The Rise and Fall of the Wonder Okinawa Digital Archive: Comparing Japanese and American Conceptualizations of Digital Archives
The Rise and Fall of the Wonder Okinawa Digital Archive: Comparing Japanese and American Conceptualizations of Digital Archives
dc.contributor.author | Wertheimer, Andrew | |
dc.contributor.author | Asato, Noriko | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-29T03:19:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-29T03:19:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-12-07 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the development of what once was Japan’s largest local digital archive, Wonder Okinawa, created in 2003. It collected a diverse view of Okinawa’s cultural properties as a treasure house for future generations. It was created under the banner of establishing an Okinawan “brand” to promote tourism and to nurture human resources, so that Okinawa could foster a hub of IT industries. In the early 2000s, the national government envisioned digital archives as part of its scheme to become a highly networked society, as the means to address social problems, such as the low birthrate, graying population, and shrinking workforce. The digital archive project spearheaded the government’s effort. However, the $13.5 millon project was dismantled less than a decade after its spectacular debut. The paper analyzes the causes of the failure and explores some key differences between the conceptual model of digital archives in Japan and North America. | |
dc.format.extent | 11 pages | |
dc.identifier.citation | Andrew Wertheimer, Noriko Asato, “The Rise and Fall of the Wonder Okinawa Digital Archive: Comparing Japanese and American Conceptualizations of Digital Archives.” Digital Libraries: Knowledge, Information, and Data in an Open Access Society, 18th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2016, Tsukuba, Japan, December 7-9, 2016: 63-76. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/67783 | |
dc.language.iso | en-US | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject | digital archives | |
dc.subject | cultural preservation | |
dc.subject | funding digital archives | |
dc.subject | regional digital archives | |
dc.subject.lcsh | digital archives | |
dc.subject.lcsh | cultural preservation | |
dc.title | The Rise and Fall of the Wonder Okinawa Digital Archive: Comparing Japanese and American Conceptualizations of Digital Archives | |
dc.type | Conference Paper | |
dc.type.dcmi | Text |
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