Appendix A: Introductory Email (5/20/2018)
渡邉先生、
初めまして。スケールズ‧エマと申します。ノースカロライナ大学チャペルヒル
校で図書館学の大学院生です。今、修士論文を始めて書いています。修士論文の
トピックはデジタルヒュマニティーズのプロジェクトのセスティナビリティで
す。英語で修士論文のトピックをもっと説明します。
As part of looking into the sustainability of digital humanities projects, I would like to interview you about the digital archives you created, especially those about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the Battle of Okinawa. I am very interested in your work and I think these archives seem to be a good case study of the sustainability of large digital projects. I am curious to learn more about why you built the archives and where you think the future will take them.
If you agree to be interviewed, the interview would be conducted remotely in English. The timing of the interview would most likely be later in the summer, at a time
convenient for you.
よろしくお願いいたします,
Emma Scales
University of North Carolina | MSLS '18 Library Intern | U.S. EPA RTP (UNC contractor)
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37 Appendix B: Follow-up email with consent form (6/28/2018)
Dear Dr. Watanave,
Thank you for your patience. I have just received final approval of the interview questions and format from my university’s Institutional Review Board.
I attached a consent form that I would like you to complete, sign, and return to me as soon as possible. I also attached the interview questions. You may answer the questions directly within the attached document or in a separate document. If possible, I would like to receive your answers by the end of August at the latest. I may check in with you about your progress at the end of July if I have not already received your answers.
Please email me with any further questions or if there is a problem with either of the attachments.
Thank you, Emma Scales
University of North Carolina | MSLS '18 Library Intern | U.S. EPA RTP (UNC contractor)
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38 Appendix C: Email Notification of IRB Exemption
Subject IRB Notice - 18-1442
From IRB
To Scales, Emma Rose
Cc Anthony, Denise
Sent Tuesday, June 26, 2018 16:57
To: Emma Scales
School of Information and Library Science
From: Office of Human Research Ethics
Date: 6/26/2018
RE: Notice of IRB Exemption
Exemption Category: 2.Survey, interview, public observation
Study #: 18-1442
Study Title: "Technologies of Peace:" An Examination of Digital Sustainability
This submission has been reviewed by the Office of Human Research Ethics and was determined to be exempt from further review according to the regulatory category cited above under 45 CFR 46.101(b).
Study Description:
I intend to use four digital archives created by Hidenori Watanave as a case study for the examination of the long-term sustainability of such a large digital undertaking. Given the mixture of success and failure for these types of digital projects, it seems important to learn and understand the reasons behind these varying outcomes to ensure the longevity of current and future projects.
Participants: Dr. Hidenori Watanave, University of Tokyo
Procedures (methods): An email interview to be conducted in English.
Investigator’s Responsibilities:
If your study protocol changes in such a way that exempt status would no longer apply, you should contact the above IRB before making the changes. There is no need to inform the IRB about changes in study personnel. However, be aware that you are responsible for ensuring that all members of the research team who interact with subjects or their identifiable data complete the required human subjects training, typically completing the relevant CITI modules.
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The IRB will maintain records for this study for 3 years, at which time you will be contacted about the status of the study.
The current data security level determination is Level II. Any changes in the data security level need to be discussed with the relevant IT official. If data security level II and III, consult with your IT official to develop a data security plan. Data security is ultimately the responsibility of the Principal Investigator.
Please be aware that approval may still be required from other relevant authorities or "gatekeepers" (e.g., school principals, facility directors, custodians of records), even though the project has determined to be exempt.
CC:
Denise Anthony, School of Information and Library Science
This project was determined to be exempt from federal human subjects research regulations. 40 a. b. b. b. b. a. a. a.
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Appendix D: Consent Form University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Consent Form IRB Study #: 18-1442
Principal Investigator: Emma Scales
The purpose of this interview is to learn more about the nature of your digital archives and steps you have taken to preserve the materials in the archives. Questions will relate to the creation of the archives, participation with the archives, and long-term
maintenance of the archives. You are being asked to complete this interview because you created the digital archives that are the basis for the paper.
If you agree to take part in this interview you will be asked to answer the interview questions in the document attached to this email. The actual time to complete the interview will vary depending on how detailed your answers are, but it will hopefully not take more than an hour at most. You will be the only person interviewed for this paper.
Completing this interview is completely voluntary. You can choose not to complete this interview. You can also say yes now and change your mind later. You can choose not to answer any question you do not wish to answer. You can also choose to stop taking the survey at any time.
The possible risks to you in taking part in this interview are:
Discovery of your identity if you choose to be anonymized.
The possible benefits to you for taking part in this interview are:
Increased discoverability of your work.
Please indicate whether you consent to each of the following by circling the appropriate response. Please note that your responses to 2, 3, 4, and 5 will not affect your eligibility to complete the interview.
1. I will receive an email interview
I consent I do not consent
2. I may receive additional follow-up questions after completing the initial email interview.
I consent I do not consent
3. I will be identified by name in the final research paper. I consent I do not consent
4. My responses to the interview questions will be quoted within the text of the research paper.
I consent I do not consent
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This project was determined to be exempt from federal human subjects research regulations. 41
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5. My responses to the interview questions will be included in their entirety as an appendix to the research paper.
I consent I do not consent
Should you choose not to be identified in the research paper; your name, employment location, and email will be withheld from all portions of the research paper.
Please sign and date below, indicating that you have read and understand the form. Sign:
Date: September 26, 2018
If you have any questions about this research, please contact the investigator named at the top of this form by calling 303-931-9501 or emailing [email protected]. If you have questions or concerns about your rights as a research subject, you may contact the UNC Institutional Review Board at 919-966-3113 or by email to
42 Appendix E: Interview Guide and Responses
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Interview Guide
IRB Study #:18-1442
Principal Investigator: Emma Scales
Interview Guide
Please answer the following questions in as much detail as possible. You can type directly into this document or create a separate one for your answers. You do not have to answer all the questions if you do not want to. Please contact me if any of the questions are unclear and you would like clarification.
Creating the archive
1. In watching to some of your presentations about the archives, I saw that you were asked to make the Pearl Harbor and Okinawa archives. How did you decide to create the Hiroshima and Nagasaki archives?
First of all, We made the Tuvalu Visualization Project in 2009. A grandchild of an A - bomb survivor in Nagasaki inspected it and asked me to produce the Nagasaki Archives. A son of an A-bomb survivor in Hiroshima browsed it and asked me to produce the Hiroshima Archives. All archives were born from people's connections.
2. Can you talk about the term ‘archive” in relation to these projects? How do you define archive?
a. Are the materials displayed online also preserved physically?
Yes. All materials were originally archived in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum or included in books. We used digitized data from them.
i. How did you decide where to store these materials?
Therefore, this question has no meaning.
3. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki archives are seven and eight years old now. How are you continuing to work with them? For example, are you continuing to add
photographs or oral histories?
a. How have the archives changed since you started working on them?
This article is very useful for knowing those changes.
https://cesiumjs.org/demos/hiroshima-archive/
43 1. How much traffic are the archives’ websites getting?
Each is about 100,000 page views per year.
2. Are you getting the amount of participation you anticipated?
Yes. I am satisfied with it.
3. Are you getting the type of participation you anticipated?
Since 2010, smartphone users have increased dramatically. I did not anticipate this. Currently, the archives are also compatible with smartphones. By this, I think that the younger generation is browsing the archives than before.
4. How are people getting involved with the archives?
Students at the Hiroshima Jogakuin High School have recorded survivors’
testimonies as part of their club activities. Also in the last few years more diverse activities have emerged. Please refer to this document.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18kTSS5nxiX4JcHHzD_eVY9kPg1ggE_BN/view ?usp=sharing
5. Can you talk about the kinds of people involved in the archives?
A-bomb survivors, high school students and teachers, students from the
University of Tokyo, the Tokyo Metropolitan University, and other private sector collaborators. Government and local government officials are not participating.
6. Have you noticed a difference in the people involved with the older Hiroshima and Nagasaki archives and the newer Pearl Harbor and Okinawa archives?
High school students continue to participate in the Hiroshima Archive. This is a merit that is not available in other archives. With this merit, the Hiroshima archive has been activated, and it is constantly evolving.
Digital Curation
1. Can you talk about curation goals, if any, you have for these archives?
Currently, each testimony is mapped to the place at the time of the bombing. I would like to express the movement of A-bomb survivors in a long time span like
The Peace Learning Archive of Okinawa.
2. How long do you want the archives to last? 3. How long do you think they will last?
4. What would you like to happen to the archives if you retire?
In 2014, we moved the archives platform from the Google Earth API to the open source software Cesium. Currently, smartphone applications using AR technology are also released. In other words, archives are evolving, incorporating the latest technology. Data combining location and testimonies / photos can be visualized on any platform. Therefore, it can be maintained semi-permanently. Also, the source code of the Hiroshima archive has already been published on GitHub. Engineers from around the world can “clone” or “fork” it and “commit” their original development. This situation should further extend the life of the archives.
5. Do you apply metadata to the materials?
a. What sort of metadata schema do you use? Tell me a little about how you apply metadata.
44 b. Do all materials receive metadata?
I added only location information / time information as metadata to the data. Other metadata is given to the data of the original digital archive (for example, the peace database of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum).
6. How much digital storage space do these projects occupy?
For example, the source code of "Hiroshima Archive" occupies about 500 MB. Since the movie is posted on YouTube, it does not need so much capacity.
7. How much of the digital material is backed up or stored redundantly?
All contents are saved synchronously with GitHub, server, local PC.
8. Tell me about other steps you take to preserve the digital materials in the archive. For example, how do you check the stability of the data?
a. Do you ever have to migrate the data to a different system or storage device?
It is necessary to convert raw data to a format called CZML. CZML is a JSON format for describing contents of Cesium. Also, map data needs to be divided into tiles.
9. What was the process for changing from the Google Earth API to the Cesium mapping program?
a. Were all digital materials affected by the transition or just the mapping features?
Please refer this article.
https://cesiumjs.org/demos/hiroshima-archive/
Economic/Infrastructure Sustainability
1. Tell me about the types of organizations supporting your efforts. a. Are local museums or government providing support?
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum provides photographic materials for the Hiroshima Archive. In the Okinawa archive, the Hiroshima Prefectural Archives Museum provides photographic materials.
b. You sometime have local high school students gather testimonies from Hibakusha. Are these students involved in any other way?
I have already answered it in “Participation”-4.
45 a. Is there university funding or community funding?
We used University fund and JSPS’s Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research. By the way, we used a crowdfunding for holding “U.S. Japan High School Students Peace Conference”.
https://www.makuake.com/en/project/nagasaki-hiroshima- archive/config.global
3. What kinds of international support do you receive?
In 2016, we held a peace conference using digital archives in Boston and New York. At that time, we are receiving cooperation from the United Nations Disarmament Department and others.
http://peacecon.mapping.jp/
4. Are your students and your laboratory working on these archives in any way? a. If so, how are they involved?
They play roles such as facilitators of high school students' workshops, developers of web contents, exhibition staff, and so on. They utilize the knowledge and experience gained in these activities and develop their own research.
http://hiroshima.mapping.jp/member_en.html
Use of Automatic Colorization program
1. How did you decide to integrate the Automatic Colorization software into the archives?
Please refer a pre-print paper for SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 (rejected) and the concept movie. This method more directly appeals to the viewer's mind and brings back memories.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=17akULh1gXtXNG7nCnJyahS_pD5HT5h5y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhf0VEEzQbk
General Questions
1. What was the most difficult part of creating these archives?
It is to build a relationship of trust with local people. Without it, the completed digital archive will not be used.
2. Is there anything you would do differently in the future when creating another archive?
46 Appendix F: Image Colorization Process Example
Figure 1: Colorization process of pre-war (1936) photograph owned by an A-Bomb survivor (Image from Watanave, Niwata, Yamaura, and Nakagawa, 2018, p. 1. Manuscript submitted for publication and was supplied by Watanave as part of interview response). The photograph on the left is the original black and white version. The photograph in the middle shows the results of the AI-based colorization software. The photograph on the right is the final colorized version of the photograph after the middle photograph was touched up by high school students in consultation with the photograph’s owner.