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VEAL & the TIGER

VEAL & the TIGER. Comments on digital libraries. Introduction. What is a digital library? Emulating the card catalog… Faster and cheaper Evolving What does the future hold? Emulating the mind Friendlier and wiser Resource sharing. What is a digital library?.

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VEAL & the TIGER

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  1. VEAL & the TIGER Comments on digital libraries

  2. Introduction • What is a digital library? • Emulating the card catalog… • Faster and cheaper • Evolving • What does the future hold? • Emulating the mind • Friendlier and wiser • Resource sharing

  3. What is a digital library? • ARL Proceeding 126: Realizing Digital Libraries, 1995 http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/126/index.html • Gary Cleveland, Digital libraries: Definitions, issues and challenges, 1998 http://www.ifla.org/VI/5/op/udtop8/udtop8.htm#1 • Digital Library Technologies Trends, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2002. http://www.sun.com/edu/libraries • California Digital Library http://www.cdlib.org

  4. Commercial digital libraries • netLibrary • Ebrary • Questia • Superstar 超星数字图书馆 • 21media书生之家 • Eshunete书时空

  5. The traits • Emulating the card catalog; the stacks; the reference desk… the old library • Text dominance • Mono-lingual • Faster & cheaper

  6. An IBM diagram http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~fox/EDMEDIA96/DLIBM.pdf.

  7. The East Asian breakouts • Information providers: • CEAL site; e-Asia; UCB Stone Rubbings; CEAL directory; EAL websites; Eastlib; etc. • Services enablers: • RLIN CJK; OCLC CJK; PAIR; askEASL; OPACs; etc. • Virtual East Asian Libraries

  8. Libraries in transition 14.4M volumes of books & others media $11.3M of annual acquisitions budget 479 FTE of staff 53 locations ---CEAL statistics, 2002

  9. The digital differences • Fast • Compact • Translatable • Programmable • Distributed • Connected

  10. The new library • Digital & non-digital resources • Multi-media • Geographically spread out • Technologically integrated • Multi-sensors • Multi-languages • Programmable

  11. Technologically Integrated Group of Enabling Resources (TIGER) • TechnologicallyIntegrated for efficiency • Grouped for sharing & conservation • Enabling the creation & use of information • Resources are intellectual and physical properties

  12. Multi-sensors • Read • Write • Tactile • Speak • Listen • Think • Smell (sniff out the coffee before buying online!) • Taste?

  13. Multi-languages • Natural languages • Machine languages • Gestures, images and signs • Sounds • Tactile • Smell

  14. The sound of books • Silent reading • Reading in dialects

  15. Literacy • Read & write • Machine assisted literacy

  16. Programmable • Machine translation • Reading the future • Animates reality • Automated creation

  17. Translations • Natural languages • Machine languages • Gestures, images and signs • Sounds • Tactile • Smell

  18. Reading the future • Anticipation of events • Projection of trend lines • Deduction

  19. Creative environment • Natural creation • Machine creation

  20. Costs • Retro-con • The China remedy • Deep Blue • Yahoo

  21. What can a TIGER be? • Library emulator • Robotic intellectual • Artificial life • Sharing

  22. Conclusion • “Digital library” is not fully defined • Who are going to define it? • Quo vadis?

  23. Thank You!

  24. Thank You!

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