AsianDOC Electronic Newsletter 1:3 (October 1998)

Articles

Digital Library Projects in China

by Sally C. Tseng (University of California, Irvine)

Exploring the Digital Annapurna: On the Monitoring and Mapping of Asian Cyberspace

by Dr T. Matthew Ciolek, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University

Resources

• The Digitisation Forum Online (DFO)
  http://www.digitisation.net.au
  -- links and information about digitizing texts and other materials

• Foreign Language Font Archive
  submitted by A. Charles Muller

Opportunities

• DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVE - PHASE 2.
  Announcement Number NSF 98-63.
  This initiative supports Digital Libraries research, in amounts up to $200,000 per year for 1 to 3 years for individual investigators, or $1,200,000 per year for multi-disciplinary groups for 1 to 5 years. Topics: development, management, and accessibility of digital content or collections, serving new user communities, HCI, and creating digital library testbeds. See: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9863/nsf9863.htm
  DUE DATES: FY 1999 Competition: Letters of Intent: February 15, 1999; Full Proposals: May 17, 1999

• D-Lib Working Group on Digital Library Metrics seeks to develop appropriate metrics to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of digital libraries and component technologies. Initial emphasis will be on (a) information discovery with a human in the loop, and (b) retrieval in a heterogeneous world. See http://www.dlib.org/metrics/public/index.html.

• Museum Digital Licensing Collective (MDLC), formed to provide technical and financial assistance for digitizing museum collections http://www.museumlicensing.org

The dynamic search functionality has been removed. The indexed content can be found here.