Liu, Xia, Wuhan University Library, China

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.

The presentation will give a comprehensive introduction to this digital library project,
including the following issues:  1) principles, methods & contents, 2) project management & organization, 3) project implementation, 4) project achievement, and 5) further work

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