Collaborative Digitization Projects

  • PRDLA will fund member digitization projects
  • must be collaborative within PRDLA with participation of at least two members
  • up to $50,000 per year
  • multiple awards within available funds
  • simple narrative application
  • PRDLA Steering Committee assesses and approves or denies
  • no application deadline
  • Approved by PRDLA Steering Committee 16 October 2007

Collaborative Digitization Project: Oceania Digital Library

US$50,000 awarded (with unanimous endorsement of membership) on 17 October 2007 to the libraries of the University of Auckland, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the University of California, San Diego to collaboratively create the Oceania Digital Library (OdiL), a single point of access for researchers seeking information about the cultures and history of Oceania (Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia). Hong Kong University has joined the project and will be hosting ODiL data.

Reports and presentations

Pacific Rim Library (PRL – pronounced “pearl”)

The OAI Pilot Project was launched in 2005 to harvest metadata about digital collections created by PRDLA member institutions. The  archive, hosted by Hong Kong University, contains the metadata only (not complete digital objects) of at least one digital collection from 24 PRDLA member institutions.

OAI Pilot Project Charge

Charge to OAI Technical and Content Committees, Dec 2007

PRL Graphic Presence Task Group Charge, Feb 2009

PRDLA Interlibrary Loan Pilot Project

At the 2005 PRDLA meeting in Hawaii, it was decided that PRDLA would attempt an interlibrary loan pilot project as a means of sharing resources among members of the alliance. The project, headed by Director Xue Fangyu of Tsinghua University, was a one-year experiment with no-fee, non-returnable interlibrary loans between PRDLA member institutions on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean. The pilot concluded in 2007.
ILL Project Charge
ILL Statistics, August 2006

Chinese Digital Archive, 1966-1976

A project at Australia National University was established to develop an electronic gateway to a number of unique and in some cases rare and fragile collections in both print and microfilm relating to the Chinese Cultural Revolution period (1966 to 1976). This web-based database not only makes this material accessible globally to the academic community but preserves the contents of some very fragile and rare material.