Contents development in Internet-age public broadcasting: NHK War Testimony Archives

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  • 公共放送によるインターネット時代のコンテンツ展開
  • 公共放送によるインターネット時代のコンテンツ展開 : NHK戦争証言アーカイブスのこころみ
  • コウキョウ ホウソウ ニ ヨル インターネット ジダイ ノ コンテンツ テンカイ : NHK センソウ ショウゲン アーカイブス ノ ココロミ
  • ―NHK戦争証言アーカイブスのこころみ―

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<p>In August, 2009, NHK established its“War Testimony Archives”for the purpose of publishing the personal experience of war（http://www.nhk.or.jp/shogenarchives/）．At the site there are approximately 600 recorded recollections of people both in Japan and abroad who were willing to pass on what they remembered. They were gathered by means of NHK interviews, along with related material, and are available to the public. As of August 2011, 600 testimonials had been uploaded. NHK is planning to increase the number of interviews from 20 to 30 per month, ultimately gathering 1,000 testimonies for the archive by the summer of 2012.</p><p>NHK started the“War Testimony Project”in 2007. It aims to produce“Recorded Testimonies: The Soldiers’War，”a monthly program for the BS Hi­Vision channel（currently BS Premium），then to generate different and longer testimonial videos from the collected interviews for release on the web.</p><p>Over 60 years have passed since the end of the Pacific War. This is our attempt to examine the challenge faced by our society as to how to pass down the experience of conflict, and, as a public broadcasting organization, how to provide footage both on television and the Internet. Atthebeginningtheproject,weset aside a year before opening the site in order to debate and examine the many issues involved in setting it up,such as the way of presenting war testimonials on the web, site structure, and necessary contextual content for comprehension of the testimonials. The site has now been running for two years. We will be monitoring remaining problems by examining the production process, structure of the archives, and how the site has been utilized up to now.</p>

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