(19 May 2021) The digitization of Chinese classics is challenging, as Chinese ancient characters are complex. Throughout history, one Chinese character might have several variants and written forms. Digitizing Chinese ancient books through optical character recognition (OCR) not only facilitates machine reading but also gives a new life to numerous ancient books for public peruse. …
When they realised even Miles Franklin winners can be sent to the pulp pile, authors, librarians and academics began building a digital ark for bereft books (24 Jun 2021) Of the 62 books that won Australia’s Miles Franklin Award between 1957 and 2019, 23 are currently not available as ebooks, 40 are not available…
(3 May 2021) In 2013, through the generous support of William and Judith Bollinger, the British Library embarked upon a five-year project, in collaboration with the National Library Board of Singapore, to digitize materials in the British Library of interest to Singapore. The project initially focused on Malay manuscripts, early maps of Singapore, and archival…
(22 April 2021) The National Library of China (NLC), in collaboration with nine other libraries across the country, has made over 1,700 sets of ancient books available digitally, in a bid to preserve the books and make them more accessible to the public. The newly uploaded resources, including copies of ancient books in the…
(Apr 2021) From National Diet Library Newsletter: With the COVID-19 pandemic, remote library services are becoming more and more important. In this article, we would like to introduce the NDL’s online services and examples of their use: Digital Exhibitions of the National Diet Library The digital exhibitions introduce unique collections of the NDL with…
(7 Apr 2021) The French Embassy in Vietnam and the National Library of Vietnam on April 7 unveiled a digital library at https://heritage.bnf.fr/france-vietnam. (available in French and Vietnamese) It is considered a “Common Heritage” collection, consisting of more than 2,000 documents from the collections of the two national libraries and partners. The digital…
Japan’s National Diet Library has 4.45 million items in its digital quake database, including over a million photos; physical artefacts are in regional museums Curators are working to make the items easily available to the general public and to preserve remnants of the disaster before they are lost (10 Mar 2021) In Japan, efforts…
(26 Feb 2021) Three new collections are added into the EAP (Endangered Archives Programme) website in February. Manuscripts of the Lanten community in northern Laos Led by Professor Dr Josephus Platenkamp and Joseba Estevez, the EAP791 project team digitised 768 manuscripts owned by private collectors within the Lanten community in northern Laos. Written in…
(23 Feb 2021) Vietnamese government has approved library digitalization program to 2025 with the vision to 2030. This move is considered as a significant step to promote information technology application especially digital technology with the aim to ensure library continuity as Covid-19 puts brake to academic activity. The program goal is to complete…
(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…