http://www.prdla.org Academic libraries joined together to improve access to scholarly research materials throughout the Pacific Rim Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:37:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 2010 PRDLA annual meeting will be hosted by Fudan University in Shanghai, China 20-22 October. Tickets for the World Expo to be held in Shanghai 1 May - 31 October have already been booked so that PRDLA meeting attendees may tour the Expo after the meeting. Save the dates! http://www.prdla.org/2010/01/prdla-2010-shanghai/ 2009 ODiL Update: UCSD [PPT] http://www.prdla.org/2009/12/oceania-digital-library-2009-update-from-ucsd/ David Palmer (Hong Kong University) has published an article in Serials Review describing the development of the Pacific Rim Library and its effectiveness in revealing objects in digital collections that are hidden in the Deep Web. http://www.prdla.org/2009/10/the-pacific-rim-library-a-surprising-pearl/ Ruth Pagell – University Librarian, Singapore Management University Paolina Martin – Director, Institutional Repository, Singapore Management UniversityThe Li Ka Shing Library adopted a strategic and collaborative approach in implementing its institutional repository. Engaging the institution’s policy stakeholders including the University’s Provost early in the day, a strategic planning and governance ... http://www.prdla.org/2009/10/ir-sustainability-through-stakeholder-governance/ Paolina Martin – Director, Institutional Repository, Singapore Management UniversityImagine coming to a forum where your most pressing agenda is discussed in an environment of people and information flow. Yes, people flow! Employing a knowledge sharing technique called Open Space Technology or OST, the forum will engage you within a setting ... http://www.prdla.org/2009/10/pacific-open-space-forum/ Rose Holley - Manager, Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program, National Library of AustraliaThe definition and purpose of crowdsourcing and social engagement with users will be discussed with particular reference to the Australian Newspapers service http://newspapers.nla.gov.au, FamilySearch http://familysearchindexing.org, Wikipedia http://wikipedia.org and the Distributed Proofreaders http://www.pgdp.net. These services have harnessed thousands of ... http://www.prdla.org/2009/10/crowdsourcing-and-social-engagement/ Y.C. Wan – Head, Main Library and Fung Ping Shan (East Asia) Library, University of Hong Kong LibrariesThe 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 ... http://www.prdla.org/2009/10/preserving-and-reconstructing-hong-kong%e2%80%99s-historical-past/ Ian Witten – Professor of Computer Science, University of WaikatoWikipedia is a goldmine of information; not just for its many readers, but also for the growing community of researchers who recognize it as a resource of exceptional scale and utility. It represents a vast investment of manual effort and ... http://www.prdla.org/2009/10/wikipedia-and-semantic-document-representation/ Barbara Taylor – Access and Development Service Manager, University of Otago Library This presentation discusses data management within the context of the University of Otago. It follows up on the Library’s Biodiversity Data Management Project that ended in mid 2009 and was the theme of a presentation at PRDLA 2008. “One ... http://www.prdla.org/2009/10/one-year-after-digital-developments-otago/ Martha Chantiny - Library Information Technology,  University of Hawaii at ManoaThe current status of University of Hawaii at Manoa Library Pacific-related image collections including the Steve Thomas Traditional Voyaging, George Grace and Margo Duggan collections, all posted to the web using the OAI harvestable Streetprint Digital Library software and the ... http://www.prdla.org/2009/10/oceania-digital-library-2/