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Integrated Database of Silk Road Ruins for Sharing the Evidence of Ruin Re-Identification has received the Best Paper Award from IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities Symposium 2021.
New Silk Road Ruin Database was released.
DSR Placename Database was released.
Mappinning was updated for multiple overlay of maps.
Hedin Placename Database and Huang Wenbi Placename Database were released.
Kara-Khoja Placename Database was released.
Maps of Kara-Khoja were added to Mappinning.
Mappinning was released.
Photographs were released as IIIF using IIIF Curation Viewer Embedded.
Automatic Image Tagging by Machine Learning allows you to access images by content.
We added new photographs for Anxi and Dunhuang, reaching 6129 photographs in total.
we added new photographs for Kara-khoja, reaching 5424 photographs in total.
Search by keyword is available.
We added new photographs for Changji and Jimsar.
We added new photographs for Turfan and Hami.
we added new photographs for Khotan, and they were linked with Stein Placename Database.
The site was releasaed.
We restarted the Bamiyan Cinema from the trouble of plugins, while we stopped the service of Chronological Map.
Guideline for submission is modified for people who are interested in Silk Road.
English version was added.
The site is renewed, and we added "Silk Road Tour" and "Chronological Map."
The site is renewed, and we added short cinemas and panorama images of the Heritage of Bamiyan.
The site is open to the public.
Silk Road in Rare Books supports IIIF curation for browsing high resolution images.
English translation of Silk Road in Rare Books for all 10 stories are completed.
Silk Road in Rare Books is now available in English. We are planning to translate two stories every month.
Discovery of Civilizations of Central Asia has started with the first story by Lin Meicun (in Chinese and Japanese).
Silk Road in Rare Books has started with the first story (in Japanese).
We released the Google Earth version for maps by Huang Wenbi.
We released 3D Maps.
We released TileJSON.
We released the Google Earth version for maps by Hedin, "Central Asia Atlas" and "Eine Routenaufnahme durch Ostpersien."
Stein Maps (Serindia, Innermost Asia) are now accessible on Bing Maps.
Stein Maps (Serindia, Innermost Asia) are now accessible on Google Maps.
Maps for Google Earth are increased, and a simple 3D model of Bezeklik Caves is built for Google Earth.
Old maps of Innermost Asia can now be seen on Google Earth.
Blue Marble Images of Silk Road is now open. And historical map collection can now be viewed smoothly on Google Earth.
The site is open to the public.
IIIF-based high resolution image delivery and DOI assignment for books have started.
We added 34 new books to become the collection of 245 books, 72,591 pages.
The database is open to the public. The number of books is 27 with 5,623 pages.
Center for Open Data in the Humanities (CODH) was officially established in Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS).
Center for Open Data in the Humanities (CODH) was preliminary started in Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS).
Kyoto Old Photo Hunting will be held.
Tokyo Old Photo Hunting (International Open Data Day 2015) will be held.
An experiment of MemoryHunt App was done at Kobe city on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Hanshin-Awaji Great Earthquake.
MemoryHunt App was released at Google Play.
We added information about the exhibition at Toyo Bunko Museum "Toyo Bunko World Map Exhibition: Blaeu's Maps as Seen in Vermeer's Worksa."
We added information about the exhibition at Toyo Bunko Museum "Islam."
We added information about the exhibition at Toyo Bunko Museum "Buddhism - Dynamism Connecting Asia."
We added information about the exhibition at Toyo Bunko Museum "Marco Polo, Silk Road, and Visiting World Heritage - Oriental Studies Born in the Western World."
New content was added.
The site is preliminary open to the public. This site is now available only in Japanese.
The site was released.
We exhibited our project at Toyo Bunko Museum "Islam" (Exhibition of Digital Cultural Heritage in a Real Space).
Three new videos were added to 3D CG Reconstruction: Introductory Walk-through Video, now providing five videos in total for viewing.
We started the collection and dissemination of data about the Citadel of Bam, Iran which was almost completely destroyed by the Iranian Earthquake on December 2003.
We added new place names, reaching 6258 place names in total. In addition, we added a KML file for Google Earth and others in map search.
We added accurate latitude and longitude on the map of Stein for most of the places, and released Map Search. The database has 5528 place names.
The site is open to the public.
Around DH in 80 Days kindly introduced Digital Silk Road Project.
UNESCO World Heritage was updated.
The website is renewed (Design (Calligraphy and Stamp)).
The website is renewed.
The website is opened to the general public.
We will hold DSR International Symposium 2014 at Tehran University, Iran.
Call for participation DSR International Symposium 2013 on February 28 and March 1.
Data was updated to the latest status.
On the 5th anniversary of Bam earthquake, the Website for disseminating the outcome of research is released, in addition to the existing website, Citadel of Bam, Iran.
The current location of temples is more comprehensive in Search by Placenames. Out of 3592 placenames in the database, 3032 have location information.
Information Infrastructure of Beijing Historical Space Using Google Earth and Complete Map of Peking, Qianlong Period has received the Best Paper Award from IPSJ SIG Computers and the Humanities Symposium 2008.
The website is released.
Introduction was translated into Japanese. From now on, Chinese, the original language, will be translated into Japanese.
The site is open to the public.
The site was released.
Senga appeared in Toyo Bunko Museum.
Senga Browser was released.
The site is now open to the public (only in Japanese).
Website design was changed. This also changed the URL of entries, which may lead to "not found" errors.
Series of reports on 6th Workshop Collection has started.
Senga Silk Road will appear at 6th Workshop Collection.
A Web site that summarizes outreach activities of the project is released (in Japanese). At this moment, the outreach activity focuses on Senga Silk Road.
A databse on representative Buddhist caves in China, namely Dunhuang Mogao Caves, Bezeklik Caves, Kizil Caves, is released.
New photographs are added.
Website is renewed.
The site is open to the public. More photographs will be added.
This page summarizes various activities on 3D models in the project.
On the 5th anniversary of Bam earthquake, the Website for disseminating the outcome of research is released, in addition to the existing website, Citadel of Bam, Iran.
Website design was changed, and the old URLs are automatically redirected to new URLs.
The site is open to the public. This site is now available only in Japanese, but may deal with multilingual terms in the future.