Digital Humanities and Digitization Workshop for Japanese Materials (Vancouver, Canada, March 13, 2026)
Paula R. Curtis
Dear Colleagues,
In collaboration with the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL), the International Institute for Digital Humanities (DHII), JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research (JP25H00001), and MEXT Commissioned Project: DiHuCo for Data Platform, NCC’s Comprehensive Digitization and Discoverability Program (CDDP) Task Force will hold the Digital Humanities and Digitization Workshop for Japanese Materials on March 13, 2026 during the upcoming AAS Annual Conference in Vancouver, Canada.
The workshop is free for anyone interested in participating in any part of the program. Participants of the hands-on workshop will be required to bring their own device (laptop). A full program is attached here and below.
Date: March 13, 2026 (Friday)
Time: 9 AM to 3 PM
Venue: Robson Square Campus, University of British Columbia (800 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC, V7Z 3B7, Canada)
Registration:
Please sign up (click here for registration form) by February 15, 2026 (lunch will be provided only for those registered in advance).
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Toshie Marra (tma...@berkeley.edu) or Naoko Kato (naoko...@nccjapan.org) at any time.
Thank you very much for your attention.
Best regards,
CDDP Task Force, North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC)
Toshie Marra (University of California, Berkeley; Chair)
Kiyonori Nagasaki (Keio University / International Institute for Digital Humanities; Advisor)
Haruko Nakamura (Yale University)
Setsuko Noguchi (Princeton University)
Fabiano Takashi Rocha (University of Toronto)
Naoko Kato (NCC)
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Digital Humanities and Digitization Workshop for Japanese Materials
Hosted by
NCC’s Comprehensive Digitization and Discoverability (CDDP)Task Force, National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL), the International Institute for Digital Humanities (DHII), JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research (JP25H00001), and MEXT Commissioned Project: DiHuCo for Data Platform
March 13, 2026, 9 AM to 3 PM
At Robson Square Campus, University of British Columbia
(800 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC, V7Z 3B7, Canada)
Program
*Please register (click here) for attending any part of the program by Feb. 15, 2026
9:00am - 10:30am: An Introduction to Text Encoding for Japanese Studies - Lecture
● Kiyonori Nagasaki (Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Letters, Keio University / International Institute for Digital Humanities)
● Kazuhiro Okada (Associate Professor, Department of Japanese Literature, Faculty of Letters, Keio University)
References:
● MEXT Commissioned Project: DiHuCo for Data Platform https://kemco.keio.ac.jp/learning-and-research/dihuco-for-data-platform/
● 科学研究費助成事業 特別推進研究「デジタル研究基盤としての令和大蔵経の編纂次世代人文学の研究基盤構築モデルの提示(JP25H00001 研究代表者：下田正弘（武蔵野大学）) 」https://reiwadzk.dhii.asia/
● 「人文学のためのテキストデータ構築入門」https://www.dhii.jp/dh/tei/
● TEI古典籍ビューワ https://tei.dhii.jp/teiviewer4eaj
● TEI研究会 https://tei.dhii.jp/home
10:45am - 12:00pm: An Introduction to Text Encoding for Japanese Studies - Hands-on workshop
● Kiyonori Nagasaki (Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Letters, Keio University / International Institute for Digital Humanities)
● Kazuhiro Okada (Associate Professor, Department of Japanese Literature, Faculty of Letters, Keio University)
References:
● TEI P5 Guidelines https://tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html
● Oxygen XML Editor (Please download it in advance) https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/download_oxygenxml_editor.html
12:00pm - 1:00pm: Lunch Break (lunch will be provided for those registered in advance)
1:00pm - 3:00pm: NIJL-NCC CDDP Digitization Grant Program Report and Open Discussion on Issues related to Japanese Codicology
● CDDP Task Force and NIJL, “CDDP Task Force Activity Report and the 2026-2028 Digitization Grant Program”
The 2024-2025 Digitization Grant Program Recipients’ Reports:
● Yilin La (East Asian Studies Librarian, Oberlin College Libraries), “Things I Wouldn’t Have Learned without Directing a Digitization Project”
● Tomoko Kitayama Yen (Japanese Studies Librarian, University of British Columbia Asian Library), Elizabeth Edgerton (Digital Initiatives Assistant, UBC Digital Programs & Services) and Lisa Wilson (Digitization and Web Archiving Assistant, UBC Digital Programs & Services), “From Rare Books to Open Access: UBC’s Collaborative Approach to Digitizing Japanese Materials”
● Toshie Marra (Librarian for Japanese Collection, University of California, Berkeley), “Making Original Research Materials Available to All: Japanese Manuscripts Collection at the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, UC Berkeley”
Open Discussion on Issues related to Japanese Codicology
● Didier Davin (Professor, National Institute of Japanese Literature), “How to Internationalize Japanese Codicology?: the Path to a Collaborative Technical Terms Database”
Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities