Technology - Pacific Rim Research Libraries Alliance

Mass digitization of the collections of the academic libraries in China

October 13, 2008 No Comments

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.

Applying 21st Century Technology to the World's Longest-Lived Oceanographic Data Set

October 18, 2007 No Comments

Ardys Kozbial, University of California, San Diego Libraries View Presentation (PDF)

Advanced Imaging: Polynomial Texture Maps and Digital Rollouts

October 17, 2007 No Comments

Todd Grappone, University of Southern California Presentation is not available at this time.

Current State of Digital Development at National Taiwan University

October 17, 2007 No Comments

Jieh Hsiang, National Taiwan University View Presentation (PDF)

The Digital Map of Hydropower Station in China

August 18, 2006 No Comments

Wuhan University Library is providing access to the invaluable content of hydropower resources in the form of a GIS digital map. Based on the specialty of data organization, display mode and retrieval strategy, this presentation will examine three areas related to digital maps.

ChronopolisTM: Federated Digital Preservation Environment Using Data Grid Technologies

August 16, 2006 No Comments

An overview of the UCSD/NCAR/University of Maryland Chronopolis^TM preservation environment,
including ingestion, curation, preservation, distributed storage, data replication and storage management
tools and services.

Building a blended e-Learning System for the Quality Education in Traditional University: SNU Cas

August 15, 2006 No Comments

Hye-Jung Lee, Center for Teaching and Learning, Seoul National University View Presentation (PDF)

Digital Preservation in MBP

August 15, 2006 No Comments

This presentation will introduce the storage structure of the Million Book Project and discuss how to
deal with large capacities (about 100TB.) It will also highlight the problems encountered and the plans to solve the problems.

Putting Collections on the Map: the USC Digital Archive and Geographic Information Systems Prototype Project

November 1, 2005 No Comments

The USC Digital Archive, presented at the 2004 PRDLA meeting, now contains 132,000 publicly available digital images and metadata displayed via a newly designed user interface. The focus remains on the presentation of local, area, state, US and Pacific Rim-related content, searchable across all collections or by individual collection. A recently completed prototype project tested whether efficient, appropriate spatial search tools could be easily integrated into the Digital Archive. The project has resulted in three new services–a clickable map, a gazetteer, and a geocoder—that provide new filters for guiding the identification and selection of content.

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