MCN Taiwan 2010 Meeting, March 3, 2010 Museum Digital Archives

Workflow in Digital Archive for Historical Materials Kimiyoshi MIYATA National Museum of Japanese History

Introduction To The MuseumThe National museum has 3 roles: The Museum of Japanese History (Rekihaku), opened in March of 1983. Its purpose is museum, research institute, the systematic research and exhibition of and graduate Japanese history and culture. school.

National Museum of Japanese HistoryGalleries Storage FacilityOver 200,000 materials Archeological objects Old d documents, maps Folk materials Artworks

Information Investigation Rooms

open to the p blic public

Resource R

Research Dept.

Museum is an access pointto the originalsA h l Accessibility is important. ibili i ihistorical materials and cultural properties

to the informationmaterial information, research results, photos, and digital contents

to something newknowledge, experiences, technology, and interesting

to the personsvisitors, researchers, scholars, students, and creators

to the past, present and f future

Combining Different MaterialsPictures Diorama

Documents

An Image of History

Archaeological sites

In Museums of HistoryAn image of h f history is exhibited. hb dFrom originals replicas photographs panels etc originals, replicas, photographs, panels, 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. hbBut there are other images of history.

Multiple Perspectives on History

an image of history

Any i A given material and combination of th t i l d bi ti f them provide multiple perspectives on historyHistory y

How to support the creation of own perspectives in visitor s mind visitors

Expectations and Issues on Digital ArchiveExpected as toolsto make a balance between preservation and use to improve accessibility to the information and materials

Issues to be resolvedformats : 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 MediaMagnetic tapes g popenreel, cartridge tapes

Floppy disks8 inch5 inch3.5 inch

Magnetic optical disksMO5 inch3.5 inch

Recent disksCDR, DVDR CD R DVD R

HDDSCSI, USB, FireWire(IEEE1394)

Memory cards yCF, SD

Migration Mi ti Problem

To Realize Flexible ExhibitionsDigital Archive System

Captionsfor Children,adults Researchers Differentstories Inmultiplelanguages

Digital Imaging TechnologyAk kernel of the d l f h digital archive. l h Convenient to acquire imagesEach researcher has digital camera at anytime. Huge image data could be available.

As investigation toolsNondestructive inspection of historical materials

Visualization of a variety of history images.on the W b h Web 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 Phase gInvestigationofHistoricalDocuments I ImprovementofLegibility f L ibili y q y byFrequencyFilters

Other Research Topics

A text hidden under old lacquer can be read by to documents using an infraApplication of IR imaging pp g g red imaging technique technique. coated with rhus lacquer

Document coated with rhus lacquer

IR image of the document a layer of

Texture and Surface Information

Output Phase pApplicationsforExhibitions

Digital Contents in Gallery

Diorama City of Kyoto

Applications f Exhibitions pp forProjectorandCameraSystem

Application of AR Technique

Collaboration Research with Prof. Miyake, Dr. Tsumura, Dr. N k D Nakaguchi and M Takiguchi hi d Mr. T ki hi Chiba University, Japan

SummaryIssues and expectations on digital archives in museums of history have been described.Digital Di i l archives should h l hi h ld help to i increase accessibility to the information about materials for a variety of purposes. i f p p pp It is important to provide support for visitors who seek to build alternative images from exhibited materials and information.

Need to open the informationfor many users for many purposes

MCN Taiwan 2010 Meeting, March 3, 2010 Museum Digital Archives

Workflow in Digital Archive for Historical Materials

Kimiyoshi MIYATA y National Museum of Japanese