(Test) Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters

In the digital age, we believe archives are no longer simply storage facilities for future generations, but can be dynamic public spaces. The Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 Disasters aims to collect, preserve, and make accessible as much of the digital record of the disasters as possible, to enable scholars and a wide public audience in the disaster area, in Japan, and around the world to understand these events and their effect. We hope that the records preserved will be useful both in the near term as a source of understanding of these disasters, as well as long into the future for those who experienced these events, as well as scholars and policy makers.

We are developing the interface and data model for the archive by expanding and customizing the Zeega platform. The project is led by the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies.