Building an E-Infrastructure for Digital Libraries as A Model for Regional and International Cultural Cooperation
November 28, 2011
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Rita Wong——City University of Hong Kong Library Presentation [PDF]
Rita Wong——City University of Hong Kong Library Presentation [PDF]
David Palmer (Hong Kong University) has published an article in Serials Review describing the development of the Pacific Rim Library and its effectiveness in revealing
The definition and purpose of crowdsourcing and social engagement with users will be discussed with particular reference to the Australian Newspapers service, FamilySearch, Wikipedia and the Distributed Proofreaders. These services have harnessed thousands of digital volunteers who transcribe, create, enhance and correct text. The successful strategies which motivated users to help, engage, and develop the outcomes will be examined.
This talk will introduce the process of “wikification”; that is, automatically and judiciously augmenting a plain-text document with pertinent hyperlinks to Wikipedia articles — as though the document were itself a Wikipedia article. We first describe how Wikipedia can be used to determine semantic relatedness, and then introduce a new, high-performance method of wikification that exploits Wikipedia’s 60 M internal hyperlinks for relational information and their anchor texts as lexical information, using simple machine learning.
The current status of University of Hawaii at Manoa Library Pacific-related image collections, the Pacific Collection future plans and wish lists for digitization of additional collections and their relationship with existing collections in the ODiL will be described. Hawaii-related collections of images (Save our Surf) as well as text (Hawaiian Historical Society) will be highlighted and recent experiments with updating the Annexation of Hawaii web site and the UHM Library’s participation in the U.S. National Digital Newspaper Program will also be described.
Next-Generation Technical Services (NGTS) is an initiative developed by the University of California Libraries as an outgrowth of the UC Libraries Bibliographic Services Task Force Report and a strategic partnership with OCLC to develop a “Next-Generation Melvyl” to re-architect the systemwide OPAC in order to transform the user experience of search and retrieval.
This presentation analyzes the nine-year experience of an academic digital library, e-Asia, which now holds over 4,000 items. In many respects, the e-Asia library is a long-running experiment. Yet the project is mature enough to provided lessons in what to do (and what not to do) when digital text is the focus of collection building. Unlike traditional libraries where, over time, books migrate to and from their shelves, digital libraries hold content that remains relatively immobile while it is the digital “shelves” that change and migrate over time.
Catherine Quinlan – Dean of the USC Libraries Hugh McHarg – Executive Director of Communications and Public Programming, USC Libraries The new University of Southern
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.
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.
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.
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