Mr. Ayumu Saito graduated from the Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University. He then completed his graduate course in archival science from the Graduate School of Humanities, Gakushuin University. After graduating from Waseda University, he began a career as an editor in Tokyo. In 2016, he took on the role of archivist at the Research Resource Archive, Kyoto University. His field of specialty is architectural records from the 1970s in the United States and Japan. He is also interested in art and fashion archives, amongst others.
Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of AIJ) 83(750) 1599-1609 Aug 2018 [Refereed]
This study considers the relationship between architectural records and the Copyright Act of Japan. There are three types of limitations and exceptions to copyright: (i) for the “National Archives of Japan, etc.” and “local archives, etc.”; (ii) f...
Transactions of AIJ. Journal of architecture, planning and environmental engineering 83(744) 353-363 Feb 2018 [Refereed]
This paper examines the characteristics of architectural documents in Japan using quantitative analysis. The research objective was the result of a nationwide survey entrusted by the Agency for Cultural Affairs to the Architectural Institute of Ja...
GCAS report = 学習院大学大学院人文科学研究科アーカイブズ学専攻研究年報 (6) 60-76 Feb 2017 [Refereed]
The aim of this article is to explain the history of the US archives from the 1970s until its development around the 1990s and thereafter, following some American archival appraisal studies such as that of Frank Boles’ Archival Appraisal. We can b...
Analyzing Appraisal Decision Criteria for Architectural Records: North American Practices since the 1970s
Ayumu Saito
Journal of the Japan Society for Archival Science (24) 4-28 Jun 2016 [Refereed]
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the appraisal guidelines of the architectural records using a centralized measure. Due to the lack of substantiation in archival appraisal theory, Dr. Frank Boles had insisted on the need for “micro-apprais...
The Journal of Information Science and Technology Association 66(4) 153-159 Apr 2016 [Invited]
This paper reveals how archivists use the bibliographic information retrieval system; we summarized the concept of standards for archival description and analyzed the bibliographic information retrieval system that conforms to the standards. First...
Apr 2017 Registered Archivist of the Japan Society for Archival Science
Aug 2015 Successful Completion of Architectural Records: Managing Design and Construction Records, SAA Workshop, 2015
Ayumu Saito has been awarded 1.5 continuing education units and 10 section: B.3.b archival recertification credits upon successful completion of Architectural Records: Managing Design and Construction Records.
