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.

The broad topic of the paper is digital and intellectual property rights management and the open access movement. These will have an enormous impact on the dissemination of very current research at costs far below those charged by commercial publishers, in some cases at no charge. This reformation of scholarly communication processes will allow very rapid advancement of developing nations, and may bring beneficial as well as detrimental change to those nations and the rest of the world. My approach will be from the perspective of a librarian with a doctoral degree in cultural anthropology.

A 12-month University of Otago Library feasibility project aims to examine some of the key challenges and potentials of managing, curating and sharing digital and digitized research data from our own academic institution. The Project is ‘wrapped around’ the context of biodiversity or ‘biological diversity of life’. (New Zealand is an internationally recognised ‘biodiversity hotspot’ with a high number of globally unique and threatened species.)