- Date and time
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March
26,
2013
(Tue.),
14:00-17:00
(Doors open at 13:30) - Venue
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Auditorium, Annex
, Tokyo Main Library
, National Diet Library
Seminar Room 1 , Kansai-kan , National Diet Library (Live link) - Capacity
- 250 seats at Tokyo Main Library
60 seats at Kansai-kan - Admission fee
- Free of charge
Symposium commemorating official launch of the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive: The records, the will to preserve them and the effort to hand them down to future generations
(This event has ended.)
The National Diet Library has officially released the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive on March 7, 2013.
The Great East Japan Earthquake Archive project （Japanese） is to collect, preserve and provide public access to the records of the disaster from earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant, in cooperation with other institutions.
In the symposium, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and the NDL will give an outline of the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive, which will be followed by lecture, case report and discussion by persons involved, institutions and organizations, about the preservation and application of the records of the disaster.
*Please use your tweets to share feedback and information about the symposium under the hashtag #archive_sympo. (put a space between hashtag and your opinion.)
*The symposium will be webcast on the day.Handouts are below. You can see some of the video pictures and handouts (Japanese only) at the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive.
Program
- 【Lecture】
- Living Memory and Wearing Memory
Mr. Tetsuo Yamaori (Scholar of Religious Studies)
- Living Memory and Wearing Memory
- 【Outline of the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive】
- Mr. Fumiaki Takahashi (Director of Advanced Information Systems and Software Division, Information and Communications Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) handout (Japanese, PDF file: 944KB)
- Ms. Miho Kawai (Director, Research and Development for Next-Generation Systems Office, Digital Information Services Division, Digital Information Department, National Diet Library) handout (Japanese, PDF file: 644KB)
- 【Case Reports】
- For Continuing to Assist the Disaster Victims by Joining Hands and Feeling Sympathy
handout (Japanese, PDF file: 1.8MB)
Mr. Yutaka Aotake (Operating Officer / General Manager of Public relations Office at Japanese Consumers' Co-operative Union (JCCU)) - Relief and Rehabilitation Activities of NGOs: Importance of Record and Our Activities
handout (Japanese, PDF file: 1.2MB)
Mr. Makoto Tajima (Chief Coordinator of Taskforce for Disaster Response, Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation) - Collection and Preservation of Materials of the Great East Japan Earthquake at Nagaoka City of Niigata Prefecture
handout (Japanese, PDF file: 301KB)
Mr. Hiroshi Tanaka (Historical archive section at Nagaoka city central library)
- For Continuing to Assist the Disaster Victims by Joining Hands and Feeling Sympathy
- 【Discussion】
- Coordinator
- Mr. Daisuke Tsuda (Journalist / Media Activist)
- Panelists
- Mr. Kazuhiko Amano (Associate Professor of Fukushima Future Center for Regional Revitalization at Fukushima University)
- Mr. Fumihiro Inagaki (Director of Revival Design Center at Chuetsu Organization for Safe and Secure Society)
- Ms. Yoko Inaba (Adjunct Instructor of Tezukayama University / Former Director of Information Processing and Management Division, Kobe University Library)
- Mr. Akihiro Shibayama (Assistant Professor of International Research Institute of Disaster Science at Tohoku University)
*Joint hosting: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications - Coordinator
- How to apply
- Application was closed.
- Closing date
- March 20 (Wed.) 24:00 Japan time (Applications are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis and will be closed when capacity is reached.)
- For enquiries, please contact:
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Digital Information Distribution Division,
Digital Information Department,
National Diet Library
E-mail: ml-sympo@ndl.go.jp
Fax: 03-3581-0768