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Model Building in the Humanities through Data-Driven Problem Solving (2024)

Komiyama, Fumi ; Yamamoto, Kazuaki ; Matsubara, Noriko

The National Institute of Japanese Literature NIJL has started a new project, "Model Building in the Humanities through Data-Driven Problem Solving", in 2024.
NIJL had digitized 300,000 pre-modern Japanese texts under the "NIJL-NW project". In the new project, 150,000 digitized pre-modern works will be added in collaboration with various institutions, including those overseas. In addition, we are going to try extracting full-text of digital images from pre-modern works.
We will also improve the functionality of the "Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts (国書データベース)" and enrich its content. Based on this database, we will promote the "Data-driven research" and other projects.
In this presentation, we will introduce an overview of our new project and further efforts regarding this database (e.g., text data creation by OCR).

2024 Grants

The European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (EAJRS) especially wishes to encourage the participation to its conference of resource specialists and young scholars from institutions with limited financial means or that have seldom or never attended an EAJRS conference. Therefore, with support from the Toshiba International Foundation, the organizers of the 34th EAJRS conference in Sofia would like to offer scholarships, which will include:

A study on the Chinese books of Léon de Rosny’s antique collection (2019)

Machi Senjuro

The author visited the Lille City Library to research on Japanese and Chinese classics. These books were part of the collection found in storage belonging to Léon-Louis-Lucien Prunol de Rosny (1837-1914), professor of the first Japanese language course in France. Rosny is known as a pioneer of Japanese Studies in Europe, though his efforts are not fully appreciated in modern day. 
Prof. Peter Kornicki published the catalog of Japanese Classics of  Léon de Rosny’s collection (1994); as the collection gained some renown it became clear that Rosny's Japanese book collection and the Japanese teaching materials compiled by  Léon de Rosny are closely related.
In addition to the Japanese books, Rosny’s collection included over 500 Chinese books, gifted to him by his teacher Stanislas Julien (1797-1873). Furthermore, it is believed that some books from Julien's teacher, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788-1832), are also included, and should be valued as part of academic history. However, the catalog of Chinese books has not been published, and has not yet not been widely recognized.

National Institutes for the Humanities (2019)

2008年に運用を開始し、2017年3月にリニューアルしたnihuINT（https://int.nihu.jp）は、多種多様なデータ構造を持つ人文科学のデータベースを一元的・網羅的に検索できる統合検索システムです。機構の6機関および機構が運用する地域研究拠点のデータベースと、国立国会図書館や京都大学東南アジア地域研究研究所などの外部機関のデータベースをあわせ、172のデータベースを1回の操作で検索することができます。

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