NCC’s Comprehensive Digitization and Discoverability
Program (CDDP) Task Force Produces a New Video Series onCutting-edge Digital Projects, Tools, and Resources
NCCのCDDPタスクフォースによる最先端デジタルプロジェクト、ツール、およびリソースに関する新しいビデオシリーズ

Regan Murphy Kao (reganmk@stanford.edu)
Toshie Marra (tmarra@berkeley.edu)
The 31st EAJRS Conference in Saint Petersburg, September 15-18, 2021

NCC’s CDDP: Background• North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC)• A non-profit organization since 1991
• Council members consists of librarians and researchers in Japanese Studies• Activities to improve access to library resources and other information about Japan through grant
programs and by working with collaborating organizations in North America, Japan, and elsewhere• Multi-Volume Sets (MVS) Project: 1992-2018• Intended to build a national, sharable print collection of Japanese research materials• Financial support from Japan-U. S. Friendship Commission and JPTC
• Funded 409 titles in 52,000+ individual items, at 42 separate institutions across the United States• Achieved the initial goal of reducing unnecessary duplicate purchases of expensive multi-volumesets at the U. S. libraries• Recognizing the need of adding digitization category, MVS funded 4 pilot projects (2015-2019)

NCC’s CDDP: Background (cont.)• MVS funded pilot cases: scenario 1) involving new acquisition and digitization:
Case 1 (2014/15): Princeton University Library purchased and digitized:
Seisan 清三. Shōun Oshō Kobun shinpō no shō 笑雲和尚古文真宝之抄. 1525. 10 vols. in 13
Case 2 (2015/16): Yale University Library purchased and digitized:
Jūjun kagetsujō 十旬花月帖. Handwritten ms. [1827]. 2 vols. Woodblock printed ed. [1883]. 3 vols.

• MVS funded pilot cases: scenario 2) involving digitization of the materials
already held by applying institutions:
Case 3 (2017-18): University of California, Berkeley Library digitized own holding of:Kadenshū 家伝集. Handwritten ms. [ca. 1875]. 146 vols.
Case 4 (2018/19): University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library digitized own holding of:
Hōrai no makimono 蓬莱巻物. Handwritten ms. [17th cent.]. 2 scrolls

NCC’s CDDP: Background (cont.)• MVS Project ended in 2018: Funding from Japan U. S. Friendship Commission discontinued• Comprehensive Digitization and Discoverability Program (CDDP) Task Force formed:• Regan Murphy Kao, Stanford University (Co-Chair)• Toshie Marra, University of California, Berkeley (Co-Chair)• Haruko Nakamura, Yale University• Setsuko Noguchi, Princeton University• Aiming to develop a new grant program with objectives:• Bring to light hidden, academically useful Japan-related materials through digitization• Enable more robust use of these items by Japan scholars worldwide• Promote collaboration nationally and internationally• Foster training in developing digitization projects• Help to build an international infrastructure for digitized Japan-related materials

2019: CDDP Task Forceshared a funding
program concept at
CEAL’s poster session
and NCC website forsoliciting feedback
2020: Was planning a“Summit to Build anInternationalInfrastructure for
Digitized
Japan-RelatedMaterials” conference,
but COVID-19 camealong…

Why make the CDDP Video Series?
Widespread adoption in Japan of the International Image Interoperability
Framework (IIIF) in the last 5 years🡪 access to digitized materials increased drastically🡪 uptick in innovative digital projects using digitized images

Aim of CDDP Video Series:
To help researchers and librarians gain access to digitized collections
and introduce tools so that more scholars can do more digitizedimages.

Who was involved in creating
the CDDP Video series?
Task Force members

Contributors

National Diet Library
Toshie Marra, U.C. Berkeley Libraries, CDDP Task Force co-Chair
Akihiko Takano, National Institute for Informatics
Regan Murphy Kao, Stanford Libraries, CDDP Task Force co-Chair
Dylan Siegal, Yale University
Satoru Nakamura, University of Tokyo
Haruko Nakamura, Yale Libraries, Task Force member
X Jie Yang, University of Calgary
Setsuko Noguchi, Princeton Libraries, Task Force member
Ann Sherif, Oberlin CollegeCathy Aster, Stanford UniversityTara McGowan, NCC Executive Director, Task Force member
Tarin Clanuwat, ROIS-DS CODH
Kiyonori Nagasaki, International Institute for Digital Humanities, adviser
Nick Frisch, Yale University
Yuta Hashimoto, National Museum of Japanese History

https://guides.nccjapan.org/cddp/video-series

Access
Japan Search & Cultural Japan

ToolsBuild,
Participate,
Collaborate,StudyMy Note (Japan Search)
Self Museum (CulturalJapan)
Omeka
ScalarSpotlight
GlideKuronet kuzushiji
recognition service
AI kuzushiji recognition(Toppan & CODH)
Ten Thousand Rooms
CODH datasets
Mirador
IIIF Curation Viewer...and more!Enhancing interactions withdigitized images
Japan Search’s My Note feature&Cultural Japan’s Self Museum

Giving context to digitizedimages
Omeka, Spotlight, ScalarImproving accessibility tohand-written texts
Listen to a Graphic Novel & 100 Classical Kana Words in Motion

Treating text as image:Cursive writing
Minna de Honkoku & Kuronet Kuzushiji Recognition Service

NCC-CDDP Award Program
https://guides.nccjapan.org/cddp/award-program• 7/2021: NCC-CDDP Award Program established: submission deadline: October 31, 2021
• To solicit contributions from anyone interested to share their digital projects using digitized images
and the tools used to create them
• To expand the contents in the CDDP Video Series to facilitate Japan specialists with conducting anddisseminating their research• Eligible Participants: Anyone engaged with research and instruction in Japanese Studies• Prize: A monetary prize of up to $500; Awarded video presentations will be published on
the CDDP Video Series website• Requirements for Video Presentations:• Materials presented in the videos must be clear of copyright• Narration audio included in the video presentations must be in either English or Japanese ––in bothcases English captions/subtitles are required• Length of each video presentation must be about 10 and no more than 20 minutes

Future Plans?
• 9/2021: North American libraries are reopening library services after more than ayear-and-a half of closure of library operation due to the COVID-19 pandemic• CDDP Task Force is shifting back to the original task: planning a new grant program tosupport digitization and discoverability for resource sharing and national andinternational collaboration• What would be minimum requirements that any North American library could fulfill without
stretching its local practices to widely share its digitized resources with scholars in Japanese Studiesworldwide?
• Which global database would be most likely to pick up the resources digitized by recipient libraries,
if the new grant program is established? OCLC, Digital Public Library of America, or HathiTrust?
• Isn’t it easier for Japan specialists if such digitized resources are included in Japan Search?
• How about registering in NIJL’s Shin Nihon Kotenseki Sōgō Database and Nihon Kotenseki SōgōMokuroku Database?

Thank you!
Regan Murphy Kao, Stanford Libraries, CDDP Task Force co-Chairreganmk@stanford.edu
Toshie Marra, U.C. Berkeley Libraries, CDDP Task Force co-Chairtmarra@berkeley.edu