How to share the record of restoration project of cultural properties damaged by Tsunami: The digitalization of the three types of documents recorded by the student volunteers

Abstract

The Great East Japan Earthquake happened on March 11, 2011. And many cultural properties were damaged. Japanese government has rescued them and stored them temporarily at museums to offer them emergency protection. The museum of Tohoku Gakuin University (TGU) is one of these museums, this museums accepted 1500-2000 items had been stored at Ayukawa treasure house in Miyagi. The museum of TGU had repaired and restored these items with student volunteers. They tried to record the process of this repair and restoration projects. At present, these documents have been digitalized in order to share the information for others. This paper analyzes the use of the digital data for different purposes.