<Symposium Overview: Presentations' outlines>Understanding the Japanese culture of space from a cross-disciplinary approach : JAPARCHI: From a network to a collaborative tool for innovative research

Abstract

The French-Japanese research network Japarchi has produced in 2014 a "Vocabulary of Japanese spatial concepts" published as a book in French. Its purpose consists of approaching the question of space in the Japanese culture through its notions, as material or conceptual devices, bringing together in a specific form diversified knowledge, using written and visual materials. Japarchi's next project for 2018-2020 aims at developing its network research system into a digital collaborative tool for its community as well as a dynamic online database open to the public, while keeping the same frame and format principles. In particular, the chosen format is a dictionary entry through a term, rather than a category for instance, inasmuch as it offers the possibility to build a cross-disciplinary approach. Among several advantages, a digital collaborative platform would provide the possibility to review, update, interconnect and geo-localize the written and visual materials, enhancing and facilitating the research production as well as the multiplicity of its information layers. In other words, it should respond to the idea of an information research network, at the same time enriching the research process and giving access to its results in different ways.