Digital Scholarship Tools for Japanese Studies: Image-based resources
A guide to resources for digital humanities projects related to Japanese language materials. Special thanks to Andrew P. Nelson for the initial guide.
Image-based resources
- NDL Image SearchImage database searchable by key terms, metadata, URL, or by providing an image. All search results available through IIIF standards and viewable in a provided IIIF image viewer.
- Japan SearchCentralized platform for performing digital content searches across 128 libraries and archives in Japan. User-friendly filters permit effective browsing. Search results also link to curated galleries of related content.
- Cultural Japan - Self MuseumCultural Japan collects over a million image objects in a central location. The Self Museum allows users to construct a 3-D virtual museum, using IIIF manifests to “hang” digital images on the exhibition walls.
- Center for Open Data in The HumanitiesCentral landing page for a digital humanities center with members from the National Institute of Informatics and the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. Bountiful open source databases and code packages that cover a variety of disciplines. Notable projects are highlighted elsewhere in this document.
- Bukan Complete CollectionDatabase of daimyo and their personnel, with domain maps, animated sankin kōtai maps and more. Documents are KuroNet linked for Kuzushiji OCR.
- Edomi - Data Portal for Edo ResourcesA centralized portal for images and documents related to Edo travel, shopping, maps, food, arts, government, economy, natural disasters, news, and education.
- Edo Sightseeing GuidesSearchable database of IIIF images of places in Edo. Browsable by source, keyword, place name, and more.
- Edo Shopping GuidesA curated database of Edo storefront signs and business registries, browsable by publication source, size, proprietor name, business type, location, etc.
- Digital Silk RoadA central location for databases of rare books, historical gazetteers, maps of ruins, maps of Old Beijing, Buddhist cave temples, and more.
- Behind the CameraAn open-source website curated by Carrie Cushman & Steven Geofrey, hosted by the University of British Columbia, that archives the history of photography, feminist art history, and the history of modern Japan.
- Memory GraphA camera app that supports same-composition photography. Allows users to compose “before and after” photographs of historical places.
- Face CollectionA database of images of human faces, searchable by sex, facing direction, social rank, source, year, features, and more. Offers data sets for machine learning. Features an AI assistant that can detect faces within images.
- Image Curation BoardA whiteboard space for curating a personalized collection of self-selected images, with labeling capabilities.
- Differential Reading PlatformA platform for comparing similar texts and viewing, with AI assistance, minute changes from version to version. Useful for comparing sequential issues of gazetteers, serial portraits, etc. Includes open source code.
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