FEATURE:Efforts made to archive 2011 Japan disaster data to pass on lessons

Entities in Japan have been stepping up efforts to archive data of the 2011 devastating quake-tsunami disaster in the northeast, such as documents, pictures and video footage to pass on lessons of the catastrophe as people's memory fades.Their collections serve as useful sources of information for researchers, educators and members of the general public who wish to learn from the past.The Great East Japan Earthquake Archive, an online portal site run by the National Diet Library, had some 4.45 million disaster-related digital items as of last December, nearly doubling from 2.39 million when…READ FULL ARTICLE