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Redesigning Rare Japanese Books in the Digital Age: Design of the Narrative Book Collection

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This paper introduces Narrative Book Collection—a unique model of digi-tal exhibition for pre-modern Japanese books that explores computation-al and visualization approaches to create a new book reading experience in the digital age. Narrative Book Collection uses both verbal and nonver-bal aspects of books to enable distant and close reading, and reveals cul-tural features in a narrative format. This paper describes the process of design and implementation of a digital exhibition inspired in approx. 200 titles selected from an extensive collection of pre-modern Japanese books from the 8th to the 19th century, kept by Keio University’s Library and the Institute of Oriental Classics. The implementation of Narrative Book Col-lection provides practical and comprehensive insights of Japanese culture through pre-modern Japanese book collections, and opens a new door for digital exhibition of books.

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Miyakita, Goki; Okawa, Keiko: Redesigning Rare Japanese Books in the Digital Age: Design of the Narrative Book Collection. In: Grau, Oliver;Hoth, Janina;Wandl-Vogt, Eveline: Digital Art through the Looking Glass. New strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in digital humanities. Krems a.d. Donau: Edition Donau-Universität 2019, S. 205-230. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/13353.
@INCOLLECTION{Miyakita2019,
 author = {Miyakita, Goki and Okawa, Keiko},
 title = {Redesigning Rare Japanese Books in the Digital Age: Design of the Narrative Book Collection},
 year = 2019,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/13353},
 editor = {Grau, Oliver and Hoth, Janina and Wandl-Vogt, Eveline},
 address = {Krems a.d. Donau},
 booktitle = {Digital Art through the Looking Glass. New strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in digital humanities},
 pages = {205--230},
 publisher = {Edition Donau-Universität},
}
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