Development of CMDL and Digitization Activities
Tsinghau University Library
April 2, 2004
Agenda
•The Digital Production Center (DPC) and Digitization Activities
• Progress on the CMDL project
• Application of the Tianyuan Math Fund of NSFC
• About the Chinese Journal Network
1.The Digital Production Center (DPC) and Digitization Activities
The DPC of TH Library founded in March 2003
Equipments include:
five scanners :one Minolta PS-7000; three flat scanners; one high speed scanner
ten personal computers(Pentium III), four computer servers (Legend & HP )
Staff includes:
nine temporary workers, one flow-manager, one technical-supervisor
Digital workflow:
Workflow 1 -- One Million book Project
Workflow 2 -- CALIS Reserve Book Project
Workflow 3 -- Tsinghua Reserve Book Project
Workflow 4 -- CMDL project
Digitization Works: (from April, 2003 to March, 2004, about one year)
700 thousand pages of ancient books
50 thousand pages of reserve books
2. Progress on the CMDL project
CMDL project is a two-year (2002.11-2004.10) project funded by the Tsinghua University’s Basic Research Foundation and collaborated with the Math Dept. , the Computer Science and Technology Dept. and the Electronic Engineering Dept. .
CMDL is a multimedia resource for exhibiting the math ancient books, Chinese mathematician’s monographs，the modern math journals and some Cartoons about principles of ancient arithmetic, etc.
The CMDL’s new progress includes:
• drafting a set of metadata standards for math ancient books
description of metadata；
administrative metadata：techMD, rightMD, digiprovMD, sourceMD
• selecting METS as encoding and transmission standard
• developing the software of MathCat
gathering the metadata and generate METS objects
•Digitization works
70 thousand pages (about 100 title) of ancient math books
some cartoons about principles of ancient arithmetic
•Designing and developing the CMDL system Architecture
The CMDL system base on the Fedora system
Fedora has developed an open-source digital repository management system by Cornell University and University of Virginia.
Computer Dept. has developed a prototype system with extended Fedora functions.
The CMDL’s architecture has three layers: user interface; internal service; data storage
The CMDL in-progress prototype site:
The CMDL team will complete its work in October this year. Sowe applied for the Tianyuan Mathematics Fund of NSFC last month.
3. Application of the Tianyuan Maths Fund of NSFC
The Tianyuan Maths Fund is a special fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Tianyuan supports aspects :
• discovering and helping persons with ability of mathematics
• Mathematic subject development and exchange
• Build mathematic research environment
• Mathematic education and dissemination
The CMDL accords with last two terms.
TH Library associates with four units (the Math Dept. , the Computer Science and Technology Dept. and the Electronic Engineering Dept. ) and applied for the Tianyuan Mathematics Fund.
We hope the Tianyuan can support 300 thousand RMB every year, A four-year (2005-2008) project.
4. About the Chinese Journal Network
•the Chinese Journal Network has published about 6000 fulltext e-journals by Web
Including 53 math journals that are linked to EMANI
• distribution of the CJN institution users
China Mainland: over 2,100 institutions
Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macao: over 100 institutions
USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, Germany: over 50 institutions
• the CJN is developed by the Tongfang Company that is a Tsinghua University’s holding company
•most of backfile journals (before 1997) have been retrodigitized
the CJN has 6 Digital Production Centers
located in Beijing, (The Beijing Digital Production Center has over 400 staff )
Jiujiang of Jiangxi Province,
Changzhou of Jiangsu Province,
Chengdu of Sichun Province,
Zhuozhou of Heibei Province,
Xinzhou of Shanxi Province
•among 53 math journals, there are about 10 Journals published by English.
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