NIT (then, now and tomorrow) and its impact on global digital library development, Chinese

Memory Net (CMNet), and beyond

Ching-chih Chen

NIT 2001 - Global Digital Library Development in the New Millennium: Fertile Ground for Distributed Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

A Celebration Event on the 90th Anniversary of Tsinghua University

First Chinese Delegation to MIT, 1979

President Wang visit to MIT, 1998?

The Birth of Tsinghua’s Architecture DL – 2/2000

Connection with the Chinese Library Community

My First Speaking in China at the Chinese History Museum, Tianmen Square, 1979

A packed attentive audience of 1,000

My Long Association with the National Library of China beginning in 1979

IFLA, Beijing, 1996 at People’s Great Hall, Tianmen Square, with Deputy Minister Zhou and Prof. Sun of National Library of China

Peking University’s Anniversary Celebration Meeting – October 1998

Connection with the Computer Science Community

Project 860 – High-level Computer Science Training Course – August 1999 -

Connection with the CulturalCommunity

PROJECT EMPEROR-I: The First Emperor of China (1983)The First NEH’s Major Technology Project

• A perfect example on the use of multimedia technology

• Technology is insensitive of Time and Geography

• Technology can bring the east and west together

• The beginning of a “virtual library”

Voyager’s Interactive Videodisc & Multimedia CD

• 15 years ago it was incredible that we could have 108,000 pictures on the videodisc and the interactive videodisc can provide the information seekers incredible array of needed multimedia information,

• It demonstrated that the MM technology can change the way we seek, demand, and use information.

• Generated heavy media coverage in public media and broadcast of over 15 countries.

The Global Digital Library - Conceptual Diagram (Presented at the International Conference on National Libraries –

Towards the 21st Century, Taipei, April 1993

NIT: Then and Now

First Pacific Conference on NIT, Bangkok, 1987

2nd Pacific Conference on NIT, Singapore, 1989

NIT ‘90, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1990

NIT ‘91, Budapest, 1991 NIT ‘92, Hong Kong, 1992

NIT ‘93, Puerto Rico, 1993

NIT ‘94, Alexandria, VA, 1994

NIT ‘95, Riga, Latvia, 1995 NIT ‘96, Pretoria, South Africa, 1996

NIT ‘98, Hanoi, Vietnam, 1998

NIT ‘99, Taipei, 1999

NIT’s Information Network Spans over 30 countries

Information Technology Research:

Investing in Our Future

Final Report of the President’s Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (Feb. 1999)

IT Has Transformed Our Lives

• IT is transforming our lives in many ways• Ten critical “National Challenge Transformations” identified

by PITAC• These transformations used to identify critical IT challenges

—Transforming –the way we communicate –the way we deal with information –the way we learn–the practice of health care–the nature of commerce –the nature of work –how we design and build things –how we conduct research –our understanding of the environment –government

NIT has shifted more to Global Digital Library Development

The Birth of Chinese Memory Net

NSF’s IDLP (International Digital Library Program)

Introduced in 1999, the new IDLP program (NSF 99-6) is intended to contribute to the fundamental knowledge required to create information systems that can operate in multiple languages, formats, media, and social and organizational contexts.

International Digital Libraries Program (IDLP)

Goals To enable users to easily access digital collections,

regardless of location, language or formats To enable broad use in research, education, commerce

and other purposes Research will be on:

Interoperable technologies Technology for intellectual property protection Methods and standards for ensuring long-term

interoperability among distributed and separately administered databases, world data-mining etc…

Cooperative research can help avoid duplication of effort, prevent the development of fragmented digital systems, and encourage productive interchange of knowledge and data around the world.

CMNet - Research Areas to be Explored

Multilingual information systems, and cross-language retrieval systems; Multi-national digital libraries including sound, data, image, multimedia,

software…; Interoperability and scalability technology to permit large world-wide collections; Metadata techniques and tools; Invaluable contents -- linking Chinese historical, cultural and heritage information

systems of the best institutions in the US, Taiwan and China; Preservation and archiving of digital scholarly information, including technology

and procedures for long-term information asset management; Social aspects of digital libraries and cross-cultural context studies; Instructional use of digital libraries at all levels of instruction; Economic and copyright issues: authentication, rights, and fair use; and Electronic publishing and scholarly communication technology, including

collaboratories, online repositories, and new methods of organizing scientific knowledge distribution.

Ching-chih Chen - Feb. 22, 2000Modified on Mar. 28, 2000

CMNet’s Initial CollaboratorsExpected Synergy

USSimmons CollaboratorsAffiliates

BeijingPeking UniversityTsinghua

University

ShanghaiJiaotung University

TaipeiAcademia SinicaNational Taiwan

UniversityNational Tsinghua

University

CMNet - Research Areas to be Explored

Multilingual information systems, and cross-language retrieval systems; Multi-national digital libraries including sound, data, image, multimedia,

software…; Interoperability and scalability technology to permit large world-wide collections; Metadata techniques and tools; Invaluable contents -- linking Chinese historical, cultural and heritage information

systems of the best institutions in the US, Taiwan and China; Preservation and archiving of digital scholarly information, including technology

and procedures for long-term information asset management; Social aspects of digital libraries and cross-cultural context studies; Instructional use of digital libraries at all levels of instruction; Economic and copyright issues: authentication, rights, and fair use; and Electronic publishing and scholarly communication technology, including

collaboratories, online repositories, and new methods of organizing scientific knowledge distribution.

Ching-chih Chen - Feb. 22, 2000Modified on Mar. 28, 2000

Net has multiples meanings: In the net-worked environment Use this and Next Generation Internet Connect distributed digital libraries in

different parts of the world Creating a synergetic informal network of

researchers on similar research interest etc

Ching-chih Chen - Feb. 22, 2000Modified on Mar. 28, 2000

CMNet (Chinese Memory Net): US-Sino Collaborative Research Toward A Global Digital Library in Chinese Studies

Chinese Memory Net: First Exploratory Meeting – Feb. 2000

Chinese Memory Net: First Exploratory Meeting – Feb. 2000

The Third CMNet Collaborator – Feb. 2001 Visit

At this conference, there will be several presentations made by CMNet collaborators and affiliates. At Simmons, I have capitalize the enormous multimedia resources on the First Emperor of China and start pushing the envelop to explore various possibilities. Emperor’s rich data are also shared with CMNet collaborators… This becomes a common thread to link many projects together.

Go to Emperor Prototype Exhibition

The Challenge:

WORLD DIGITAL CONTENT

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Cornell Columbia Canadiana MOA I, II * CMU UL Virginia AmericanMemory *

EPSCoR

* 10 items =1 volume

volumes

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With great anticipation!

China-US Million Book Digital Library Project

Remember the Challenge: Build the Great Wall