Greetings from the Director

Call for Joint Research Projects!
At the ARC-iJAC, we are determined to promote international distribution of Japanese art and cultural
resources through digital archives and to provide an environment for building an online research space. For
these purposes, we are inviting applications for digital humanities joint research projects under two categories.
It is our hope that, by having more researchers and research organizations use the ARC-iJAC services, it will
enrich the digital research environment, make research activities more efficient, save on research costs, andhelp expand the research community.

Professor Koichi Hosoi
Director, Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
Professor, College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University

At the ARC we have been working to make digital archives more widely
available since 2014 after we were designated the Digital Archive
Research Center for Japanese Cultural Resources by the Ministryof Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). InOctober 2019, the ARC was designated by the same ministry as theInternational Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art andCulture (ARC-iJAC). With such recognitions we endeavor to further
internationalize our research activities, as well as to enhance ourfunctions as a hub for joint research on Japanese culture and art thattranscends disciplines and geographic boundaries. We also aim tobecome an international center for digital humanities research where
we can implement high-level research activities, provide training andassistance to young researchers, and contribute to the diffusion andeducation of art and culture.

Category 1

International Joint Research with research fundopen toapplications
once a year

International Fixed Theme Projects
International Joint Research related to three themes set by the ARC.

International Open Theme Projects
Applicants set their own research themes to conduct International Joint Research by utilizing the ARC’s digital
research resources and other materials.

Open Theme Projects
Applicants set their own research themes to conduct Joint Research by utilizing the ARC’s digital researchresources and other materials.

Category 2

International Joint Research to Utilize the Center’s
Facilities and Equipment (without funding)

INTER
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JOINT DIGITALARCHIVING CENTER
FOR JAPANESE ART
AND CULTURE

open toapplications
any time

International Joint Research to Utilize the Center’s Facilities and Equipment
International Joint Research with the purpose of building a digital archive through utilizing the ARC’s facilities,
equipment, machines and devices, as well as the ARC Cloud.

International Joint Digital Archiving Centerfor Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC)

International Joint Research to Utilize the Center’s Databases
International Joint Research through utilizing the ARC’s databases.

For more details of each research project and how to apply, please refer to the ARC’s website.

Ryoanji Temple

hi-Mice-nokakKinu

Ritsumeikan
University

Imadegawa-doriRyoanji
Keifuku Electric
Railroad Kitano Line
JR Sanin Main LineTojiin

Hirano-jinja
ShrineKitanoTenmangu

Kitanohakubaicho
Marutamachi-dori
Enmachi

ART RESEARCH CENTER |Nishioji-dori

Kinkaku-ji

Badai Dori

The ARC assumed its role as the International Joint Digital ArchivingrdCenter for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC) on October 23 ,2019, upon being recognized by the MEXT as an International Joint
Usage / Research Center. With further advancements in today’s
information society, the digitization and database compilation ofculture and art research resources, as well as the utilization andpublic release of digital resources have brought about a revolution
in the hitherto analog research of Japanese culture and art. TheARC-iJAC has since been accelerating the building and utilization ofdigital archives of all research materials on Japanese culture and art
collected by the ARC, while converting the very process of humanities
research into born-digital material and propel the development of a
research environment that can facilitate the establishment of a “digitalecosystem” to accumulate and circulate archives. As an international
digital humanities center for the research of Japanese culture andart that facilitates efficient online research activities unrestricted byany geographical restrictions, the ARC-iJAC continues to provide anaccessible and user-friendly digital research environment.

www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/en/Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University56-1 Toji-in Kita-machi, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8577 JAPAN
Phone: +81-(0)75-466-3411 Open daily 9:30-17:00(Except weekends, national holidays and other designated days when the center is closed.)

Office: International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC) Office
Research Office at Kinugasa Campus, Division of Research, Ritsumeikan University56-1 Toji-in Kita-machi, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8577 JAPANE-mail: r-darc@st.ritsumei.ac.jp Phone: +81-(0)75-465-8476 Fax: +81-(0)75-465-8245
3.2020.1000

RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY

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ONLINE RESEARCH ACTIVITIESFUNCTIONS LIST

ARC’S DIGITAL RESEARCH ECOSYSTEM

WHY ARC-iJAC?

Shifting analog research toward an online environment andpromoting highly effective utilization of that environment

ARC-iJAC’s network environment & functions

Revolution in the research styles of humanities researchers

What you can do with the ARC-iJAC’s research environment

Cyber Associations

Online Research SpaceARC Cloud (ownCloud)Cyber Associations
Digital
Exhibitions

OnlineJournals1 Digital file uploading

OnlinePapers

2 Web publishing

4 File co-editing(Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)

3 File sharing

5 Presentation functions

DigitalExhibitions

including texts, images, videos,
audio recordings, and 3D materials

The Early Japanese Book Portal DB, Ukiyo-e Portal DB,
Performing Arts Images Portal DB and Landscape Images Portal DB

Data Annotations
Online Forums
Reference Databases

ResearchMeetings

Research Reference Databases

Implementing
data ecosystemthrough born-digitalstyle humanities
research

Digital humanities research makes it possible to start any research using digital
resources from anywhere around the world. Besides the databases of the ARC
collections, users will also have access to comprehensive, specialized cultural
resources through using our portal database system that allows the browsing ofcultural resources from around the world online.

ArtWikiArtWiki
Research Resources Databases
Digitization of cultural properties
is supported by the NPO

Research Resources

Databases

Born-digital stylehumanities research
will help build thedatabases

The Who’s Who in Culture and Performing Arts DB, Chronology of People & Events DB

Wiki specialized for individual projects

Culture & Art Terminology Dictionary

Digital Archives

WebPublishing

WebPublishingCulture Resources Portal Databases

ResearchRooms

Anyone can begin their own digital humanities
research using digital technology with ease!

Online Research Space

Virtual InstituteFile Server

Sharing primary information
using the cloud system

You can create databases that are
useful to your research!
The era when domestically presented papers or digitization lacking in versatility thattypically led to the neglecting of hard-earned research results has come to an end.
The digital research environment created by the ARC-iJAC allows researchers tocreate databases that are useful to their researches and share their research resultswith other researchers around the world.

And, there’s even technical support!

online display, online research institute

The ARC-iJAC provides a technical support system so that even those new todatabase creating or digital archiving can work in the digital research environment
with ease. In addition, users also have access to the ARC’s facilities and equipment.

The overall system of these various functions is collectively called “ARC Research Space”. Users
can freely access multiple databases and functions, making it possible to conduct research
on a wider scope and with improved efficiency that would otherwise be impossible within theconventional analog environment.

Analog Research Resources

Some Joint Research Projects conducted so far

Digital Archiving and Research of Japanese Art Collections
in Europe and the US

Archiving and Utilization of Japanese Performing Arts Materials on JPARC

Research leader: John Carpenter, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Research leader: Katherine Saltzman-Li, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara

Research leader: Toshie Marra, Librarian for Japanese Collection, C. V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley

The ARC’s digital archiving technology has been used
for this project whose aim is to digitize Japanese
art and craft works found in collections scatteredin Europe and the US, and to build databases ofthese so that the digital archives can be shared byresearchers. By also digitizing related materials andearly Japanese books, researchers can now conduct
studies on Japanese culture as well as on Japanese
art and craft works exported overseas within a digital
research environment. This project involved a great
number of institutions, including: the British Museumand Cambridge University Librar y in the UK; theMetropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Instituteof Chicago in the US; and the National Museum ofEthnology in Leiden in the Netherlands. The digitalarchives created under this project are also includedin the ARC’s Ukiyo-e Portal Database and the Early
Japanese Books Portal Database, thus contributing to
the research environment where digital materials fromaround the world can be shared and used.

This project was begun by the JPARC (JapanesePerforming Arts Research Consortium) in 2014 with theaim to digitize analog materials acquired by member
researchers and from the public, as well as to makethe outcomes of joint research conducted by member
researchers available for viewing online. The ARC
has been providing technical support for building
a high-resolution/high-definition digital archive ofnoh, kabuki, and bunraku theater materials. Throughadding thorough metadata to the digital materials, thisproject makes a wide range of information available forviewing online, including basic information designed
for e a sy c omp re he nsion by a nyone, a s we ll a s
specialized contents aimed at theatrical practitioners
and researchers alike. In addition, the ARC’s Kabuki
Database and Digital Ukiyo-e Museum are also beingused for the project’s Kabuki section that will become
available to the public in the near future.

Since 2006 the ARC has been jointly working on thisproject to build digital archives of the collections ofJapan-related materials at the C. V. Starr East Asian
Librar y at the University of California, Berkeley.
The digitization of these collections now makes
it possible to search in databases of old and rarebooks and copperplate engravings, while facilitating
their utilization in education and research activities.
Fur thermore, the archiving of transcriptions andbibliographical introductions of old and rare books
using ARC’s database functions has le d to theaccumulation of data, making it also possible to create
online exhibitions.

(Japanese Performing Arts Research Consortium)

JPARC jparc.online
https://jparc.online/

Japanese Special Collections in the C. V. Starr East Asian Library,
University of California, Berkeley

Database website: www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/lib/vm/UCB
https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/lib/vm/UCB/The “Late Hokusai: Thought, Technique, Society” Project
Research leader: Timothy Clark, Head of the Japanese Section, The British Museum

This project to digitize works and research materials as well as to build a digital archive began with thepurpose of making the catalogue raisonné (previouslyowned by Dr. Roger S. Keyes, a renowned British
Hokusai researcher, and donated to the British Museum) available for viewing and sharing online. The ARC
provides technical support for the digitization and thebuilding of the digital archive, while making it possible
to access to the database of catalogues raisonnés
and books containing illustrations via the ARC’s Early
Japanese Books Database. In addition, as part of thejoint project, regular online study sessions were also
held by researchers from Japan and the UK to study
introductory texts in Hokusai’s books, while creating
modern Japanese translations and English translations
to further the understanding of Hokusai’s works andrelated materials. The aim of this project is to facilitate
international joint research through utilization of digitalmaterials.

Late Hokusai: Thought, Techniques, Society (Database available in the ARCʼs Digital Ukiyo-e Museum)www.dh-jac.net/db1/booksrske/search.phpr