Connecting the Pacific with a Visual Archive: A Linked Postcard Database by Three Japanese and American Institutions.

Beginning in 2015, the Center for Integrated Area Studies (now the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies) at Kyoto University and Lafayette College embarked on a project to link open-access postcard databases. The following year, Harvard-Yenching Library joined the project. Participants from each institution traversed the Pacific to advance international and inter-institutional collaborative research. During this interval, due to the appearance of the International Image Interoperability Framework, we were able to set a course of our collaborative research. Since May 14th, 2019, the test version of this project has gone live.

Lafayette College
Lafayette
Center for Southeast Asian Studies Kyoto University
CSEAS
Harvard-Yenching Library
Harvard

Project History

May 14th, 2019 Harvard-Yenching Library
An International Workshop: Framing and Platforms: Approaches to Using Manchukuo Postcards and Other Visual Ephemera
August 1st, 2018 Kyoto University
The 4th Workshop for Creating Cross-Institutional Archival Collections
January 1st, 2018 Kyoto University
The 3rd Workshop for Creating Cross-Institutional Archival Collections
June 28-29th, 2017 Cambridge University
International Conference: Digital Media and Charting the Geography of Power in East Asia
June 24th, 2016 Kyoto University
The 2nd Workshop for Creating Cross-Institutional Archival Collections
May 19th, 2016 Harvard-Yenching Library
Harvard-Yenching Library New Holdings in Manchukuo History: Needs and Opportunities
May 11th, 2016 Lafayette College, Easton Pennsylvania
Kyoto University CIAS-Lafayette College Workshop: Collaborative Digital Archive of Twentieth-Century Japanese Postcards
September 15th, 2015 Georgetown University
Public Symposium: Media Cultures of Wartime and Postwar East Asia
March 3rd, 2015 Kyoto University
The 1st Workshop for Creating Cross-Institutional Archival Collections