PRDLA

15-18 August 2006
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

2006 Membership Meeting Minutes

VIDEO ARCHIVE

Robert Felsing, University of Oregon

The Digital Han Dynasty Project involves the reconstruction of Homer Dubs unpublished works on the
Han dynasty by scholars located in different locations, but linked digitally. The presentation will cover the hardware and software used, and the concrete “products” and associated spin-offs emerging during the course of this project.

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Jeong-Wook Seo, Seoul National University

A new digital library for medical student is established by digitizing analog slides from the personal teaching collection of the medical school faculty. More than 132,000 slides from 15 professors in medical school were collected and transformed into digital contents from July 2002 to 2004. Metadata of those slides were built by professors and medical students. An initial set of 57,000 slides is considered to have a reasonable quality of metadata and used for service now.

Practical issues include technical method for their use during lectures and accumulation of recent content produced by daily practice at the hospital.

To increase the use of the digital content, students are advised to use several groups of available image contents to compare the quality and then present to colleague students. New images from case conferences at the hospital are added to the collection.

Continuous efforts are being made to improve the quality of the data, particularly using the scoring system for analysis of quality of data, collection of contents from patients through the electronic medical records, and invitation of contents from other medical schools in Korea and other countries.

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Mihyang Kim, Seoul National University

Seoul National University (SNU) Library has more than 20 digital collections including rare books, archives, music AOD and medical slides. This digital content is available as part of an integrated system (http://sdl.snu.ac.kr) within the library, as well as via six other websites that are open to the public. Two of the most popular comp onents of the digital library system are the VOD of Academic Events (http://event.snu.ac.kr) and the Insect Collections (http://insect.snu.ac.kr). The VOD of Academic Events began providing event information in 2001. When the library collects event information, it also requests permission to take pictures of the event and to service VODs to the public. This allows the Library to collect and disseminate information, which is essential to developing academic content. Its metadata provides event type information and its metadata formats are classified under three categories: conferences, sessions and articles, which are further classified into groups or single articles. The Insect Collections provide information and pictures related to insects. Compared to other online insect collections, SNU’s collections provide high-quality pictures that have been captured with a camera mounted on a microscope. The website functions primarily as an access point to high-quality specimen images of insects and a retrieval system developed for taxonomists and general users. Its metadata is bound specifically to an insect taxonomy so that it meets taxonomists’ requests for information.

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Rita Wong & Colin Storey, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chinese culture has a long history of written records in paper form. There are at least 3 million Chinese rare books (published from 960 to 1911 A.D.) located in Mainland China and Taiwan, over 300,000 volumes in Europe and 900,000 volumes in the United States. Recently, libraries and commercial entities have initiated a massive digitization of Chinese publications. This calls for a ‘Digital Registry’ to record what has already been digitized, and what is going to be digitized, so that the technology and experience can be shared and the duplication of effort avoided.

The DLF/OCLC Registry of Digital Masters developed by Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a large scale digital registry mainly for digitized Western books.
Currently, searching in public mode with Chinese characters is not possible. The European Library, a portal for 45 national libraries of Europe, similarly provides retrieval of digital objects, but with limited Chinese publication content. The proposed ‘Digital Registry for Chinese Publications’ will serve a similar function to the DLF/OCLC Registry of Digital Masters and will be mounted in a neutral place, such as Hong Kong. The proposed prototype will embrace Chinese rare books in stitch-bound format and modern text. A comprehensive survey will be conducted to ascertain which libraries or other bodies are digitizing and what they are digitizing (i.e. books, journals or newspapers.) The metadata standards employed will be compared. Before a metadata structure for the ‘Digital Registry’ is finalized, reference will be made to the metadata standards for Chinese rare books proposed by Mainland China and Taiwan.

One of the functions of the ‘Digital Registry’ will be the listing of internal codes of Chinese characters used by each library or body in digitization if electronic text is included. Different internal codes, such as GB,
Big 5, CCCII or EACC, are used in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Western world. The ‘Digital Registry’ will also record what Chinese characters are not found in the latest version of Unicode Version 4.0 developed by the Unicode Consortium. The recording of such infrequently used Chinese characters will assist libraries and other units in identifying the occurrence and frequency of specific characters with the ultimate aim of inclusion in the Unicode Standard. Other important data related to digitization will be recorded in the ‘Digital Registry’, such as format, resolution and storage device.

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Meng Zhan, Wuhan University

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. First, it will propose a 3D resource model for knowledge organization. A 3D model enlarges the information of each resource to the spatio-temporal dimension and makes submodels of other representation formats by derivation. Second, the digital map implementation will be discussed. There are three types of geo-feature layers (point, polyline and polygon) and each map layer belongs to one feature type. Through the integrated and simultaneous operations of the three layers, the map display can be varied according to the user’s demands. Third, the Library created a special strategy to realize the interaction between GIS digital map platform and background literature. By using the keyword of each hydropower’s name, a direct relevancy is established. This application of digital maps related to geo-information provides a more efficient, convenient and vivid representation than traditional depictions.

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Brian E. C. Schottlaender, University of California, San Diego

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.

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Tokiko Yamamoto Bazzell, University of Hawaii at Manoa

The mission of the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC) is to promote the exchange of ideas, contacts and resources to facilitate access to Japanese materials. This includes providing librarians and users with training in digital resources, assisting in the expansion of services in smaller institutions, promoting collaborations to increase the international sharing of scholarly materials and developing programs that cross regional and disciplinary borders.

Recognizing that rapid technological changes impact Japanese studies, the Japan Foundation Grant helped the NCC launch an E-Resources initiative in 2004. Its objective was to establish a national strategy for information literacy instruction with a focus on Japanese digital resources. In the first year of the E-Resources initiative, 33 Japanese studies librarians were trained as instructors in information literacy instruction. In the second year, development of the NCC Information Literacy Portal site began. The site was envisioned as a central training material repository for information literacy instructors; as a post-training follow-up tool, and as a self-study site on digital resources. It also provides a forum for individuals who wish to network with a wide-range of people working in the Japanese studies field. This presentation will introduce participants to the NCC’s Information Literacy Portal site.

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Tony Ferguson, Hong Kong University
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Jun-Hyun Jin, Seoul National University
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