Editing Japanese Canadian Artist Directory (section)

===Project background===

The Japanese Canadian Artist Directory was created as an online update to a print directory, ''Japanese Canadians in the Arts'', compiled by [http://www.asiancanadianwiki.org/w/Aiko_Suzuki Aiko Suzuki] and published in 1994. Discussion and consultation for the project began in 2016, and editorial meetings, research, and website design occurred in 2017. Editorial committee members from Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Toronto met regularly online in order to provide a nationwide perspective in the creation of the website. Initial research for the directory included reaching out to artists listed in the 1994 directory and inviting them to submit updated profiles, forming the core of the website's legacy component. The website went live with a soft launch in the summer of 2017, with some 300 artist profiles compiled during a research phase, and an online interface that allows artists to register and submit their profiles directly to the website. The Japanese Canadian Artist Directory was officially launched in September 2017 at the National Association of Japanese Canadians' 2017 AGM and Conference in Ottawa.