The Roles of Archiving in Earthquake Studies: the Case of the Great East Japan Earthquake

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This paper discusses the experience and benefit of digital archives for earthquake engineering and studies. Following the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) created a digital archives project, namely Michinoku Shinrokuden. Its multi-layered mission is to collect a vast and comprehensive amount of records, draw lessons enhancing disaster reduction and mitigation, and provide material for disaster education and Elearning. With the support of its international and national network, this project has also the ambition to become a key actor in the design, promotion and dissemination of global standards for disaster archives. In addition to preserving and sharing these records, the research staff of Michinoku Shinrokuden endeavours to help drawing lessons to improve our understanding, prevention and memory of earthquakes and tsunamis. These lessons aim at contributing to the policy and practical measures adopted for reduction of disaster risk within and outside Japan. Finally, the papers concludes with an overview of the local and global standards developed at Michinoku Shinrokuden for the development of disaster archives in Japan and beyond. Through this study, we hope to show how digital archives might best serve the interest of earthquake engineering and its broader community.

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