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The Hong Kong Memory Project (HKMP) was initiated by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government in 2002. The goal is to establish a web-based digital repository for the collection, preservation, presentation and dissemination of Hong Kong’s unique historical and cultural heritage. In 2006, the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) donated US$10 million to fund the project for 5 years. At the same time, HKJC also asked the Centre of Asian Studies (CAS) and Libraries of The University of Hong Kong (HKUL) to participate in the project, responsible for content development and system setup of the repository.

CAS and HKUL have been working closely together with HKJC, HKSAR Government and other stakeholders to create the digital repository since November 2006. Much has been achieved over the past two and a half years, including putting together a team of dedicated staff, drawing up copyright guidelines and contracts, seeking support from contributors and recently, issuing the tender document for procuring hardware and software of the HKMP system. A prototype website has also been created to gauge comments from target groups through running a series of usability tests. It is expected that the HKMP website would be available to the general public by 2011, before the repository is handed over to the HKSAR Government for continual maintenance and development.

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In 2008, out of the increased mass digitization demands of the University, the Library established the University Digitization Center and one of the two University Data Centers. The goals are to centralize the digitization activities on the campus, to discover and preserve the institutional information resources, and to reinforce implementation of standards and as well as cooperation among different units on the campus.

After years of efforts, Peking University Library now hosts a sizable amount of digital contents. Among them are several local developed digital collections: Ancient Rare Materials Database; Beijing Historical Geography Database; PKU Scholars Database; PKU ETD; PKU Lectures Online, etc. Upon the establishment of the University Digitization Center and the Data Center Library Site, the library started several new digital projects in 2009. One of them is the Min Guo Newspapers and Journals (Newspapers and Journals of the Republic of China).

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In 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 UC San Diego Libraries will contribute thousands of volumes from its East Asia collection and from its International Relations & Pacific Studies Library, in such diverse subject areas as history, literature, political science, public policy and economics. Speakers will discuss the project background, estimated future impacts, local processes, applied standards, technical features, and lessons learned.

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ODiL began with a request for US$50,000 to digitize items from the libraries of the University of Auckland, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the University of California, San Diego as a starting point for the collaborative creation of an “Oceania Digital Library” (ODiL).  The project goal is creation of a single point of access for researchers seeking information about the cultures and history of Oceania (Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia). The digitization request was approved by the PRDLA Steering Committee at the PRDLA 2007 Membership Meeting, University of California, Berkeley on16 October 2007. The project website is: http://odldev.lbr.auckland.ac.nz/. Presenters will also discuss next steps regarding the creation of the ODiL portal and share the list of additional materials they hope to digitize in the future.

U. of Auckland Presentation (PDF)

U. of Hawaii Presentation (PowerPoint)

UC San Diego Presentation (PDF)

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The Chinese Library of NUS Libraries has a growing unique collection of historical documents on Chinese in Southeast Asia.  To preserve and share this research collection of primary and secondary materials with scholars worldwide, NUS Libraries had undertaken a project in 2004, to digitize the documents in our collection, as well as those in other organizations.  Access to this collection is via the website, Historical Documents of Chinese in Southeast Asia.

The project not only achieved the primary aims of preservation and sharing of a special collection with international scholars, but also, to our surprise, provided the much needed publicity to attract potential donors from the public and the scholarly community.  Viewing the collection online had prompted some to offer their personal collections to us voluntarily. It also made it easier when persuading others to donate their personal works or loan their collections for digitization. Most importantly, it helped attract donors to offer monies to help fund our acquisitions efforts in this area. This paper will provide a description of the website and our experiences in digitizing the collection.  We will also share how our collection development efforts benefited from the launch of this website to the public.

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In New Zealand, the issue of preserving the nation’s digital cultural heritage, past, present and future is addressed by legislation and central government policy. The National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa) Act 2003 requires the National Library to collect, preserve, protect and make accessible digital collections, along with traditional paper collections, in ways that ensure current and future access to New Zealand’s documentary heritage.

At implementation level and in line with its own New Generation National Library strategy, the National Library of New Zealand is ensuring it has the infrastructure, technology and organisational structure and work processes to preserve and provide access to the digital heritage collections it is responsible for.

The National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) Programme was established in July 2004. Due to be completed in 2009, the NDHA is being developed and implemented in partnership with Ex Libris Group and Sun Microsystems as a commercial solution to the issue of digital preservation.

The first release of the software has been deployed and has been undergoing a rigorous testing process prior to going live as a full, production system in October.

Concurrent to software development and hardware procurement, organisational readiness to integrate the new system is being strengthened. This includes business change and integration workstreams preparing the organisation for implementation.

The NDHA Programme is also developing tools to integrate the NDHA system with the National Library’s collection management systems and access products. Early outputs include Indigo, an internal submission application.

An NDHA business unit has been established to research and manage digital preservation including the operational activities related to the handling of digital material collected through legal deposit and unpublished donations.

This presentation will outline the National Library’s work on digital preservation, how the 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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Jieh Hsiang, National Taiwan University

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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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Huang Chen, Zhejiang University

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.

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