decorated tombs will be introduced.

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A movement of digitizing, archiving and sharing archival information in Japan

Haruyoshi GOTOH

2007 Volume 17 Issue 4 Pages 217-224
Published: December 08, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: December 21, 2007

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2964/jsik.17_4_217

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This article surveys the trend or a movement of archival information in Japan from the viewpoint of digitizing, archiving and sharing. Referring to earlier studies, it points out the following trends: 1)unbalanced digitizing, 2)little consideration for long term data preservation, 3)effort toward explaining easiness to understand for archives users, 4)almost no consciousness of information sharing for archival finding aids. On the other hand, there is a new movement. This article also introduces the following: challenging application of EAD to Japanese archival finding aids, idea of online union catalog of archives in Japan, etc..

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Digitalization, Preservation and Application of Pre-war Textbook

Yuka EGUSA

2007 Volume 17 Issue 4 Pages 225-234
Published: December 08, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: December 21, 2007

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2964/jsik.17_4_225

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This paper reports digitalization and utilization of Japanese old textbook which was used before current Japanese textbook, "Sengo-Kentei-Kyokasho", has been used. As a case study, Library of Education's services for the old textbook collection are reported.

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Excavation from old books - Biohistory as regeneration, Network -

Tamaki YANO

2007 Volume 17 Issue 4 Pages 235-242
Published: December 08, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: December 21, 2007

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2964/jsik.17_4_235

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If we get appropriate data from a group of old books, we can scientifically explain the systematics of it. For mathematical treatment, we use not only character based data, but also graphical data. Here we will explain the case of "Painted scroll of thirty six famous poets", "Ikenobo Sennoh's book on flower arrangement" and "Tea caddys of egg plant type"..

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Quarry and Rebirth of Cultural Assets Information

Satoshi Tarashima

2007 Volume 17 Issue 4 Pages 243-250
Published: December 08, 2007
Released on J-STAGE: December 21, 2007

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2964/jsik.17_4_243

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For gathering and making rebirth of rich information from historical cultural assets, it is required to repeat long range investigations into them. This report introduces some examples of "quarries" from Japanese cultural assets, mainly manuscripts, and points out what kind of infomation have been scooped and overlooked through the history of investigations.

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