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International Symposium on the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive FY 2015: "Disaster Archives as community memories for the future"

This page is for information about the Symposium on the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive held on Monday, January 11, 2016.

This symposium has already concluded. However, videos, speaker materials, and photos from this symposium can be accessed from this page. Past symposium pages can be viewed on the Symposium on the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive page.

Purpose of the event

The National Diet Library (NDL) and the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) of Tohoku University are pleased to hold a symposium on the Great East Japan Earthquake Archive at the auditorium of IRIDeS, Tohoku University, on January 11th, 2016.

The symposium will feature discussion of the advantages and challenges of maintaining digital archives of disaster records and the significance of these archives for the affected municipalities.

Event overview

Date and time

Monday, January 11th, 2016 13:00-16:30 (Doors open at 12:30.)


Venue

Auditorium of IRIDeS, Tohoku University468-1 Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai


Capacity

200 seats


Admission fee

Free of charge


How to apply

Please access the following URL.http://shinrokuden.irides.tohoku.ac.jp/symposium/sympo20160111/(Michinoku Shinrokuden system(Japanese))


Closing date

Friday, January 8th, 2016, at 17:00 (Japan time)Applications are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis and will close when capacity is reached.  


For enquiries

Ms. Ono, Mr. Shibayama Disaster Digital Archive, Disaster Information Management and Public Collaboration Division, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University E-mail: archiveforum@irides.tohoku.ac.jp Tel: 022-752-2099

Program

Featured Lecture

Integrating Disasters Archives into Museum Education and Research: The Digital Archives of Tsunami in Aceh (DATA) at the Aceh Tsunami Museum

Tomy Mulia Hasan

(Director of the Aceh Tsunami Museum)

Reports

Progress report

The Current Digital Archives of the Great East Japan Earthquake in Iwate Prefecture

Akihiro Shibayama

(Associate Professor of IRIDeS, Tohoku University)

National Diet Library Great East Japan Earthquake Archive as a portal site

Yasuko Suwa

(Senior Librarian of Digital Information Department, NDL)

Archives and traditions for Disaster Risk Reduction in Japanese Society―Michinoku Shinrokuden, an approach from disaster science five years on

Shosuke Sato

(Assistant Professor of IRIDeS, Tohoku University)

Panel Discussion

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