NIJL will co-host the “Digital Humanities and Digitization Workshop for Japanese Materials” in Vancouver, Canada, together with the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC) and the International Institute for Digital Humanities.
Digital Humanities and Digitization Workshop for Japanese Materials
Date: March 13, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM (PDT,UTC-7)
Venue: UBC Robson Square, Vancouver, BC (800 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC, V7Z 3B7, Canada)
Please refer to the schedule and program details here. (PDF 252KB)
Participation is free of charge, and advance registration is required.
Please register via this link by February 15, 2026.
In the afternoon session, the program will include an introduction to the Digitization Grant Program jointly undertaken by NIJL and the NCC, reports from the first-round grant recipients (Oberlin College, UBC, and the UC Berkeley), and an “Open Discussion on Issues related to Japanese Codicology” led by Prof. Davin from NIJL.
The Digital Humanities and Digitization Workshop for Japanese Materials will be held in collaboration with the following:
– National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL DDH Project)
– NCC’ s Comprehensive Digitization and Discoverability Program (CDDP) Task Force
– International Institute for Digital Humanities
– JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research (JP25H00001)
– MEXT Commissioned Project: DiHuCo for Data Platform