Technologies for Digital Content enliven Local Community

Hiroshi, Ono – Contents Inc.,

Yoshinori, Sato - Mie University

Ama-cho,Shimane Prefecture

Population: 2,510

Households: 1,090Area ： 33.5km2

The island as a “Filed-Museum”

Expected Impact/Outcome of ‘MinNArchive’

To enliven local community

To dissolve Digital Divide Aged people could join and reminisce about their

life stories, memories, or history of the island.

Intergenerational communication

Increase of the tourists

To present nostalgic memories to folks from the island

Minna = Everyone or all members

Aerial Photograph

Photo shooting 10 inches width roll, color-reversal film From: twin-engine plane Altitude ： 1374m Scale: 1/8000

Scanning the photographs (Digital Conversion) 1500dpi Equivalent to 4.2D （ Dynamic Range) Sampling Depth: 16bits for each color Segmentation ： 76 cuts Data Format: TIFF

Overlaying data to 1/5000 terrain map 12.5cm resolution

For Delivering Quality Interface

Cell splitting ‘ZOOMA’ licensing by Dream Technologies

Corp.

Providing links in the same manner as common Browsersstill image, motion picture, html or ...

As ActiveX or Java program

Multipurpose use of pictorial image data

http://www3.contents-jp.com/amacho_test/demo.html

The Municipal Office

Image Data

Contents Inc. in-company server

Interface Control

The Client

Tourism DisasterPrevention

Education

Variable output depending on the purpose

Primary Server:

Centralization of Image Data

Secondary Servers: Each server for each purpose

Real-time Update

Ama-cho MinNArchive

http://www3.contents-jp.com/amacho_test/demo.html

http://navi.town.ama.shimane.jp 　

Linking GPS to mobile terminals

GIS for Disaster Prevention Receiving information about the

accident/disaster sitesShowing the disaster locations and/or the

evacuation sites graphically Gathering detailed information from mobile

phones

Update in real time!

Summary

Key to Success for Digital Archive in Local CommunityOffer Information Landscape

Not “points”, but “whole landscape”Show graphically!

Create the place or the space for Collaboration

Adopt best suited technology