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The challenges and obstacles created by the COVID-19 pandemic have accentuated the importance of digital materials that are easily discovered and used. In 2020, in the midst of this unprecedented crisis, the CDDP Taskforce has initiated the CDDP Video Series with funding support from the Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO), hoping to assist scholars and librarians in Japanese Studies to engage with digital scholarship. The CDDP Video Series offers instructional videos on freely available resources and cutting-edge projects related to Japanese Studies, highlighting useful tools and best practices.
Please give feedback on the CDDP Video Series here.
To facilitate your selection of the video to watch, we have supplied the following tags of focus to each presentation:
Please click on one of the options below to see presentations specific to each focus area.
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A: Discover |
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Discover | How to Use Japan Search: Basic Search | National Diet Library | An introduction to coverage of the national portal site, Japan Search, its search functions, filters, and galleries | ||
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Study, Build, Participate, Collaborate, Discover | How to use Japan Search: My Note | National Diet Library | An introduction to My Note, which allows one to curate, annotate, export and import selected materials in CSV, XLSL, and JSON formats into personal collections | Japan Search | |
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Discover, Build | Cultural Japan: An Interview with Dr. Akihiko Takano of the National Institute of Informatics | Akihiko Takano (National Institute of Informatics) | An interview with Dr. Takano in which he describes the vision behind Cultural Japan, its content and functions | Cultural Japan | 2021 猪本版・ニャーンズコレクション |
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Participate, Collaborate, Discover | Cultural Japan: Self museum | Satoru Nakamura (University of Tokyo) | An introduction to how to create a self museum for selected digitized images in the Cultural Japan interface | ||
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Discover, Study | NIJL Database: Part I | Jeffrey Knott (National Institute of Japanese Literature) | An introduction to how to use NIJL's Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books database effectively |
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Discover, Study | NIJL Database: Part II | Jeffrey Knott (National Institute of Japanese Literature) | An introduction to how to use NIJL's Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books database effectively |
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B: Collaborate & Build |
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Build, Study | 100 Classical Kana Words in Motion: A Webpage and Smartphone Apps | X. Jie Yang (University of Calgary) | An explanation of how the website and mobile application were created using a digital pen and Glide software | Glide; digital pen; e-Kokuho | 100 Classical Kana Words in Motion; Classical Kana |
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Build, Study | A Digital Exhibit: Tale of Lady Karaito (Karaito Sōshi) | X. Jie Yang (University of Calgary) | An example of the possibilities afforded by Omeka IIIF tool kit for creating an online exhibit | Omeka; Mirador; Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works (NIJL) | A Digital Exhibit: Tale of Lady Karaito (Karaito Sōshi) |
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Build, Study | Introduction to Spotlight: Digital Showcases for Research and Teaching | Catherine A. Aster (Stanford University) | An exploration of the functions afforded by Spotlight for creating online exhibits | Spotlight | Tokyo Over Time; Travel Through Time |
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Build, Study | Listen to a Graphic Novel: Tale of Revenge: A Real Heroine | X. Jie Yang (University of Calgary) | An example of using Adobe Premiere, and Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing to improve access to kibyoshi | Adobe Photoshop & Premiere; Audacity; Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing | 黄表紙『敵討義女英』; Tale of Revenge: A Real Heroine (A graphic novel) (Japanese Edition) |
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Build, Study | Popular Protest in Post War Japan: The Antiwar Art of Shikoku Gorō | Ann Sherif (Oberlin College) | An exploration of the functions afforded by Scalar for creating an online exhibit | Scalar | Popular Protest in Post War Japan: The Antiwar Art of Shikoku Gorō |
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Build, Study | Digital Mapping and Presentation Tools: Fragments of the Incendiary Bombing of Japan | Dylan Z. Siegel (Yale University) | An example of using ArcGIS Online, ArcMap, and StoryMaps tools, together with online historical sources for digital presentation of research | ArcGIS Online, ArcMap, StoryMaps | Fragments of the Incendiary Bombing of Japan |
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Build, Study | Custom-Built Online Research Database with 'My Database' |
Risako Hirano (Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University) |
A platform that allows you to build a database tailored to your individual research needs using materials from the ARC's portal databases and your own materials | My Database (Databases) | Applying for International Joint Research to Utilize the ARC’s Database System |
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Discover, Build, Participate, Collaborate | Japan Disasters Digital Archive |
Ton-Nu Nguyen-Dinh (Japan Digital Research Center, Harvard University) |
How to search JDA; How to contribute items; How to create a collection | Japan Disasters Digital Archive (Harvard University) | |
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C: Participate & Study |
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Participate, Study | Kuronet Kuzushiji Recognition: IIIF Curation Viewer | Tarin Clanuwat (ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities) | An introduction to Kuronet Recognition Service (AI OCR), which uses object detection AI to transcribe kuzushiji into modern characters and allows users to view kuzushiji and modern characters in a text simultaneously | Kuronet くずし字認識サービス (AI OCR); CODH datasets; IIIF Curation Viewer | Kuronet くずし字認識サービス (AI OCR) |
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Participate, Collaborate, Study | Minna de Honkoku: A Crowdsourced Transcription Platform for Historical Japanese Documents | Yuta Hashimoto (National Museum of Japanese History) | An introduction to how to contribute to the crowdsourced transcription platform, Minna de Honkoku, its collaboration feature for mutual support among users learning kuzushiji, its AI programs for reading kuzushiji characters, and how to upload your own collections of historical documents |
みんなで翻刻; AI Kuzushiji Recognition (CODH & Toppan, Inc.); Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works (NIJL); National Diet Library Digital Collections |
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Participate, Collaborate, Study, Build | The Ten Thousand Rooms Project | Nick Frisch (Yale University) | An explanation of how to create a collaborative annotation space in the platform | Blood, Tears and Samurai Love: Reading a Treasure from Yale's Beinecke Collection | |
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Participate, Study | SAT Daizōkyō Text Database | Kiyonori Nagasaki (International Institute for Digital Humanities) | A comprehensive digital database for Buddhist scriptures and images | Database Home | |
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Participate, Study | ARC Kuzushiji Transcription Support and Archiving System | Emily (Yinzi) Li (Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University) | The Early Japanese Books Portal Database, operated by ARC, includes an AI-enabled kuzushiji (calligraphy) transcription support system. | Early Japanese Books Portal Database (includes ARC Kuzushiji Transcription Support System) | Project Application Link |
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D: CDDP Award Winners |
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Discover, Study, CDDP Award Winner (2021) | Using Japan Search: The Nobi Earthquake Disaster of 1891 | Dylan Siegel (Yale University) | An example of the use of Japan Search for graduate research | Japan Search | |
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Discover, Build, Collaborate, CDDP Award Winner (2021) | Unpinning History: A Digital Exhibit from USC Libraries | Rebecca Corbett (University of Southern California) | An overview of a student curated digital exhibit using a library collection of early 20th century Japanese posters. Features include ability for others to remix and curate their own exhibit. | Scalar | |
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Discover, Build, Collaborate, CDDP Award Winner (2022-23) |
Film Cycle Project: Learning about Japan through Digital Archive Technology |
Osamu Sahara, Akihiro Tsukamoto, and Film Cycle Project Team (Tokushima University) | An introduction to the Film Cycle Project, an attempt to recover and revitalize local histories using vintage videos and photos from 1930s-80s | ArcGIS StoryMaps, colorization | |
100 Classical Kana Words in Motion: A Webpage and Smartphone Apps (X. Jie Yang, University of Calgary)
A Digital Exhibit: Tale of Lady Karaito (Karaito Soshi) (X. Jie Yang, University of Calgary)
Introduction to Spotlight: Digital showcases for research and teaching Featuring - Tokyo Over Time and Travel Through Time: Japan (Catherine A. Aster, Stanford University)
Kuronet Kuzushiji Recognition: IIIF Curation Viewer / Tarin Clanuwat (ROIS-DS Center for Open Data in the Humanities)
Alex Lamb, Tarin Clanuwat, and Asanobu Kitamoto, "KuroNet: Regularized Residual U-Nets for End-to-End Kuzushiji Character Recognition", SN Computer Science, Vol. 1, No. 177, pp. 1-15, doi:10.1007/s42979-020-00186-z, 2020年5月 (in English)
Tarin Clanuwat, Alex Lamb, Asanobu Kitamoto, "KuroNet: Pre-Modern Japanese Kuzushiji Character Recognition with Deep Learning", 15th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2019), pp. (in press), arXiv:1910.09433, 2019年9月
Listen to a Graphic Novel: Tale of Revenge: A Real Heroine (X. Jie Yang, University of Calgary)
Minna de Honkoku: A Crowdsourced Transcription Platform for Historical Japanese Documents / Yuta Hashimoto (National Museum of Japanese History)
