Net-Expoとは何か (What Is Net-Expo?)

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From the 端山貢明アーカイブ (Hayama Kōmei Archive), item 9879 in the 執筆記事 (articles) category, registered 2022-10-02: https://d-commons.net/hayama/?c=&p=9879. Published by the 端山貢明アーカイブプロジェクト (Hayama Kōmei Archive Project), directed by 前川道博 (Michihiro Maekawa) of Nagano University, on the D-Commons platform, and licensed CC BY (表示). The source documents come from the 端山文庫, the papers kept in Hayama's laboratory at Tohoku University of Art and Design, digitised by the project with the agreement of his family; his autograph scores were given to the University History Archives of the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2026. Source: 山形Net-Expo公開サイト (the Yamagata Net-Expo public website), 30 September 1995; unsigned article written by Hayama Komei. Dated: Posted to the Yamagata Net-Expo public website on 30 September 1995; the closing note states Hayama wrote it but that it appeared anonymously.. A one-page manifesto written to launch Yamagata Net-Expo, posted anonymously on 30 September 1995, a few months after Tohoku University of Art & Design connected to the internet in July 1995. Hayama sets the networked exposition alongside the first international industrial exposition held in London in 1851, the display-and-exchange form invented when European industrialisation reached a peak. Half a century into the present era, he argues, informatisation is climbing towards a comparable peak, and society is now asking for an exposition form of its own. The second section, "through the autonomous action of the person who accesses" (アクセスする人の主体的行動によって), defines what Net-Expo is not. It does not imitate the old form by building pseudo-pavilions on the net and forcing information out at people. Information held anywhere on earth is instead exposed to the world's eyes in answer to demand, routed through a node such as the university's WWW server, and acquired by people autonomously and freely, by their own will. He compresses this into 「見せる博覧会ではなく、観る博覧会」, not an exposition that shows but an exposition that is looked at. Through it Yamagata appears to the world and the world appears in Yamagata, which he claims gives the prefecture cultural sovereignty. The third section introduces 情報の棚上げ, "shelving information", punning on an idiom that normally means setting something aside. Here it means the opposite: putting material on a shelf visible from everywhere, sorted so anyone can grasp it and marked so it is easy to find; a large international network such as the internet is that shelf. Radial, broadcast-style transmission will rapidly lose cost-effectiveness, he predicts, while well-shelved material people care about draws access from across the world, and reciprocally one can obtain, from where one stands, whatever is shelved anywhere else. He closes by committing the university to further Net-Expo events as its part in Yamagata's comprehensive informatisation. Contents as the document gives them: 新しい博覧会の提案 (A proposal for a new kind of exposition) · アクセスする人の主体的行動によって (Through the autonomous action of the person who accesses) · 情報の棚上げ (Shelving information). Noted: The transcription carries apparent typographical errors: 「見せる博度会」 for 博覧会 and 「コスト効果が簿く」 for 薄く; I have read them as the obviously intended words. No byline appears on the page itself; the attribution to Hayama comes from the archive's closing note.