About This Site
This site aggregates information related to Japanese culture published by museums, libraries, and other institutions around the world, converts it to a common format, and provides it in an easy-to-use form. We support the discovery and utilization of electronically available materials.
System Overview
For details on sources other than Japan Search, see "About Cultural Japan Sources".
Systems
RDF Store: http://ld.cultural.jp/sparql/
Data collected from domestic and international institutions (including IIIF Discovery in Japan) is converted to RDF based on the Japan Search utilization format and stored. SPARQL 1.1 queries are available. A browser-friendly Snorql interface is also available.
Search App: https://cultural.jp/
Data obtained from the Cultural Japan RDF store and Japan Search RDF store is stored in Elastic Search, providing search functionality with facets that are easy to use from a browser.