Landscaping Taiwans Cultural Commonwealth:

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• Landscaping Taiwans Cultural Commonwealth
• The Making of TELDAP Collection Level
  Descriptions

Hsueh-hua Chen ???
Professor of Library and Information
Science University LibrarianNational Taiwan
University Co-PI, International Collaboration
and Promotion, TELDAP (Taiwan e-Learning
Digital Archives Program) sherry_at_ntu.edu.tw
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TAIWAN

• An island with multiple cultures and a myriad of
  creatures
• ? Land 36K km2
• ? Population 23M
• ? A melting pot of multiple
• cultures, including
• - Chinese (Min-nan,
• Hakka)
• - Indigenous Peoples
• - Immigrants from
• Vietnam, Indonesia,
• Thailand
• Home to more than 46,000
• species of flora and fauna

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History
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TELDAP-- Objectives

• To showcase the cultural, social and biological
  diversity of Taiwan.
• To promote the application of technologies and
  digital contents in cultural, academic,
  socio-economic and educational development.
• To establish digital archives and e-learning
  industries.
• To improve the use of e-learning in formal
  education and lifelong learning.
• To establish an e-learning center for Chinese
  language.
• To promote international cooperation network for
  Chinese cultural heritage and e-learning.

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Digital Contents Where are they from?

• Government Agencies
• Institutional Projects
• Public and Private Sectors
• Request-for-Proposals Projects
• The General Public
• Cyber Island

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Institutional Projects
14 Government Agencies contribute to TELDAP
? Academia Historica ? Academia Sinica ? Chinese
Taipei Film Archive ? Council for Cultural
Affairs ? Council for Hakka Affairs ? Council of
Indigenous Peoples ? National Archives
Administration ? National Taiwan University ?
National Central Library ? National Palace
Museum ? National Museum of History ? National
Museum of Natural Science ? Taiwan Historica ?
Taiwan Provincial Consultative Council
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Institutional Projects
Highlight of the National Palace Museum
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Institutional Projects
Highlight of the National Museum of History
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Institutional Projects
Highlight of the National Central Library
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Institutional Projects
Highlight of the Academia Sinica
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Institutional Projects
Highlight of the National Taiwan University
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National Taiwan University????

• ??? NTU Library
• ??? Dept. of Anthropology
• ?? Dept. of Botany
• ?? Dept. of Entomology
• ??(????????)Dept. of Geosciences
• ?? Dept. of Zoology
• ?? Dept. of Physics

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The Content is Categorized into 6 Thematic Groups
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Archaeology (??)

• Niu Fan-Ting (Bronze Square Cauldron with an Ox
  Emblem) ( Royal Tomb m1004, His-pei-kang, Anyang,
  Honan, China) Institute of History and
  Philology, Academia Sinica
• Earthenware vessel with human face (Shih-san-han,
  Taipei, Taiwan)Institute of History and
  Philology, Academia Sinica
• The lithics for Tamalin siteNational Museum of
  Natural Science
• Potsherd , SK siteDepartment of Anthropology,
  National Taiwan University

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Anthropology(???)

• Bai-Yi and Yen-Ka bartering on the market at
  Mon-Don, Yunan, ChinaInstitute of History and
  Philology, Academia Sinica
• Necklace National Museum of Natural Science
• Melsi dancing of Tsou's Da-ban subgroupInstitute
  of Ethnology, Academia Sinica.
• The beaded headband Dept. Anthropology,
• National Taiwan University

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Archives(??)

• Digital File of Foreign Archives Institute of
  Modern History, Academia Sinica
• The Sunset of Mt. MorrisonNational Central
  Library Taiwan Branch and Institute of Taiwan
  History, Academia Sinica
• Imperial Edicts National Palace Museum
• An Official Letter to Command Turning in the
  Detailed Records of Land Trading, etc. National
  Taiwan University Library
• Ilan City MapTaiwan Historica
• Taipei City Urban Planning Document National
  Central Library

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Artifacts(??)

• Ya-chou square kuei ( Late Shang Dynasty or
  Early Western Chou)
• Jade drinking cup in the shape of an animal horn
  adorned with a dragon (Han Six Dynasties period)
  
• Jadeite cabbage with insects (Ching
  Dynasty)National Palace Museum
• Green-glazed brown applied hu, Changsha-ware,
  Tang dynasty National Museum of History

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Calligraphy Paintings(??)

• Early Spring (Sung Dynasty)
• National Palace Museum
• Waiting for Guests by Lamplight (Sung Dynasty)
• National Palace Museum
• Ink Lotuses, (Republic Period) National Museum
  of History
• A Deity granting blessing (Ching Dynasty)
  National Museum of History

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Rare Books(???)

• Hai Sang Wen JiInstitute of History and
  Philology Academia Sinica
• Rare Book ImageNational Palace Museum
• Rare Book ImageNational Palace Museum
• Rare Book ImageNational Central Library

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Stone Bronze Rubbings(????)

• Chu Gong Jia Bell (Bell of aristocracy Jian in
  the Kingdom Chu), in the book Fuzhai Jigu bronze
  inscription Fu Ssu-Nian Library, Academia Sinica
• Description about the Garden Hung-Zhi-YuanNationa
  l Taiwan University Library

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Maps Remote Sensing Images(???????)

• Part of Che_Ba_Kou (Nowadays YueYang, HuNan
  Province and JianLi,,HuBei Province)
• Scale110,000, A.D.1936Academia Sinica
• Part of Topographic Map, Scale 150,000Academia
  Sinica, Ministry of the Interior

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Journalism Mass Media(?????)

• Digital image of newspapersNational Central
  Library

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Botany(??)

• Eria reptans (Franch. Sav.) Makino Institute of
  Botany, Academia Sinica
• Clematis akoensis Hayata Ranunculaceae
  National Museum of Natural Science
• Type specimen (Cunninghamia konishii Hayata,
  Taxodiaceae)TAI Herbarium, National Taiwan Univ.

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Geology(??)

• Placenticeras meeki Bohm, 1898Department of
  Geology
• National Museum of Natural Science
• Celestite Department of Geosciences, National
  Taiwan University

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Zoology(??)

• Pygoplites diacanthus Institute of Zoology,
  Academia Sinica
• Dorsal view of Lambis chiragra . Institute of
  Zoology, Academia Sinica.
• Troidesaeacus kaguya National Museum of Natural
  Science
• Type specimen-- Lauxania nudifrons (Diptera
  Lauxaniidae), lateral view, after digital image
  processingInsect Museum of National Taiwan
  University
• Specimen picture of Taiwan Blue Magpie Institute
  of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology National
  Taiwan University

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TELDAP Chinese Portal
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http//www.digitalarchives.tw/
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Themed Exhibitions - selected special collections
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Union Catalog more than 2 million metadata
records
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Union Catalog
Keyword search Jadeite Cabbage
Dublin Core Metadata
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International Promotion
In order to showcase the cultural heritage and
natural resources of Taiwan to the world as well
as to complement the existing Chinese portal
(http//digitalarchives.tw/) , we have created a
new Digital Taiwan Culture Nature English
portal (http//culture.teldap.tw/).
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Challenges

• What information would international users be
  interested in?
• How should we present these digital collections?

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Difficult Position TELDAP is Placed in

• TELDAP Union Catalog
• Containing more than 2 million records
• Item level metadata only
• For users
• Most of the international users are not familiar
  with the digitized contents in Taiwan, it would
  be hard for them to access the information
  through item level metadata.

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Solution

• Establish Collection Level Description

• Collection descriptions are a way of providing
  roadmaps to enable users to navigate the
  landscape more effectively.

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What is Collection Level Description?

• Collection-Level Description (CLD) A description
  of a collection
• A CLD is a structured, open, standardised form of
  metadata providing a high-level description of an
  aggregation of individual items.

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Functions of CLD

• Enable collection provider to
• Disclose information about the existence and
  availability of digital contents
• Evaluate collection development efforts
• Control holdings more effectively
• Share collection information with other archival
  institutions
• Unearth fields where collaborative management is
  possible
• Enable user to
• Discover cross-domain resources
• Navigate through copious heterogeneous and
  distributed resources
• Understand the general information of collection
  promptly
• Select collections based on summary descriptions
• Access the collection described through a portal

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Establish TELDAP Collection Level Description

• Step 1 Survey CLD related projects and standards
• Projects SCONE? IMLS DCC ?MICHAEL ?CHIN
• Standards
• Dublin Core Collection Description Application
  Profile(DC CD AP)
• RSLP Collection Description Schema
• UKOLN Simple Collection Description

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Establish TELDAP Collection Level Description

• Step 2User needs assessment
• Interview resource users
• Interview resource managers
• Step 3Inventory TELDAP resources
• Inventory TELDAP outputs and resources
• Step 4Identify and select collections to be
  described

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The TELDAP Collection Level Metadata

• TELDAP Collection Level Metadata contains the
  following 30 elements
• General attributesType?Collection
  Identifier?Title?Alternative Title?Description?Siz
  e?Language?Item Type?Item Format?Rights?Access
  Rights?Accrual Method?Accrual Periodicity?Accrual
  Policy?Custodial History?Audience?Subject?Spatial
  Coverage?Temporal Coverage?Dates Collection
  Accumulated?Dates Items Created
• Relationships between the Collection and Agents
  Collector?Owner
• Relationships between the Collection and
  Location, Collection and Service Is Located
  At?Is Accessed Via
• Relationships between Collections
  Sub-Collection?Super-Collection?Catalogue or
  Index?Associated collection
• Relationships between the Collection and other
  resources Associated publication

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Create TELDAP collection level metadata
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Establish TELDAP Collection Level Description

• Digital TaiwanCulture Nature
• Currently contains 137 collections
• The collections are browsed by different facets
  such as subject, institution, time period,
  collections A to Z, etc.

http//culture.teldap.tw/
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Digital Taiwan-Culture Nature
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By Subject
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By Institution
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By Time Period
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In Alphabetical Order
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Digital Taiwan-Culture Nature
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Future Works

• To identify and select more collections
• To add new facetsex media type and location
  will also be considered in the future.
• To set up online registration and management
  system
• To continue multilingual (English, Spanish,
  Japanese) content translation in order to broaden
  international public access.

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References

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  Future. Slides presented at the PNC 2008 Hanoi,
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  and cultural portals, University of
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