Digital Fujikawa

Kyoto University Library Network and Keio University Media Center launched the Joint Project on Digital Unification of Fujikawa Collection (Digital Fujikawa) in 2018. This project intends to contribute to the development of the research in the history of medicine in Japan by providing the comprehensive view of Fujikawa Collection that has been physically divided into several parts, each currently held by a different institution. This is also a showcase of digital unification utilizing IIIF features, for which we plan to increase digital images available and participating institutions and develop new functions, in order to progress this project from the current trial phase to a full-scale phase by the end of academic year 2020/2021.

The number of records (as of August 2020)

• Kyoto University: 4,711
• Keio University: 911 (Records will be added.)
• The University of Tokyo: 172

Projects and Grants

Digitization of the Fujikawa collection is supported by the following projects and grants.

Kyoto University

• Grants for functional enhancements by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
• Project to Build an International Collaborative Research Network for Pre-modern Japanese Texts (NIJL-NW project) by the National Institute of Japanese Literature
• Kyoto University Open Access Promotion Project

Keio University

• Project to Build an International Collaborative Research Network for Pre-modern Japanese Texts (NIJL-NW project) by the National Institute of Japanese Literature
• Keio University Media Center (ordinary expenses)

Acknowledgement

We appreciate Masahide Kanzaki who provided us hints and tips regarding IIIF implementations. He gave a lecture regarding the implementation using IIIF in January, 2018 at Keio University.