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Exploring the Kyoto Digital Archives Project: Challenging the Funding Model of Digital Archive Development

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Within the Japanese world of digital archives, Kyoto plays a key role. The city became a pioneer in digital archive development by partnering with academics, private organizations with cultural treasures, and private industry. They created the Kyoto Digital Archives Project, an organization that developed a profit-sharing model for digitizing materials and overcoming complex issues of intellectual property. This paper examines how it developed, and also looks at its framework for proposing autonomous regional archives over a homogenized national digital archive.

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    Noriko Asato & Andrew Wertheimer

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  2. School of ITEE, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia

    Jane Hunter

  3. School of Library & Info Sci, Kent State University, KENT, Ohio, USA

    Marcia L. Zeng

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Asato, N., Wertheimer, A. (2015). Exploring the Kyoto Digital Archives Project: Challenging the Funding Model of Digital Archive Development. In: Allen, R., Hunter, J., Zeng, M. (eds) Digital Libraries: Providing Quality Information. ICADL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9469. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27974-9_3

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