Credits

Project Director

Prof. Asuka Sango, John W. Nason Professor of Asian Studies and Religion (2022-present)

content expertise, teaching experience, language knowledge, and knowledge of historical maps and spatial representations.
Attended ILiADS (Summer 2023)
Dates involved: December 2022 to present
Project lead for “Mapping Japan, the Real and the Imagined,” supported by the Japan Foundation Institutional Project Support (IPS) Small Grant Program, 2024-2025.

Sarah Calhoun, Reference & Instruction Librarian for Humanities and Digital Scholarship (2022-present)

Attended ILiADS (Summer 2023)
project management experience, Omeka platform knowledge, understanding of institutional support needs and resources, student supervisory skills, and an Asian Studies background.
Scrum manager & collaboration facilitator

Em Palencia, Academic Technologist (2022-present)

Domain of One’s Own and Omeka administration expertise, project management experience, student supervisory skills, and an understanding of institutional support needs and resources.
Attended ILiADS (Summer 2023)

Katie Lewis, Cataloging and Government Documents Librarian (2022-present)

Curator of the Map collection
Expert metadata and cataloging skills, and a deep knowledge of Carleton’s physical map collection, including the gaihōzu, naihōzu, and OSS maps.

Hsiangui Liu-Spencer, Cataloging & Digital Services Librarian (2023-present)

Identifying gaihōzu series in the Carleton Map collection that are present at other institutions
Cataloging individual Special Collections and gaihōzu maps in Catalyst
Facilitating external digitization of maps

Amy Rachuba, Bridge Electronic Resources Librarian (2023-present)

Christina Sinkler-Miller, Head of Resource Acquisition & Discovery Services (2023-present)

Jackie Beckey, Special Collections Librarian (2024-present)

Rebecca Bramlett, Special Collections Librarian (2022-2023)

knowledge about Carleton’s Special Collections and skill in physical material handling and digitization

Abby Merritt, Library Conservation (2023-present)

Assessment of condition, stabilization, and treatment as needed of maps before and after digitization

David Bliss, Digital Preservation & Chair of DCAT (2023-present)

Tom Lamb, Head of Special Collections & Archives (2022-present)

Consultation and support
Responsible for managing the Special Collections & Archives unit, which houses the collection of 8 premodern Japanese maps.

Brinna Michael, Team Liaison at ILiADS (Summer 2023)

Cataloging and Metadata Librarian at Pitts Theology Library at Emory University,

Austin Mason, Director, Digital Arts & Humanities; Assistant Director for Digital Humanities, Humanities Center: Lecturer, History (2022-present)

technical and logistical support
digital mapping and web development knowledge, full stack coding experience, and supervision of all student development work on the project.

Wiebke Kuhn, Director of Academic Technology, ITS (2022-present)

technical and logistical support
project management experience, Omeka platform knowledge, student supervisory skills, and understanding of institutional support needs and resources.

Isabela Oliveira, Reference and Instruction Librarian for Humanities (2024-present)

Brie Baumert, Reference & Instruction Librarian for Languages & Cultures (2022-2023)

George Conlan, Student Collaborator (2022-present)

language and metadata skills
Carleton Library RADS (Resource Acquisition & Discovery Services) student employee: helped organize the collections of Japanese captured maps; advanced Japanese language student.
Attended ILiADS (Summer 2023): Contributed to the creation of Omeka S, user testing, wireframing.
Carleton Humanities Center’s Student Research Partner (Summer 2024): helped Asuka Sango’s research on Japanese maps in Carleton library’s collections.
AY 2024-2025: working with Asuka as Student Research Partner

Ayana Sakamoto, Student Collaborator (2023 & 2024)

student collaborator; subject skills, subject matter expertise and Japanese language skills
Attended ILiADS (Summer 2023): Contributed to the creation of Omeka S, user testing, wireframing.
Carleton Humanities Center’s Student Research Partner (Summer 2024): helped Asuka Sango’s research on Japanese maps in Carleton library’s collections.

Yanmiao Wang, Student Collaborator (2024-present)

Additional student collaborators and developers, including:

subject matter expert alums of Prof. Sango’s classes
The 2023-2024 & 2024-2025 & 2025-2026 Digital Scholarship Interns & Digital Humanities Associates, especially:
- Cynthia Leng
- Tonushree Chowdhury
- Nina Wakabayashi