<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">All,<div><br></div><div>I realize that many people have already weighed in on this issue, and Fujiki-san himself has already replied to this list and may already have written his editorial, but I've been thinking about my experiences at the Keio University Research Center for the Arts and Arts Administration (including the Hijikata Tatsumi Archive I've been utilizing). In the late 90's, they got a bucket load of money from monbusho to explore digital archiving and while they have been quite hampered by the problem of copyright (some subjects of their main collections of materials--Takiguchi, Noguchi Isamu, and Hijikata are only recently passed on), in principle the kinds of strategies have been pretty interesting and helpful. Taking a hint from the searchability of Finnigans Wake for Joyce scholars, they have goal of making all of someone's corpus of materials searchable, so for example, while you wouldn't want to get a Hijikata hit while searching for 'dog' in a library database, it would be meaningful to be able to search for everytime Hijikata used the word dog in all his essays, writings, notebooks, and etc, in the same way that you might want to search across the entire Joyce corpus for "brown mackintosh" or something like that. At the present, you can't actually perform a search from outside the archive, and I am sure that has to do with both copyright and also probably Keio incentivizing the archive to earn some money in this day of uncertain funding for universities. However, along with viewing capabilities in situ, digitalization and off-sight searchability and accessibility should be part of the equation.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, in a kind of parallel manner in the way that many museums now tread lightly with restorations of art works because the history an art work passed through is its own valuable story and not just the original art work itself, they have had the meta goal of incorporating into the archive the very work that people do on these corpuses so the 'self awareness' of the archive is increasing. The goal, however imperfectly realized, has been both to provide researchers with the tools to pursue any kind of research they like (through the above searchability), and at the same time, to understand and track what people are searching and what key words are important as a way of possibly stimulating more research. I suggest that Fujiki-san spend an afternoon at the Mita campus visiting with the archivists there to get hints for how the media center might function.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition, I think video games and all generations of gaming consoles should be available. Video games are too much a part of this to ignore in favor of anime and manga as can be seen most obviously from the Pokemon and Final Fantasy franchises.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Bruce</div><br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Bruce Baird</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Assistant Professor</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Asian Languages and Literatures</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">University of Massachusetts Amherst</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">But</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">ô</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">, Japanese Theater, Intellectual History</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ; font-family: Helvetica; "><br style="; font-family: Helvetica; "></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">7</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">17 Herter Hall</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">161 Presidents Drive</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">University of Massachusetts Amherst</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Amherst, MA 01003-9312</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">Phone: 413-577-4992</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px">Fax: 413-545-4975<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><a href="mailto:baird@asianlan.umass.edu">baird@asianlan.umass.edu</a></span></font></p><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>