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Internet has become an indispensable infra-structure on the earth with more and more high speed digital information services provided year by year. Correspondingly, a wide variety of content is created, stored and distributed. This includes not only text but also speeches, music, pictures and videos. On the Internet, an unbelievably large amount of content of every kind is accessible from anywhere in the world, and a smart, intelligent information retrieval system has become major priority. People are not satisfied with the current retrieval systems. In Japan there are research and development projects for new generation retrieval systems, where a central issue is how to guarantee the trustworthiness and the authenticity of the retrieved information. Another serious issue is that content on the Internet is not organized systematically, and is not necessarily suitable for everybody to use. Self organization of varieties of information into a knowledge system will be another important technology to be developed in the future. Digital libraries that provide reliable content with rich related information using relatively simple access methods act as a kind of standard reference to establish technologies to solve the issues above. Because the scope of information access is all over the world, multilingual machine translation is an indispensable technology. The paper will discuss these problems by surveying the state of the art of content and knowledge processing.

Cyberinfrastructure is now considered crucial in many countries, not only for advancing scientific researches but also for promoting educational activities based on digital contents such as scholarly databases, e-journals and coursewares in higher education. The Cyber Science Infrastructure (CSI) is one of such initiatives which was launched in Japan. In this talk, the current activities in CSI will be described, putting emphasis on scholarly information sharing and dissemination.

Ongoing initiatives that offer potential collaboration and cooperation among LIS educators, particularly in the Asia Pacific context, are identified and discussed. By no means being exhaustive, these areas include hosting and participating in workshops, symposiums and conferences; implementing a portal for education; developing a repository of learning objects and resources; assuring quality through accreditation; and promoting and sustaining research and scholarship. These are highlighted with the aim to foster and promote dialogue among LIS educators, researchers and practitioners, and to engender participation in these activities. Collectively, these areas lay a foundation to create an informal network to improve information exchange and dissemination, knowledge sharing and creation, and research collaboration, thereby helping to further improve and ensure high standards of LIS education, practice and research in the region.

Despite the success of Internet access via search technology, it has become increasing plain that such a mode is inadequate when applied to holdings in a Web Archives. A greater amount of relevant contextual information is essential in accessing Web Archives. The degree of relevance of the contextual information has to be customized to suit research on culture and heritage study over time. Information scientists have long been struggling to find a system that can help them organize Web Archives so that users can have access to complete and coherent collections. In this paper, we demonstrated how annotation, more than just an intuitive way of expressing one’s thoughts on the materials under study, is in fact an appropriate tool for cataloging web archives in order to ensure a high quality of access for users. After a demonstration of access to archived web materials, we recommended a way of organizing web archives based on several design principles for a web annotation system that preserves the evidence and context of the cataloging process. Only by adhering to these principles can web archives cataloging be said to have incorporated the collaborative cataloging ideals of the semantic web movement. Implementing our web annotation system will help ensure better quality archives with more evidence and contextual information preserved within the system.

With the Educational use of Cultural heritage Archives and Cross(X) search (CEAX), we have investigated how to establish a framework for managing various kinds of information on cultural heritage objects and how to utilize them for educational purposes. To achieve this goal, we propose a conceptual framework in this paper called “Growing Metadata” and a flexible content management system called Owlery. Growing Metadata includes not only factual descriptions of objects but also various annotations about the objects, such as metadata for children, course materials prepared by school teachers, classroom reports, etc., and are reusable for search and educational purposes. Owlery is a software platform to create, share, utilize and reuse the Growing Metadata, and in which various metadata and annotations are managed in different levels of authenticity, authorship, and user groups. As a result of the experimental classes for 89 6th-grade children, our framework was found to be efficient and accepted by the content creators, like museum experts, content annotators and shool teachers.

The importance of folklore can be manifested by Alan Jabbour’s speech in the 100^th anniversary of American Folklore Society-“folklore reflects on the ancestral missions that have shapes us, the inherited values that we reflect and must radiate into the future”. Currently, most of the digital preservation projects focus mainly on digitizing artifacts, in which the crafts of how to make them and skills of how to use them are neglected. Besides, folklore and religious rituals embed spiritual meanings. Step-by-step procedure of a ritual is not trivial for a people or a religion. The motivation of this project are manifested in three aspects: (1) folklore crafts, skills, and rituals play the same important roles in preserving our ancestor’s wisdom in addition to folklore artifacts; (2) media richness facilitates learning of courses with high uncertainty and equivocality; and (3) e-learning with interactive videos gains more learner satisfaction than non-interactive and traditional classroom learning according to recent studies. In this paper, video clips are used for recording step-by-step crafts, skills, and rituals. The metadata used here are modified from our previous work regarding digital preservation of Taiwanese folklore artifacts by emphasizing the “Relation” element in linking individual steps together. A website served as an extension to digital library of folklore artifacts has been constructed to be used as an e-learning platform for folklore education in obligatory and higher education. The system not only constructs a digital library for folklore preservation but provides instructional interactive materials with media richness to support a more effective method for folklore education than non-interactive or traditional classroom learning.

The National Digital Archives Program (NDAP), Taiwan has developed advanced technologies for managing digital video archives. The technologies enable us to build indexing systems for fast retrieval of digital video contents, and add values to the contents. This paper takes the Digital Museum of Taiwan’s Social and Humanities Video Archive project as a case study to demonstrate the role of information science technologies in developing digital video archive systems and digitizing video and audio resources. By sharing our experience and the technologies developed in our research, we hope to provide digital content providers and researchers with guidelines for the design and development of digital video archive systems and value-added video/audio data.

The research project presented in this paper aims to meet the need for courses in Chinese traditional calligraphic art through the use of digitalized paintings. Thus, this paper delineates vital aspects associated in converting such materials to e-formats and the platform on which digital archives and digital learning may become possible. Moreover, the construction of a platform for integrating digital content with e-learning creates a frontier, opening up new resources in Chinese traditional calligraphic painting instruction.

The Virginia Tech (VT) Department of Computer Science (CS) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) School of Information and Library Science (LIS) are developing curricular materials for digital library (DL) education, appropriate for the CS and LIS communities. Educational modules will be designed, based on input from the project advisory board, Computing Curriculum 2001, the 5S framework, and workshop discussions. These modules will be evaluated, first through expert inspection and, second, through field testing. We are identifying and refining module definitions and scopes, collecting related resources, developing a module template, and creating example modules. These will be presented at the conference. The developed curriculum should contribute to producing well-balanced digital librarians who will graduate from CS or LIS programs.

OAI-PMH has been widely adopted as a simple solution for harvesting the metadata of different repositories automatically. Harvesting digital resources described by the metadata is outside of the scope of the OAI-PMH data model. However, there are some growing needs to make resources, not only metadata, harvestable by an interoperable manner in the distributed heterogeneous environments. In this paper, we present the new approach of digital resource harvesting, which uses Message Queue-based communication mechanism as the datastream transfer method, and ensures the request and response message specification built on METS during the course of data transfer. The approach can harvest digital resources solely or synergically with OAI-PMH. A case study about this approach applied in CALIS_ETD digital library will be introduced in the end.