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This report describes the growth of institutional repositories in Japan and NII’s support projects since 2004. The characteristic features of the process were: (1) the diversity of the partner universities (2) the collaboration between universities and NII, and (3) the fast localization and installation with limited budget.

National Archives of Japan provides two digital archive projects; Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR) and National Archives of Japan Digital Archive (NAJDA). This presentation provides outline of these two projects focusing at their common technical specifications such as EAD/XML, Dublin Core, and Z39.50.

The development of the national level digital library projects in Taiwan began in 1998. The initiate project – Digital Museum Project (DMP, 1998~2001), sponsored by the National Science Council (NSC), included several topic-based projects and technical support projects. The outcomes of DMP was quite successful, however, the scale and budget (only $130 million NTD, ca. US$4 million) of DMP was not big enough to cover the whole picture of cultural heritage in Taiwan. For this reason, NSC proposed a five-year’s National Digital Archives Program (NDAP) in the year of 2002 as a sub-project of e-Taiwan.

In November, 2006, Kyoto Seika University establishes the Kyoto International Manga Museum where 200,000 items of Manga materials are exhibited. Its research department is to work on such projects as theoretical analysis of the changes in presentation styles of Manga, and sociological study of Manga. It is also to study how to expand the use of Manga to digital contents or educational materials in collaboration with industries, and to consider Manga in terms of intellectual property and how to protect its copyright. In addition, the Digital Archives (Manga Archives) made public on the Internet are going to be built. In preparation for information exchange with concerned institutions by metadata management of information, and with a view to development of the Mangapedia: Manga-Encyclopedia in the future, the system will be created based on the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), the ISO23950 (Z39.50) which is the international standard for cross search function, and the JPEG2000 which is the international standard for the digital image.

National Digital Library of China Project is the biggest digital library system in China. The article presents the background of NDLCP and describes the architecture of the system. The article also presents the big challenge in NDLCP and the solutions.