A few personal notes

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A few personal notes

• Delighted to be at HKUST (remember NIT 92 with
• Mimmin Changs staff!) So happy to see so
  many old friends!
• It is an honor to celebrate the 10th Anniversary
  of HKIUG
• Would like to thank Dr. Samson Soong and the
  IUGs Executives for inviting me
• Special thanks goes to Dr. Soongs incredible
  staff for all the efforts and care. Specifically
  to Alice Ho for her careful logistical
  arrangement!

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The Global Digital Library - Conceptual Diagram
(Presented at the International Conference on
National Libraries Towards the 21st Century,
Taipei, April 1993)
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• Vision
• Anyone Anywhere Anytime can have access to
  information and ANY human knowledge through the
  use of global information network
• This is easily said then done!
• We are a long way to this!
• Give us great challenge!
• Where do we begin?

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Digital Librarys Conceptual Model
Ching-chih Chen, Howard Wactlar, James Z. Wang
and Kevin Kiernan, "Digital Imagery for
Significant Cultural and Historical Materials -
An Emerging Research Field Bridging People,
Culture, and Technologies," International
Journal on Digital Libraries, 5 275-285 (2005).
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CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPING A WORLD DIGITAL
LIBRARY (1)

• Using web as a platform to enable more user
  participation, and not using Web for publishing,
• Providing seamlessly integrated multimedia
  information services to enrich user experience,
• Providing innovative information services, and
  not offering packaged software for building
  databases,
• Users need and behavior in information seeking
  should not be pre-determined, thus the search and
  retrieval capabilities have to be able to
  anticipate and accommodate all kinds of needs,
• User needs to control the use of data, thus
  he/she can choose to search one single collection
  or multi-collections,

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CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPING A WORLD DIGITAL
LIBRARY (2)

• Knowledge base and not just database(s),
  therefore once simple information is found, user
  can and should be enriched with more related
  multimedia information, and mixable or re-mixable
  resources if desired,
• Provide freely accessible and searchable web
  resources, and not just link with them,
• Enhance user experience and ability to consume
  the obtained information, multilingual
  capabilities are essential for both presentation
  as well as retrieval,
• User should be able to lead from one tiny useful
  information to play big and link that to the
  world collections as well as world bibliographic
  and web resources,

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CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPING A WORLD DIGITAL
LIBRARY (3)

• User should be able to address the content in any
  granularity,
• Geographical access to content should be
  provided,
• Intellectual property of the content provider
  should be protected (dynamic digital WM),
• User should be able to use the discovered and
  retrieved data to develop his/her own project(s),
• User should be able to actively contribute to
  the library Be a contributor!

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Living in a new period of unprecedented
opportunities and challenges!

• Witnessing the exciting convergence of
• content,
• technology
• global collaboration
• with great potential for providing universal
  information access.

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Global Memory NetFast digital community and
content building

• Growing number of individual digital
  collec-tions from collaborators
• UNESCOs Memory of the World
• Library of Congress Asia Divisions collections
• World National Libraries
• World digital collections 2400 selected ones
• Etc

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New Exciting DevelopmentFirst US World
Heritage Digital Center

• UNESCOs Memory of the World is already on Global
  Memory Net. Designated Memory site of over 90
  countries are involved.
• October 27, 2006 Signed Memorandum of
  Understanding
• with UNESCO
  World Heritage Center
• Link 830 current World Heritage sites of 138
  countries together using the Global Memory Net
  technologies.
• Create an integrated multimedia, multilingual
  digital memory of the world.
• China has 33 such sites including Forbidden
  City, The Great Wall, Summer Palace, Temple of
  Heaven, Qin Terracotta Museum in Xian, etc. Hong
  Kong and Macau area has one.

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And more
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Real-Time Demonstration

• To illustrate the features of Global Memory Net
  how we attempt to meet the challenges outlined
  above, half of this talk will be devoted to
  real-time demonstration over the Internet.

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Acknowledgment

• PROJECT EMPEROR-I was supported by National
  Endowment for the Humanities
• US National Science Foundations International
  Digital Library Program
• NSF/CISE/IIS-9905833
• NSF/CISE/IIS-0333036