Andrew Treloar, Director, Australian National Data Service Establishment Project The closing keynote for PRDLA 2008 takes a data-centric look at the history of scholarly communication,
n April 2008, the University of California, San Diego sent its first shipment of books to be digitized as part of the Google Book Search Library Project, a global effort launched in 2004 to digitize collections from the world’s top universities and libraries to make them searchable and discoverable online.
This paper explores the principles that underpin the the digital library program at UCLA, examples of collections being digitized, and the partnerships being developed to enhance the digital library collections, including discussion of the collaborative nature of creating metadata, joint projects, and collaborative agreements.
Brian Flaherty, Assistant University Librarian-Library IT, University of Auckland Martha Chantiny, Division Head for Library Information Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa Robin Chandler, Director,
Rita Wong, Deputy Librarian and Head of Information Technology & Planning, The Chinese University of Hong Kong The paper will briefly describe digitization projects in
David Palmer, Hong Kong University Presentation [PDF]
The University of Hong Kong Libraries has begun two initiatives this year employing IT to improve its services to readers:
Rare Book Digitisation Project. The Libraries have allowed the iGroup to set up a scanning shop in its Main Library. Initially it will be used to scan 4,000 western language monographs in its rare book collection dealing mainly with China. It will then be used for other special collections projects.
RFID: The Libraries have partnered with the university’s own E-Business Technology Institute (ETI), IBM, and Tagsys to employ RFID technology in 1.3 million volumes in its Main Librar
The Repository of Special Collections (RSC) is a sub-project of China Academic Library & Information System (CALIS) during China’s tenth Five-years Plan. It is headed by Wuhan University Library and follows unified Digital Library standards and protocols such as Metadata Standards, OAI Protocol, OpenURL and METS. Fifty-two academic libraries have joined the project. Within three years of development, 58 of 63 sub-projects passed the peer review of Project Expert Board in 2007 and began to serve the public.
Recently one of my history colleagues and I completed the digitization of the Register of Chinese Immigrants to Canada from 1885 to 1949. The list includes just under 100,000 names of individual immigrants, most of whom paid an entry tax designed to limit immigration from China to Canada. Our intent has always been to allow public access to this information for research purposes, and to this end we have entered into a partnership with Library and Archives Canada that now allows the database to be used for genealogical research. While I began this project as an historian, when I started my work in the UBC Library I could see new opportunities for collaboration with librarians and, by extension, similar collaborative opportunities for many faculty members in the social sciences and humanities. My presentation outlines the nature of the research project, identify some of its preliminary findings, and comments on the possibilities for new forms of collaboration.
Dr. Sim Chuin Peng, Head of Chinese Library, NUS Libraries, Singapore Abstract The Chinese Library of NUS Libraries has a growing unique collection of historical
This presentation will outline the National Library of New Zealand’s work on digital preservation, how the National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) fits into that work, what is expected to be delivered through the NDHA, and how the organisation is preparing to integrate the new systems.
China-US Million Book Digital Library Project, also called CADAL, is a cooperated mass digitization project of universities and institutes in China and USA. The CADAL Project has scanned 1.43 million books and other items, mainly from the collections of 16 well-known academic libraries in China, funded by the Ministry of Education of China (MOE). Zhejiang University Libraries has organized and led the digitization process. This presentation reveals the progress in and issues of the mass digitization project, such as the content selection, technology for scanning, OCR, metadata, copyright and access to the digital products.
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