(17 Dec 2020) The East Asia Digital Library (EADL), a portal site for cultural and scientific resources in East Asian languages, was launched on December 17, 2020. Configuration and operation of the EADL is being performed by the National Library of Korea (NLK) with the cooperation of the National Diet Library (NDL). The EADL…
(17 Dec 2020) The National Library of Mongolia, founded in 1921 as The Institute of Sutras and Scripts, is Mongolia’s oldest and largest library, and entrusted with the mandate to preserve Mongolian national written heritage. As Tibetan was a liturgical language of Mongolia, the Library’s largest holdings are its Tibetan Manuscript Collections. Coming from the…
(1 Dec 2020) The National Library of Australia has the world’s biggest oral history collection conducted at the height of the HIV and Aids epidemic in Australia. ABS has a full interview with Dr Shirleene Robinson (Senior curator of oral history at the National Library of Australia) about the collection and its historical background…
(October 2020) The British Library is nearing the end of a project to make 40,000 early maps and views freely available online for the first time. The material forms part of the Topographical Collection of King George III (K. Top) held by the British Library and captures four centuries of visual impressions of places…
(24 Jul 2020) By its onsite installation, “The Epitome of Aesthetics – New Media Art Exhibition”, National Palace Museum wins the gold award from AAM’s 2020 Media & Technology MUSE Awards at the category of Onsite Digital Experience. “The installation displays a wide range of technological applications that support collection presentation and provide context for…
(24 Jun 2020) From Korean Herald: Military documents produced during the 1950-53 Korean War have been designated as cultural assets and will be open to the public this week in line with the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict, the Army said Wednesday. The 7,521 documents — mainly of operational plans, orders and…
(27 Jun 2020) From the Canberran Times: Canberrans will now have access to a new and improved treasure trove of information as the National Library launched its new program on Friday. More than 3000 Australians contributed to a new and improved Trove system, which was unveiled after four years of work. The federal government announced a…
(24 Jun 2020) Cultural institutions, creative minds and tech enthusiasts have teamed up to provide integrated data on Indonesian cultures, but problems remain. The Education and Culture Ministry (of Indonesia) will set up a data portal that features a range of information in varied forms — text, photos and videos — collected by both the…
(6 Jun 2020) From India: A National Digital Library has been set up by the Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry for all students in the country. The library includes subjects such as elementary education, law, medicine and engineering. It provides more than 40.5 million text resources. Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said: “This library is…
(15 Jun 2020) The EDUCAUSE Digital Transformation (Dx) research project is our first attempt to gather data on how the Dx phenomenon is playing out in higher education. The goal of this project is to enrich the collective understanding of Dx in higher education and explore the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead on the…