MCN Taiwan 2010 Meeting, March 3, 2010

Museum Digital Archives

Workflow in Digital Archive

for Historical Materials
宮田公佳
宮田 佳
国立歴史民俗博物館
Kimiyoshi MIYATA
National Museum of Japanese
History
 Introduction To The Museum
The National Museum has
The museum of 3Japanese
roles: History
(Rekihaku), opened in March of 1983. Its purpose is
museum,
the systematic researchand
research institute,
exhibition of
andand
Japanese history graduate
culture. school.
 国立歴史民俗博物館
National Museum of Japanese History
Storage Facility
Galleries
Over 200,000 materials
zArcheological objects
R
Resource Old documents,
zOld d maps
open to zFolk materials
zArtworks
the public
p blic
Information
Investigation Rooms
Research Dept.
 Museum is an access point
‹ to the
h originals l Accessibility
A ibili is i important.
i
™historical materials and cultural properties
‹ to the information
™material information, research results, photos, and
digital contents
‹ to something new
™knowledge, experiences, technology, and interesting
‹ to the persons
™visitors, researchers, scholars, students, and creators
‹ to the past, present and future
f
Combining Different Materials
Pictures

Diorama

An Image of History
Documents Archaeological sites
 In Museums of History

‹An image off history

h is exhibited.
hb d
™From originals,
originals replicas,
replicas photographs,
photographs panels,
panels etc.
etc
‹Exhibition is a visualization of the history
image.
™Many researches are required to create it.
‹Visitors could see the history image from the
exhibition.
hb
™But there are other images of history.
Multiple Perspectives on History
an image of history

Any given
A i material
t i l andd combination
bi ti off th
them
provide multiple perspectives on history
Historyy

How to support the creation of own

perspectives in visitor
visitor’ss mind
 Expectations and Issues on
Digital Archive
‹Expected as tools
™to make a balance between preservation and use
™to improve accessibility to the information and
materials
‹Issues to be resolved
™formats : images, documents, videos, media, etc
™mixing of new and old systems
™migrations : H/W OS applications
™migrations : H/W, OS, applications

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 Recording Media
‹ Magnetic
g tapes
p
™open‐reel, cartridge tapes
‹ Floppy disks
™8 inch→5 inch→3.5 inch
‹ Magnetic optical disks：MO
™5 inch→3.5 inch
‹ Recent disks
™CD R DVD‐R
™CD‐R, DVD R
‹ HDD
™SCSI, USB, FireWire(IEEE1394) Migration
Mi ti
‹ Memory y cards Problem
™CF, SD
To Realize Flexible Exhibitions

Digital
Archive
System

Captions for
zChildren, adults
zResearchers
zDifferent stories
zIn multiple languages
 Digital Imaging Technology

‹A kernel
k l off the
h digital
d l archive.
h
‹Convenient to acquire images
™Each researcher has digital camera at anytime.
™Huge image data could be available.
‹As investigation tools
™Non‐destructive inspection of historical materials
‹Visualization of a variety of history images.
™ the
™on h Web
W b
™on the exhibitions
Combination of Imaging Devices

Digital Imaging System

Workflow of Image Processing

acquisition processing output

collection investigation exhibition

Basic workflow of museum activities

 Processing
g Phase

Investigation of Historical Documents 
‐ Improvement of Legibility
I f L ibili
y q y
by Frequency Filters ‐
 Other Research Topics

Document coated with IR image of the

rhus lacquer
A text hidden under a layer
documentof
old
lacquer can
Application
pp be read by
of IR imaging using an infra-
g g to documents
red imaging technique.
technique
coated with rhus lacquer
Texture and Surface Information
 Output
p Phase

Applications for Exhibitions
Digital Contents in Gallery
Diorama “City of Kyoto”
Applications
pp ffor Exhibitions

Projector and Camera System
Application of AR Technique

Collaboration Research with Prof. Miyake, Dr. Tsumura,

D Nakaguchi
Dr. N k hi and
dMMr. Takiguchi
T ki hi
Chiba University, Japan
 Summary
‹Issues and expectations on digital archives in
museums of history have been described.
i l archives
™Digital
™Di hi should
h ld help
h l to increase
i
accessibility to the information about materials for
a variety
i off purposes.
p
™It is important to p
provide support
pp for visitors who
seek to build alternative images from exhibited
materials and information.
‹Need to open the information
™for many users
™for many purposes
MCN Taiwan 2010 Meeting, March 3, 2010
Museum Digital Archives

Workflow in Digital Archive

for Historical Materials

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宮田公佳
国立歴史民俗博物館
Kimiyoshi
y MIYATA
National Museum of Japanese