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[P-04] National Diet Library Great East Japan Earthquake Archive: HINAGIKU

*Hiroshi Maeda¹ (1. National Diet Library, Japan)

Keywords:Digital Archive, Permanent storage

HINAGIKU is an one stop site which enables integrated search of records and reports of the Great East Japan Earthquake disaster by public institutions, private organizations and media, and of research by universities, academic societies and research institutes. Its aim is to hand down all records and lessons to future generations and to utilize them for the restoration and reconstruction of the affected areas and for disaster prevention measures. Searches of HINAGIKU include content from 49 archives cooperating with HINAGIKU, as well as content collected by the National Diet Library. In addition, content collected in the digital storage of HINAGIKU is permanently preserved. The National Diet Library released HINAGIKU on March 7, 2013. As of the end of May 2019, the number of metadata that can be searched in HINAGIKU is approximately 4.25 million. The National Diet Library distributes brochures about HINAGIKU.