Construction of a Portal Site of Japanese Old Maps for Promoting Digital Humanities

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

Ritsumeikan University

Yano Keiji

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Pioneering)

https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-20K20277
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-17H06186/

In this research, we construct a framework to comprehensively and cross-sectionally search, browse, and analyze old maps such as past maps and drawings created and published in Japan, which are owned by libraries and museums in Japan and overseas.
With this framework, it will be possible for users to choose old maps they want to analyze from ‘the ARC Map Portal Database’ that allows old maps to be searched across multiple possessing institutions, share old map georeferencing via ‘the Japanese version of Map Warper’ and other maps converted to GIS with other sites; and, finally, import this material to ‘Japanese Old Maps Online’ to create maps for detailed analysis and on a variety of subjects.