Events

Jointly organized by Asia Research Institute, and NUS Libraries, National University of Singapore.

CHAIRPERSON

Dr Stefan Huebner, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

ABSTRACT

The Japan Digital Research Center (JDRC) of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies was established in 2017 for the purpose of developing new modes of support and collaboration amongst librarians, faculty, and students working in an increasingly digitized and networked environment. The JDRC serves as the home for two trailblazing projects in the Japan digital research community: the Constitutional Revision Research Project and the Japan Disasters Digital Archive. Both projects have an initial shared history in web archiving, and each was launched out of an immediate perception of need: the desire to capture, preserve, and share born-digital materials for a future generation of scholars and students.

Each project has evolved and been rebuilt multiple times over the course of their 12 and 18-year history, and each will be showcased and discussed individually – highlighting both their unique contributions and challenges. Meeting both the challenges and opportunities of multilingual digital scholarship is a focus of the Japan Digital Research Center, and while it remains important to share and make accessible these digital projects, it is equally necessary to share the many lessons and remaining obstacles in the path ahead. Supporting innovative projects and emerging scholarship involves a larger conversation about sustainability; scope and responsibility; library partnerships; methods for choosing projects; as well as how to end and preserve a digital project. It will take faculty, technology support, and many dedicated partners to figure out the next steps together.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Katherine Matsuura is the Japan Digital Scholarship Librarian of the Japan Digital Research Center at Harvard University. She plays a key role in working with the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Harvard University Library to further develop support for both users and creators of digital projects. She holds advanced degrees from Yale University, Duke University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the fields of history, East Asian studies, and library and information science.

REGISTRATION

Registration is closed, and instructions on how to participate in this hybrid event has been sent out to registered attendees. Please write to aritm@nus.edu.sg if you would like to attend the talk.