Introduction

I specialize in the early Western printing techniques, with a particular focus on the Gutenberg Bible and incunabula. My research explores the relationship between manuscripts and printed books, changes in the perception of books and reading practices, and I am conducting ongoing research on the Gutenberg Bible using digital images. I am also interested in document preservation, digital archives, the digitization of rare books, and the field of digital humanities.

■ Analysis of early European printed books with digital technologies
・Research Objective: Investigation of the earliest type casting method based on the statistical analysis of the type images
- タイトル: Statistical analysis of the Gutenberg 42-line Bible types: Special focus on letters with a suspension stroke, Agata M., Agata T. （Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America） 115(2), 167-183 2021年06月
・Research Objective: A new method towards type recognition and statistical analysis
- タイトル: Image recognition and statistical analysis of the Gutenberg's 42-line Bible types, Agata M., Agata T. (Digital Scholarship in History and the Humanities: Proceedings of the 6th Conference of Japanese Association for Digital Humanities） 2016 59-59 2016
・Research Objective: Collation with digital images and analysis of the printing process of the Gutenberg Bible
- タイトル: Stop-press variants in the Gutenberg bible, Agata, M. 2006 (PhD thesis submitted to Keio University)
・Research Objective: Propose a new method of digital collation of early printed books
- タイトル: Towards collation with digital images, Agata, M. （Library and Information Science） 53 1-17 2006
・Research Objective: Analysis of stop-press variants through digital collation of the first volume of the Gutenberg Bible
- タイトル: Stop-Press Variants in the Gutenberg Bible: The First Report of the Collation, Agata Mari （The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America） 97 （ 2 ） 139-165 2003
■International Reception of Japanese Comics based on large-scale bibliographic data analysis
・Research Objective: A new approach towards Identifying and Listing Manga Authors using large datasets
- タイトル: Using VIAF Dataset and the National Bibliography for Identifying and Listing Comics and Manga Authors, Otani Yasuharu, Agata Teru, Hashizume Akiko, Eto Masaki, Agata Mari, Sugie Noriko （2019 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)） 422-423 2019年6月
・Research Objective: A Method for the Automatic Classification of Manga Using Hierarchical Clustering and Principal Component Analysis Based on Holdings Data from Japanese Public Libraries
- タイトル: Can Japanese Manga Be Automatically Classified from Public Library Holdings?, Eto Masaki, Agata Teru, Sugie Noriko, Otani Yasuharu, Agata Mari （2017 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)） 1-2 2017年6月
■Book Deterioration and Preservation
・Research Objective: To investigate the proportion of adhesive-bound books in university libraries, clarify their condition, and examine the reasons for deterioration
- Title: Reasons for Deterioration of Adhesive Bound Books: Collection Condition Survey in the Keio University Library, Okada Masahiko, Agata Mari, Kojima Hiroyuki, Tanifuji Yumiko, Ueda Shuichi （Library and Information Science） 64 33-53 Dec. 2010
■Document Structure and Decipherability
・Research Objective: To propose a method for determining the decipherability of documents based on the presence or absence of document structure
- Title: Determining the possibility of deciphering an unintelligible text by text clustering: the case of the Voynich Manuscript, Agata Teru, Agata Mari （Library and Information Science） 61 1-23 Jun. 2009
■From Manuscripts to Print
・Research Objective: To compare the physical characteristics of the Gutenberg Bible to selected manuscript Vulgate Bibles of the fifteenth century to determine the extent to which B42 followed the manuscript tradition and introduced new features
- Title: The Gutenberg Bible and the manuscript tradition, Agata Mari （Library and Information Science） 54 19-41 Mar. 2006

Areas of Research

・Analytical Bibliography, Library and Information Science, Humanities and Social Information Science

Social Contributions

・Enhancing our understanding of historical changes with shifts in media by analyzing early European print culture.
・Developping new methodologies for analyzing typecasting techniques, a foundational technology of print culture, thereby advancing a deeper understanding of early printing technologies.
・Claryfying how japanese manga has been received globally through large-scale bibliographic data analysis.