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Cultural Heritage South East Asia Project: ASEANA Digital Library
Feasibility Study
Revised Web Version: 29 November 2013
Background
The Goethe-Institute proposes a joint initiative of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
member countries to secure, conserve, digitise and provide access to their cultural heritage in
form of text, images, sounds and video. The ten member countries (Brunei Darussalam,
Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet
Nam) each have their own rich cultural heritage. Their books, manuscripts, pictures, maps, music
and other documents are often endangered by climate, natural disasters, and neglect. Lack of
basic infrastructure and weak regional or international cooperation are further obstacles to access.
While information about these resources may be in many different national languages and dialects,
the existing collections may not searchable in the official language of ASEAN, which is English.
Almost all the member countries have started digitisation initiatives, but the projects are often of
limited scale, and not linked to each other. There are no uniform standards for metadata that
might promote interoperability. The digital data is stored and backed up to different levels of
security. The existing collections are managed by a mix of governments and non-governmental
organisations (NGOs), and funded from national budgets, international grants, and private
donations. Their sustainability is not guaranteed.
ASEAN's goal is 'one vision, one identity, one community'. The proposed ASEANA Digital Library
would strengthen the cultural identity of Southeast Asia as a region. It would promote cultural
diversity as one of its important assets. Access to all kinds of visual, textual, audio and video
holdings, including the documentation of intangible heritage like dance and customs, could
promote new levels of intra-regional understanding, mutual appreciation of the deep history of
these disparate neighbours as well as provide inspiration to arts and science. It would create
economic opportunities, especially for creative and technology industries that would be required to
support it. Boosting education and technical capacity and equipment may also encourage greater
international cooperation and interconnectivity.
While providing access to cultural heritage content is an important goal on its own, in the context
of a regional digital portal, it must be balanced with respect for rights and ownership. As stated in
the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)/University of British
Columbia (UBC) Vancouver Declaration:
“A better understanding of the digital environment is essential for the establishment of
digital preservation models that respect fundamental legal principles enshrined in
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institutional regulatory frameworks, and balance access with privacy, right to knowledge
with economic rights, and respect
ownership and control of indigenous cultural heritage and traditional knowledge in digital
format.”
This initiative will be similar to Europeana. ASEANA will create a digital library that functions as a
portal – providing a gateway to cultural heritage materials that reside on the websites of their host
institutions. The ASEANA website will facilitate discovery and access through the use of metadata
and thumbnail images on a single website but detailed information and the digitised objects
themselves will remain with the host institutions themselves.
The initiative will be launched by Goethe-Institut in conjunction with other partners in Southeast
Asia and Europe. The first step would be to set up a framework for its vision, mission and policy.
Roadmaps at the regional and national level would then ensure ASEAN can create the political and
organizational framework required to sustain this effort, playing the same role that the European
Union/European Commission (EU/EC) did for Europeana. This cooperation between Southeast
Asian and European institutions would acknowledge the long history of trade, colonization and
migration between these two regions. This left behind a legacy of many historical valuable texts,
images and objects from Southeast Asia as part of the collections of European museums, libraries
and archives. The digitisation policy and process should draw on the experiences of Europeana, the
Digital Library of America and other similar digital portals. It will follow the IFLA/UNESCO
Manifesto for Digital Libraries. The spirit of the Vancouver Declaration should be invoked to
encourage national governments, intergovernmental organizations and sponsors to recognize the
strategic importance of digital libraries and to actively support their development.
Potential partners:
• Professional level: IFLA, CONSAL, national and other libraries, museums, archives, NGOs
and private foundations
• Supporters and donors: ASEAN, EU / European Commission, UNESCO, Asian Development
Bank (ADB) and other development agencies.
The Goethe-Institute Jakarta, which coordinates the Goethe-Institutes in all ASEAN countries (plus
Australia and New Zealand), has undertaken some preliminary research to assess the existing
digitisation projects in the region and the opportunities for cooperation. This research identified a
variety of preservation and digitisation projects, some of them supported professionally and
financially by organizations from Europe, or the United States (U.S.) as well as their national
institutions.
The Goethe-Institutes Southeast Asia / Australia / New Zealand agreed to adopt the idea of an
'ASEANA Initiative', and to conduct a feasibility study, including:
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• preliminary research of existing projects, their scope and results;
• communication with experts, stakeholders and decision-makers from Southeast Asia, Europe
and international bodies such as IFLA and UNESCO. The methodology included a review of
existing studies, written surveys, and consultation with experts and conference participants;
and,
• communication with potential partners, supporters and donors about their ideas and possible
involvement
If the results are positive, a political decision by ASEAN and EU officials should be sought. Once
the decision is endorsed, a roadmap including funding and proposals for institutional cooperation
will follow.
Methodology of the Feasibility Study
The feasibility study aimed to identify existing cultural heritage digitisation projects in all ASEAN
countries as well as review a selection of reference projects in Europe, USA, Japan, Australia and
New Zealand.
It was conducted during June and July 2013 by consultant Tanya R. Torres, who was assisted by
Goethe-Institut staff who identified digital cultural heritage collections that were available online
from each of the 10 ASEAN member countries. Potential collections were found primarily through
national museum, library, and archive websites. Other collections were identified through online
research into UNESCO initiatives such as “Memory of the World” and cultural heritage preservation
programs conducted by NGOs, private foundations and regional/provincial museums and libraries.
For the purpose of this feasibility study, the focus was on digitised collections that were available
(either wholly or in part) in the ASEAN countries.1
Cultural heritage materials were defined broadly to include digitised versions of tangible objects
such as written materials (manuscripts and books), works of art, architecture, anthropological
artifacts (ceramics, tools, textiles, etc.) as well as intangible objects such as music, dance and
drama performances.
An initial list of approximately 70 potential digital collections and projects from ASEAN countries
was compiled. The collections and projects on the initial list were then scrutinized to ascertain their
readiness to be part of a beta version of a cultural heritage portal.
1 Numerous collections of Southeast Asian cultural heritage materials are available in non-ASEAN countries – examples include the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme (http://eap.bl.uk/) and the South East Asian Digital Library (SEADL) hosted by Northern Illinois University in the U.S. (http://sea.lib.niu.edu/).
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Given the limitations of the beta phase of the project, the feasibility study focused on digital
projects or collections that were already online with metadata (as opposed projects that may be in
the early stages of digitisation). The final selection was limited to digital projects/collections that
had descriptions available in English, which is the official language of ASEAN. Eventually ASEANA
should be a multi-lingual portal but the initial beta version would concentrate on identifying those
existing collections that are ready to be aggregated. Given that preservation continues to be an
issue in the region, a future iteration of ASEANA may also provide a server/institutional home
within the country or region for collections that lack the either the technical, financial or
administrative ability to provide online access and preserve their collections in a secure
environment over the longer-term.
Based on the criteria outlined above, approximately 30 digital collections/projects were selected to
be included in the initial feasibility study and 1-2 pages profiles were developed for each collection
or project (see Annex D).
Outputs of the Feasibility Study
The final outputs of the feasibility study included the following:
• A list of people and organizations that were contacted to identify potential cultural heritage
digital collections in the ASEAN region (Annex A)
• A profile/questionnaire that facilitated research on each digital collection or project, which
included a description of the project, the type of content, scale (size of the project), scope
(for which purpose) and metadata used, a link to its public website and a contact person or
institution (Annex B)
• A list of cultural heritage digital projects included in the research (Annex C)
• A final profile for each cultural heritage project in that included: a description of the
project, the type of content, scale (size of the project), scope (for which purpose) and
metadata used, a link to its public website and a contact person or institution (Annex D)
The Goethe-Institut will share the results of the feasibility study for its project ‘Cultural Heritage
Southeast Asia’, and work with ASEAN members, IFLA, CONSAL the National Library of Singapore,
the German National Library/German Digital Library, DigitalNZ and other interested parties to help
develop an ASEANA Digital Library. The results of the feasibility study may be made available to
the public, particularly on the Goethe-Institut’s website and websites of project partners.
Select Findings and Recommendations
Digitization and metadata standards in among the different collections varied widely, indicating a
need for adopting a regional or perhaps even global set of standards for cultural heritage
materials. The study also compared cultural heritage collections and digital portals such as
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Europeana, the Digital Public Library of America and the German National Digital Library to
determine how digitization and metadata standards are being used by other collections around the
world. There appears to be a trend toward using a common set of standards for digitization and
metadata across many of the larger collections. This enables discovery and access of local content
across regional collections as well as creates the possibility of a truly global portal of cultural
heritage materials. According to the IFLA/UNESCO Manifesto for Digital Libraries:
“A collaborative digital library allows public and research libraries to form a network of
digital information in response to the needs of the Information Society. The systems of all
partners in a collaborative digital library must be able to interoperate.”
One possible next step for ASEANA may be to work with the ASEAN member countries to develop
regional standards based on the newly developed International Federation of Library Associations
and Institutions (IFLA) Rare Books and Manuscripts Digitization Guidelines. The guidelines are
suggestive and provide a series of questions that libraries can use to develop a comprehensive
digitization and preservation program for rare books and manuscripts, and may be applicable to
other materials as well. These guidelines may provide an opportunity for the national libraries
from the ASEAN member countries to work together in adopting standards and as well as future
steps, such as developing centers of competency in each country. As suggested in the
UNESCO/UBC Vancouver Declaration, “education and training programmes for information
professional must be developed and provided to prepare or reposition them to implement both
digitization and preservation practices relevant to the needs of governments and their citizens…”.
The diverse local content collections in the ASEAN region reflect the rich cultural heritage traditions
in the member countries. By working together toward the goals of preservation and digitization,
the ASEAN member countries can provide access to these cultural heritage collections for
generations to come.
The larger vision for this initiative includes working with ASEAN members to develop a framework
for the ASEANA Digital Library, which would include:
• Identifying and developing an institutional home for a regional and national centers of
competence which would be supported by network of digitisation project partners, specialists
from Southeast Asia, Europe, Oceania and the US, supporters and donors; and,
• Identifying and adapting best practices and policies for the digitisation of cultural heritage
materials in the region.
For additional information, please contact:
Christel Mahnke, Head of Information & Library
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Christel.mahnke at jakarta.goethe.org
Tanya R. Torres, Consultant
trtor at fastmail.fm
Goethe-Institut Indonesia
Jl. Sam Ratulangi 9-15, Menteng
Jakarta 10350
Tel. +62-21-23550208 - 105
Fax. +62-21-23550021
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Annex A – List of people and organizations that were contacted to identify potential
cultural heritage digital collections in the ASEAN region
Christel Mahnke
Head of Information & Library
Goethe-Institut Indonesia
Alicia Paraiso
Head, Information and Library
Goethe-Institut Manila
Sirirat Tinarat
Head of Information and Library
Goethe-Institut Thailand
Viet Phuong Tran
Head of Information and Library
Goethe-Institut Vietnam
Roger Tol
Director
Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV) / Royal Netherlands Institute of
Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies/Jakarta
Will Tuchrello
Field Director
Library of Congress (LOC) Jakarta
Ky-Anh Nguyen
Assistant Director Culture & Information Division
ASEAN-Secretariat
Arief Maulana
Culture & Information Division
ASEAN-Secretariat
Myat Sann Nyein
Director of Baldwin Library
Yangon, Myanmar
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Aditya Nugraha, MS (Liauw Toong Tjiek) –
Head of the Library - Perpustakaan Universitas Kristen Petra
Surabaya, Indonesia
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Annex B – Sample Project or Collection Questionnaire
1. What is the title of the project or collection?
2. Is the project or collection available online? If so, what is the URL?
3. What is the scale of the project or collection?
4. Please describe the project or collection, including the scope.
5. What type of content is available through the project or collection?
6. What is the copyright status of the project or collection? Are there any rights associated with
the content?
7. What kind of metadata does the project or collection have? What languages are used for the
metadata titles and/or content?
8. Who should we contact for additional information about the project or collection?
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Annex C - List of the Digital Project/Collection Profiles
No. Country/Region Title Page
1 Regional - Europe Europeana D-1
2 Germany Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB)/ German Digital Library D-3
3 Netherlands
Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
(KITLV) / Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and
Caribbean Studies Digital Media Library
D-5
4 Japan National Diet Library Digital Contents D-7
5 United States Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) D-9
6 Australia National Library of Australia Digital Collections D-11
7 Australia Trove D-13
8 New Zealand DigitalNZ D-15
9 Cambodia National Museum of Cambodia: Image collection of Angkor
complex and neighbouring temple groups D-13
10 Indonesia National Library of Indonesia - Digital Collections - Images D-19
11 Indonesia National Library of Indonesia - Digital Collections - Johannes
Rach's Paintings D-20
12 Indonesia National Library of Indonesia - Digital Collections -
Manuscripts D-21
13 Indonesia Petra Christian University Surabaya - Surabaya Memory D-22
14 Indonesia PACE Papua Heritage Foundation D-24
15 Indonesia Lontar Foundation – Lontar Digital Library D-26
16 Lao PDR Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts D-29
17 Malaysia State Library: Pustaka Negeri Sarawak D-31
18 Malaysia The Sabah Museum/Jabatan Muzium Sabah D-34
19 Philippines Filipinas Heritage Library D-35
20 Philippines Retrato – Photo Archive of the Filipinas Heritage Library D-37
21 Philippines The University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology D-40
22 Singapore Singapore Collections Online (SGCool) D-42
23 Singapore Singapore Memory D-45
24 Singapore NAS National Archives – Access to Archives Online (A2O) D-48
25 Thailand Chiang Mai University Library (CMUL)
Digital Heritage Collection D-50
26 Thailand CMUL Lanna (Northern Thai) Collections D-51
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27 Thailand Digital Archive of Research on Thailand (DART) D-54
28 Thailand Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre D-56
29 Viet Nam National Library of Viet Nam - Indochina Book Collection D-59
30 Viet Nam Han Nom Special Collection Digitization Project D-61
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Annex D - Digital Project/Collection Profiles
Country: Regional – Europe
Title: Europeana
URL: http://www.europeana.eu/
Scale: Regional
Description
& Scope:
From Europeana - About Us:
Europeana is the trusted source of cultural heritage provided by the Europeana
Foundation and a large number of European cultural institutions, projects and
partners, including 130+ of the leading galleries, libraries, archives and
museums. Over 24 million objects are available including books and
manuscripts, photos and paintings, television and film, sculpture and crafts,
diaries and maps, sheet music and recordings.
Type of
Content:
From Europeana - About Us:
Digital portal (aggregation from other collections) - includes:
• Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
• Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
• Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio
broadcasts
• Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts
Rights: From the Europeana Data Exchange Agreement:
With regard to licensing of the resources provided by data providers to
Europeana, the Data Exchange Agreement (DEA) sets out two simple principles:
1. For all descriptive metadata provided to Europeana, data providers
grant Europeana the right to publish the metadata under the terms of the
Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. This means that
all metadata provided to Europeana can be re-used by third parties without any
restrictions.
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2. Each digital object (and the associated preview) that is available via
Europeana needs to carry a rights label that describes its copyright status. Data
providers grant Europeana the right to publish previews provided to Europeana.
Previews may not be re-used by third parties unless the rights label related to
the object allows such re-use.
Metadata: From Europeana Professional - EDM documentation:
Uses Europeana Data Model (EDM) for Cultural Heritage attempts to
accommodate a wide range of international standards such as DC, LIDO for
museums, Encoded Archival Description (EAD) for archives and METS for digital
libraries. The EDM framework also collects, connects and enriches metadata by
adhering to Semantic Web modelling principles that link to other cultural
heritage collections. Provides a wide range of metadata-related instructional
materials such as EDM primers, mapping guidelines and object templates. The
EDM features 10 mandatory properties and 12 optional properties for each
object.
Contact
Information:
Europeana Office
+31703140991
Info at europeana.eu
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Country: Germany
Title: Deutsche Digitale
Bibliothek (DDB)/
German Digital Library
URL: http://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/
Scale: National
Description
& Scope:
From About us and Institutions - Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) is a national portal which aims to bring
together and network digital content from all (+1990) of Germany’s cultural and
scientific institutions by providing access to millions of books, archived items,
images, sculptures, pieces of music and other sound documents, as well as films
and scores, from all over Germany. As part of Europeana, the DDB functions as a
national portal for digitalised artistic and cultural assets and integrates them into
the European cultural memory.
Type of
Content:
From Contents of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek:
Include digital representations and derivatives of books, documents, paintings,
statues, installations and monuments, as well as films and music. Users can
browse the finding aids of archives or access information from the field of
cultural heritage preservation. They can read, view or listen to the objects,
arrange them into virtual displays and use them in virtual research
environments.
Rights: From the DDB Terms of Use:
1. The DDB and its data suppliers retain all copyright and other industrial
property rights to the public, freely accessible (and free of charge) digital
content, derivatives and metadata including layout, software and their content in
line with the principle of „free access – rights reserved“.
2. Any use of the digital content, derivatives and metadata for commercial
purposes is hereby prohibited, unless approved by the title holder in individual
cases. As a rule, the DDB is not the title holder itself, but only acts as an agency
providing access to the digital content, derivatives and metadata, so that any
further rights of utilisation must be acquired from the respective institute that
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has contributed said content.
3. Where the individual digital content, derivatives and metadata give specific
legal instructions concerning the use of the content in question, these shall apply
in addition to these General Terms and Conditions of Use.
4. It is forbidden to alter and/or remove information concerning copyright
and/or brand names and/or any other information provided as part of the
content.
5. Special conditions apply for individual areas of this website. When
registering in these areas, the users are explicitly asked to read the conditions
applicable for these. More specific conditions of this type shall have priority over
these conditions when using said services.
Metadata: From Frequently Asked Questions - Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek
The internal metadata format of the DDB is based on the Conceptual Reference
Model (CRM) of CIDOC. CIDOC-CRM is a model that provides definitions and a
formal structure for describing cultural works. The formal structure of the model
consists of classes (entities) and relations (properties) between the classes. The
DDB data model also uses entities from FRBRoo, a formal ontology that
harmonises the functional requirements for bibliographic records (FRBR) with
CIDOC-CRM. In this way, bibliographic information is integrated and brought
together with museum resources.
Admissible input formats are Dublin Core, MODS/METS, MARC21, EAD(-DDB)
and LIDO. Data should be delivered in XML format, as they will be converted
using XSLT-based transformers to the internal format of the DDB. If the formats
mentioned above cannot be supplied, the DDB competence network provides
help with converting the existing format in each case to one of the required
standard formats.
Contact
Information:
For general questions about the DDB please contact the competence network at:
fragen at deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de.
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Country: Netherlands
Title: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en
Volkenkunde (KITLV) / Royal Netherlands
Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean
Studies Digital Media Library
URL: http://media-kitlv.nl/
Scale: From KITLV — Digital Resources:
Multi-country/special emphasis on collecting information and advancing research
on the present and former Dutch colonies.
Description
& Scope:
From KITLV — Library and Digital Resources:
KITLV maintains a digital library with collections of more than 150,000 photos,
prints, drawings, maps and songs particularly from Indonesia, the Dutch Indies,
Suriname and the Caribbean. Additionally there are images of migrants from
these areas who resided temporarily or resettled in the Netherlands. As of 2010,
KITLV had contributed more than a third of the items pertaining to Southeast
Asia to the World Digital Library, which makes significant primary materials from
countries and cultures around the world available on the Internet, free of charge
and in multilingual format.
Type of
Content:
Photos, prints, drawings, maps and music.
Rights: From KITLV copyright notice:
Music - Copyrights of audio samples that do not fall in the public domain are
dealt with by the Dutch organization for music licensing and authorship
BUMA/STEMRA. KITLV pays an annual fee to BUMA/STEMRA to be able to
maintain this website. BUMA/STEMRA is the official organization to secure
remuneration of royalties to composers or performers.
Photographic materials - A photograph or other paper document may only be
published after permission has been given by the Department of Special
Collections of the KITLV and after the copyright payment has been made.
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CONDITIONS OF PERMISSION FOR THE REPRODUCTION OF PHOTOS,
MAPS, PRINTS, ETC., FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF KITLV/Royal
Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
A photograph or other paper document may only be published after permission
has been given by the Department of Special Collections of the KITLV and after
the copyright payment has been made.
The KITLV hereby grants permission for use of the specified image in one
publication only. The use of the material for further printing, publication, sale,
lending, broadcasting or any other public purpose, whether by the same person
or by others, without prior permission from the KITLV, is prohibited.
Each time the specified image is used full mention must be made of the source,
viz.:
- ‘Collection of the KITLV, Leiden, The Netherlands.’
The client is requested to send a complementary copy of the publication
concerned by way of proof to the KITLV (The department of Special Collections)
upon publication.
After having used the images the client is requested to return them to the KITLV
(The department of Special Collections). When the images were supplied on CD-
ROM the client is obliged to send them back at all times.
Metadata: Good metadata, ranging from 8-12 properties. Unclear what metadata schema
was used. Appears to have received assistance from Picturae for image and
audio collection digitization.
Contact
Information:
archives at kitlv.nl
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Country: Japan
Title: National Diet Library Digital
Contents
URL: http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/service/online_service.html#digital
Scale: National
Description
& Scope:
The NDL Digitized Contents includes the following collections:
• Digital images of books, periodicals, rare books and old materials
(manuscripts, prints, and maps created before 1868), and official gazettes
held by the NDL. Approx +92,000 objects.
• Historical sound recordings digitized by the Historical Records Archive
Promotion Conference.They were originally recorded on 78rpm records and
other obsolete audio media produced in Japan between 1900-1950.
• As well as special collections such as the Digital Library from the Meiji Era
Type of
Content:
Images of books, manuscripts, maps, and audio.
Rights: From Concerning Copyright from National Diet Library:
Unless otherwise specifically noted, the National Diet Library holds the copyright
of its websites and all contents.
From Copyrights of the Materials from the Digital Library from the Meiji Era:
The NDL digitizes its collection for preservation purposes as stipulated in Article
31(2) of the Copyright Law (Japanese only). Digitized materials are first made
available within the facilities of the NDL. Then after copyright clearance, they
became available on the Internet at the Digital Library from the Meiji Era. There
are three cases where the NDL is able to provide materials on the Internet:
(1)the material belongs to the public domain, (2)the NDL obtains the permission
from the copyright holder, and (3) the NDL gets licensed by the Commissioner
for the Cultural Affairs based on the Article 67 of the Copyright Law. The NDL is
working on the copyright clearance of the books published in the early Show
period (1925-1945).
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Metadata: Extensive metadata appears to be available in Japanese for all digital collections.
Only the Digital Library from the Meiji Era and limited number of other objects
have metadata available in English.
Contact
Information:
Inquiries and comments about technical aspects of the NDL Digitized Contents
and the Digital Library from the Meiji Era can be sent to the following address:
Digital Library Division, the Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library
8-1-3 Seikadai. Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0287 JAPAN
E-mail： dl at ndi.go.jp
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Country: United States of America
Title: Digital Public
Library of America
(DPLA)
URL: http://dp.la/
Scale: National
Description
& Scope:
From About the DPLA:
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) brings together the riches of
America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to
the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the
written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the
efforts and data of science. The DPLA works with hundreds of libraries, archives,
museums, and knowledge institutions across the United States and abroad
through hubs partnerships and other collaborations, to increase access to shared
cultural heritage.
Type of
Content:
From About the DPLA:
The DPLA offers a single point of access to millions (+2.5M) of items—
photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more—from
libraries, archives, and museums around the United States.
Rights: From DPLA Terms of Service:
5. License to Content Delivered through the Services
5.1. Content Generally
Except for the Metadata, any images, video and audio delivered through the
Exhibitions (the “Visual Assets”), as well as DPLA’s trademarks, logos, trade
dress, look and feel, and other identifying characteristics of the Services
(collectively, the “DPLA Marks”), all content delivered through the Services is
made available and licensed by the DPLA under the CC BY 3.0 License.
5.2. Metadata
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All Metadata has been dedicated to the public pursuant to Creative Commons’
CC0 public domain dedication, and is available for download through DPLA’s
Metadata API. Please read DPLA’s Metadata Policy for more information
regarding the Metadata.
5.3. Visual Assets
The Visual Assets displayed as part of any Exhibitions are subject to the rights
granted within the metadata associated with each Visual Asset, if any. If you
would like more information how to license these Visual Assets, please contact
the relevant rights-holder. Please refrain from scraping or copying any of the
Visual Assets from the Services. If you do, you do so at your own risk, and are
fully liable for any damages that may arise out of this behavior.
Metadata: From Digital Public Library of America FAQ:
The DPLA API is built following the DPLA Metadata Application Profile (MAP), our
internal metadata schema. The DPLA MAP is designed to build on the experience
of the Europeana Data Model (EDM) and to crosswalk with commonly used
metadata standards, including Dublin Core (qualified and unqualified), MODS,
and others. It references Dublin Core, ORE, and a variety of controlled
vocabularies and thesauri. A preliminary release of the RDF schema is also
available. The MAP will continue to evolve to implement more linked-data
friendly methodologies to better share, expose, and connect DPLA’s content with
users across the web.
Contact
Information:
Digital Public Library of America team:
info at dp.la
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Country: Australia
Title: National Library of Australia
Digital Collections
URL: http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/
Scale: National
Description
& Scope:
From Digital Collections of the National Library of Australia (NLA):
The National Library of Australia digitises selected items in its collections to
provide users with easy online access to some of Australia’s most significant
cultural materials. Explore the Australian story through captivating pictures, rare
historical maps, early Australian printed music, manuscripts belonging to famous
Australians, selected printed works from our Australian and overseas collections,
and selected audio recordings of our oral history and folklore items.
Type of
Content:
From NLA’s Digitisation of Library Collections:
As of 30 June 2012, a total of 189,013 collection items (consisting of 624,910
images) have been digitised. This includes pictorial material, maps, printed
music, manuscripts, and selected books and serials.
Rights: From NLA Copyright for this website:
© National Library of Australia
Content published on this web site is copyright. You may download, display, print
and reproduce this content for your personal or non-commercial use but only in
an unaltered form and with the copyright acknowledged.
Agencies wishing to make Library content accessible through their web site are
encouraged to link to the required content on this site.
This site contains links to a wide range of resources which do not belong to the
National Library of Australia. While the Library aims to provide links which will be
useful to users of the site, it cannot endorse these sites or guarantee the content
of linked resources.
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Copyright and our collections
Various copying and publishing conditions apply to content in the Library's
collections, depending on material type, age and whether a donor rights
agreement is in place. For more information see our Copyright in Library items
page.
Metadata: From NLA’s Standards:
Uses a variety of metadata standards for different types of contents, including
Australian METS profiles, MARC21 for books, and their own metadata schema for
images. Metadata is available for harvesting using the Open Archives Initiative
(OAI) protocol for metadata harvesting.
Contact
Information:
Digitisation and Photography Branch
National Library of Australia
Canberra ACT 2600
Ph: +61 (02) 6262 1557
Email: digitisation at nla.gov.au
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Country: Australia
Title: Trove
URL: http://trove.nla.gov.au/
Scale: National
Description
& Scope:
From Marketing Trove - National Library Of Australia:
Trove is a free, online, national content delivery and discovery service (search
engine) built and managed by the National Library of Australia. The National
Library gathers information and combines under one search portal. Trove
harnesses digital technology to take its users straight to the source of millions of
resources from almost 2000 libraries and other cultural institutions around
Australia as well as international digital collections of relevance. Utilizes social
media and user contributions to augment metadata and collections.
Type of
Content:
From Home - Trove:
Digital portal which provides access to over 358,226,502 Australian and online
resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.
Rights: From Full Terms and conditions of use for the NLA’s Trove service:
Creative Commons Share and Share Alike licence.
Trove users are required to grant to NLA a non-exclusive licence to
distribute, copy and preserve your content under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.1 Australia Licence.
Copyright.
Users must not upload or transmit to Trove any copyright material of
which you are not the owner, unless you have the express written
permission of the copyright owner to do so. Copyright in images of book
covers included in Trove is reserved by the original copyright holders.
Non-Commercial Use only.
Trove is provided solely for personal use. As a participant, you must not
include in your Posting(s) or otherwise distribute on or through Trove
any content or material containing any advertising, promotion,
solicitation for goods, services or funds or solicitation for anyone to
become members of any commercial enterprise or organisation without
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the express written permission of the NLA. Any unauthorised use of any
interactive area of Trove, its Content or Postings is expressly prohibited.
Metadata: From Technical specifications for contributing - Trove:
Trove works with two metadata schemas:- Unqualified Dublin Core and the
Picture Australia Metadata Schema. Trove uses a number of transfer protocols to
harvest records from contributors’ systems. These include the Open Archives
Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), Harvest Control Lists,
RSS feeds, Sitemaps and custom APIs.
Contact
Information:
National Library of Australia
Parkes Place CANBERRA ACT 2600, Australia
web: http://trove.nla.gov.au/
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Country: New Zealand
Title: DigitalNZ
URL: http://digitalnz.org/
Scale: National
Description
& Scope:
From About - DigitalNZ:
DigitalNZ is an initiative with more than 120 partners, led by the National Library
of New Zealand. Search across more than 25 million digital items to discover
New Zealand treasures such as amazing aerial photos, old posters and
memorabilia, newspaper clippings, artworks, and publications. Items are
contributed from partners including Te Papa, the Alexander Turnbull Library,
Auckland Art Gallery, Te Ara, NZ On Screen and many many more.
Type of
Content:
From About - DigitalNZ:
Digital portal (aggregation from other collections), and also host of text, images,
audio, video, data, web-pages, multi-media and sets.
Rights: From Copyright - DigitalNZ:
Unless stated otherwise:
1. the material on this website is subject to copyright protection;
2. all items are protected by third-party copyright or other usage
restrictions;
3. website content in the about, blog, developer, and partner sections of
this website is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New
Zealand licence. This licence does not apply to design elements or
images on the site
The copyright of much of the Content on this website is owned by third parties.
If you want to copy (including download), adapt, publish or otherwise distribute
any of this Content, you are responsible for determining and clearing copyright,
obtaining permissions and meeting any other requirements. Please see the
information about reusing items found on DigitalNZ for assistance.
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Metadata: From DigitalNZ Metadata Dictionary:
Loosely based on Dublin Core with additional custom fields. For additional
details, please refer to DigitalNZ Metadata Dictionary.
Contact
Information:
Contributing search content: Fiona Fieldsend
info at digitalnz.org
Phone +64 4 474 3015
Technical support: Chris McDowall
develop at digitalnz.org
DigitalNZ Developers Google Group
Phone +64 4 470 4536
Digital project advice: Lewis Brown
advice at digitalnz.org
Phone +64 4 474 3159
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Country: Cambodia
Title: National Museum of
Cambodia: Image collection
of Angkor complex and
neighbouring temple
groups
URL: http://www.cambodiamuseum.info/en_khmer_art_history/angkor_complex.html
Scale: From Angkor complex and neighbouring temple groups:
Collection of +60 descriptions temple images with metadata in English and
Khmer in HTML on the National Museum of Cambodia website.
Description
& Scope:
Unknown.
Type of
Content:
Images
Rights: From Angkor complex and neighbouring temple groups:
©2013 National Museum of Cambodia. Website is sponsored by the Bickford
Family Trust and Friends of Khmer Culture, Inc (FOKCI).
Metadata: Basic descriptive terms in HTML.
Contact
Information:
H.E. Him Chhem
Minister
Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts
227 Kbal Thnal, Preah Norodom Boulevard
Sangkat Tonle Bassac, Khan Chamkar Mon
Phnom Penh 12305
Kingdom of Cambodia
Tel: +855 (0)23 217 643, +855 (0)23 217 645, +855 (0)23 217 647-8
Fax: +855 (0)23 218 146
Mr. Kong Vireak, Director
Ms. Sam Thida, Deputy Director
Mr. Chhuon Sareth, Deputy Director
Mr. Kep Sovann, Deputy Director
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Ms. Seng Bopha, Deputy Director
Ms. Suon Pholine, Deputy Director
Ms. Oun SokunTheavy, Deputy Director
National Museum of Cambodia
Street 13
Sangkat Chey Chumneas, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh
Kingdom of Cambodia
Email: museum_cam at camnet.com.kh
Tel/fax: +855 0(23) 211 753
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Country: Indonesia
Title: National Library of
Indonesia - Digital
Collections - Images
URL: http://www.pnri.go.id/en/KoleksiFoto.aspx
Scale: From Digital Collections - Image / Photo Collection:
Digital collection of +800 photos with good metadata in Indonesian and Dutch.
Description
& Scope:
See above.
Type of
Content:
Images of photos, primarily black and white.
Rights: From homepage of National Library of Indonesia website:
copyright © 2011 Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia
Metadata: From Digital Collections - Image / Photo Collection:
Basic metadata available in Indonesian or Dutch (title, author, physical
description, general notes and subject).
Contact
Information:
Mr. Joko Santoso
Head of Library Cooperation and Automation Division
Center For Library and Information Services
The National Library of Indonesia
Jl. Salemba Raya No. 28A - Jakarta 10430
Indonesia
Tel/fax: 6221-3103554
URL: http://www.pnri.go.id
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Country: Indonesia
Title: National Library of
Indonesia - Digital
Collections -
Johannes Rach's Paintings
URL: http://www.pnri.go.id/en/KoleksiJRach.aspx
Scale: From Digital Collections - Johannes Rach Paintings:
Digital collection of 167 images works by Johannes Rach, a Danish painter and
draughtsman who created numerous paintings and drawings of architecture and
culture during his time in Indonesia (1762-1783). 1
Description
& Scope:
See above.
Type of
Content:
Images of drawings or paintings.
Rights: From homepage of National Library of Indonesia website:
copyright © 2011 Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia
Metadata: From Digital Collections - Johannes Rach Paintings:
Basic metadata available in Indonesian or Dutch (title, physical media, general
notes, annotation, subjects and call number). Titles are available in Indonesian
and English.
Contact
Information:
Mr. Joko Santoso
Head of Library Cooperation and Automation Division
Center For Library and Information Services
The National Library of Indonesia
Jl. Salemba Raya No. 28A - Jakarta 10430
Indonesia
Tel/fax: 6221-3103554
URL: http://www.pnri.go.id
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Country: Indonesia
Title: National Library of
Indonesia - Digital
Collections -
Manuscripts
URL: http://www.pnri.go.id/en/KoleksiManuskrip.aspx
Scale: From Digital Collections - Manuscripts:
Digital collection of 345 manuscripts as PDF files with good metadata in English.
Description
& Scope:
See above.
Type of
Content:
Manuscripts in different languages from different parts of Indonesia, available in
PDF format.
Rights: From homepage of National Library of Indonesia website:
copyright © 2011 Perpustakaan Nasional Republik Indonesia
Metadata: From Digital Collections - Manuscripts:
Basic metadata available in Indonesian or Dutch (title, physical description,
general notes, annotation, language, subjects and call number).
Contact
Information:
Mr. Joko Santoso
Head of Library Cooperation and Automation Division
Center For Library and Information Services
The National Library of Indonesia
Jl. Salemba Raya No. 28A - Jakarta 10430
Indonesia
Tel/fax: 6221-3103554
URL: http://www.pnri.go.id
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Country: Indonesia
Title: Petra Christian University
Surabaya - Surabaya Memory
URL: http://www3.petra.ac.id/surabaya-memory/
Scale: From Surabaya Memory - Petra Christian University:
Several collections of images and documents pertaining to the cultural heritage
of Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia’s second largest city:
1) Daily Life of People (59 images);
2) Old/Ethnic Quarters/Villages -(4 documents);
3) Historical Event(s)- (4 documents);
4) Important/Influential Figures/Character(s) - (2 documents);
5) Rivers - (11 documents);
6) Documentation of Settlements in Indonesia - (9 documents);
7) City Planning - (30 documents);
8) Old Street - (34 documents);
9) Historical Buildings/Sites/Monuments - (149 documents).
Description
& Scope:
From the Goals of Surabaya Memory:
1. To document the various stages of development of the city of Surabaya,
including its historical and/or cultural heritage and its people's daily life
from different era;
2. To provide a virtual gathering space where people of the same concerns
and interests can exchange ideas, knowledge, and expertise for the
preservation of historical and/or cultural heritage of the city of Surabaya;
3. As a showcase to introduce the concept of digital library and digital
collections, and their roles in encouraging society's awareness for the
preservation of Surabaya city's historical and/or cultural heritage.
For more information on the background of Surabaya Memory Project, please go
to the History section.
Type of
Content:
From Surabaya Memory - Petra Christian University - Documentation of
Settlements in Indonesia - Pokok-pokok pemukiman:
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Images and descriptions in Indonesian are available as PDFs online.
Rights: From one of the Surabaya Memory pages:
The resource(s) is/are maintained by Petra Christian University. Reproduction &
distribution for non-commercial purposes is permitted provided that the credit
for the Author(s) and the maintainer are explicitly stated, and no alterations are
made.
Metadata: From one of the Surabaya Memory pages:
Good metadata available in Indonesian and English (title, author, year, subject,
keyword, category, language and rights). Descriptions are available in
Indonesian.
Contact
Information:
Mr. Aditya Nugraha, MS (Liauw Toong Tjiek) –
anugraha at petra.ac.id
Head of the Library - Perpustakaan Universitas Kristen Petra
Surabaya, Indonesia
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Country: Indonesia
Title: PACE Papua Heritage Foundation
URL: http://www.papuaerfgoed.org/en
Scale: From Artefacts - PACE (Papua Heritage Foundation) and Multimedia - PACE:
Over the past seven years, PACE (Papua Heritage Foundation) has assembled an
extensive collection of images of ethnographic artifacts (+900). The collection
consists of images of jewelry, clothing, utensils, ritual objects and weapons.
Many of the objects were acquired by their donors during the late 1950s and
early 1960s. Additionally, over 100 clips from videos, +1000 images, 5 audio
(including music) featuring Papuan culture and music are available online.
Description
& Scope:
From the PACE Organization page:
PACE (Papua Heritage Foundation) was founded in September 2001. It gives
access to and digitizes cultural heritage such as artifacts, documents, books,
movies, pictures and oral history. The Foundation does this by collaborating with
private individuals, museums and religious institutions. This heritage is made
accessible to users in The Netherlands, in West Papua and internationally by
publishing it in Dutch, English and Malay. Where possible heritage items are
repatriated to West Papua.
Type of
Content:
Images, video, audio and documents.
Rights: From the PACE Books and Documents page:
Copyright
The PACE site provides access to various publications, documents, images, audio
clips and other such material which our foundation has made digitally accessible
under license from its owner (s). In some cases, despite thorough efforts and
care taken, we have failed to identify the copyright owners.
Nonetheless, any work made accessible is still subject to copyright protection
under the provisions of the Dutch Copyright Act 1912.
Metadata: From pipe - PACE:
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Good metadata in mixed English/Dutch: Origin(s), dimensions, production
technique, thesaurus terms (material, cultural, geographic, objects categorical
thesaurus). Appears to use art/museum international standards (perhaps Getty
AAT?).
Contact
Information:
Papua Heritage Foundation info at papuaheritage.org
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Country: Indonesia
Title: Lontar Foundation – Lontar Digital Library
URL: http://library.lontar.org/
Scale: Collections of images: Indonesian manuscripts (+250) and Indonesian
Performance Traditions (19), as well as film/video of notable Indonesian authors
(30+) available online.
Description
& Scope:
From the About the Lontar Digital Library:
Similar to the objectives of the Lontar Foundation, the Lontar Digital Library
seeks to:
• Provide access to Indonesian literature, history and culture;
• Expand the volume and variety of Indonesian literature and cultural content
on the Internet; and,
• Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences.
The Lontar Digital Library provides preservation and access to materials
produced and gathered by the foundation over its 20+ year history including:
• Books and journals: publications by Lontar, Amanah and Godown (imprints
of the Lontar Foundation), as well as information about Lontar’s library
holdings (a collections of over 3,000 books and other research materials
related to Indonesian history, literature, drama, language, poetry and other
topics.
• Video: films from the Indonesian Writers Series, Indonesian Performance
Traditions, and Wayang Kulit/Shadow Puppet Theater Series
• Audio: interviews and recordings with Indonesian authors and witnesses
from significant events in Indonesian history.
• Images: archival photographs of traditional manuscripts, colonial-era
postcards, and historical images from the New Order to the present.
The Lontar Digital library will allow users to search for materials by title, author,
subject and type, as well as browse materials by collection title. All materials
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produced by Lontar will be preserved in high-resolution digital format. Previews
and brief clips will be made available online.
Type of
Content:
Images, video and documents.
Rights: From the Lontar Digital Library home page:
Data in the Lontar Digital Library (LDL) is made available under the Open Data
Commons Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0 license). Copyright of images and
book covers included in the LDL is reserved by the original copyright holders
unless otherwise stated. Books in PDF format and videos are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
License.Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at
http://www.lontar.org. Information about people and organizations from
Wikipedia is licensed under CC BY-SA unless otherwise stated.
From the Images page:
Terms and Conditions
The contents of the Lontar Digital Library are available for your use in research,
teaching and private study.
Some of these items are protected by Indonesian Copyright Law and some items
may have additional restrictions. If you use the items in this collection, make
sure you abide by any restrictions stated in the Rights section for each item.
The nature of these collections often makes it difficult to determine the copyright
status of an item. We have made every effort to provide information about
copyright owners and other restrictions. It is your responsibility to use the item
according to the terms governing its use.
If you are a copyright holder and the information is either not listed or listed
incorrectly, please let us know so that we can update the information on our site.
Metadata: Good metadata in English and/or Indonesian. Based on Dublin Core (title,
description, creator, medium, original language, longitude, latitude).
Contact
Information:
Lontar Librarian
library at lontar.org
Lontar Foundation
Jl. Danau Laut Tawar No 53
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Pejompongan, Jakarta 10210 Indonesia
Phone: +62-21-574-6880 Fax: +62-21-572-0353
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Country: Lao PDR
Title: Digital Library of Lao
Manuscripts
URL: http://www.laomanuscripts.net/en/index
Scale: +12,000 images of Lao manuscripts
Description
& Scope:
From the Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts Home Page:
The Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts makes images of almost 12,000 texts from
throughout Laos easily accessible for study. Collaborating institutions are the
National Library of Laos, the University of Passau, and the Staatsbibliothek zu
Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz. The project is funded by the German Research
Foundation (DFG) and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and
Development (BMZ).
There is a wide diversity in the manuscript collection, covering a large
geographical area and historical timeframe, different literary traditions and
schools of scribes, and different languages and scripts. The majority of the texts
are from the Lao, Lan Na and Tai Lue traditions, with smaller numbers in Tai
Nuea, and Tai Dam, etc.
The DLLM database can be searched by title, ancillary term, language, script,
category, material, location, date, and code number. Images of the manuscripts
can be viewed online or copied to your desktop, and complete sets of images of
inventoried texts can be downloaded. The grey-tone images were digitised from
microfilm, while colour images were taken directly from the original manuscripts.
Type of
Content:
Images
Rights: According to David Wharton, researcher with the National Library of Laos2:
The Preservation of Lao Manuscripts Programme (PLMP) of the National Library
of Laos holds the copyright to the images in the digital library. They are freely
available for educational and non-commercial use without contacting the library.
Please acknowledge the source as: Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts, National
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Library of Laos, and feel free to provide links to the website.
If you would like to print any of the images for publication, please contact the
library for permission. In this case, better resolution 300ppi images are also
available.
Metadata: From Cao hong fa kham/ເຈົ ້ າຫົງຜາຄໍ າ. (n.d.). Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts:
Excellent metadata in English/Lao (title, language, script, location, date,
category, material, complete, no. of fascicles, no. of folios., condition, image
legibility, colophon, illustrated, PLMP Code and remarks).
Contact
Information:
The Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts
National Library of Laos,
Setthathirat Road,
PO Box 8818,
Vientiane,
Lao PDR
Tel/Fax: +856 (0)21 26 46 56
Email: laomanuscripts at gmail.com
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Country: Malaysia
Title: State Library: Pustaka Negeri Sarawak
URL: http://www.pustaka-sarawak.com/Pustaka-Sarawak/index.php
Scale: From Multimedia Galeri - Home page:
Several collections are online, including:
1) Aviola: sound recordings on the oral tradition, musical recordings of ethnic
group of Sarawak.
2) Merpati: 103 paintings
Description
& Scope:
From the Digital Initiatives Background page:
The digital collection represents digital surrogates for rare and significant
materials on Sarawak. Apart from improving considerably the availability and
usage of these materials, this digital project was initiated to create a Center of
Excellence for research resources and works on Sarawak. As well as providing
services to present day and future users, Pustaka is obliged to ensure that the
precious originals are properly managed. This project evolved 4 parts which
includes:
a. In-house collection - digitization of selected rare materials on Sarawak,
lithographs, theses and newspaper cuttings on Sarawak
b. Off-site collection - digitization of significant materials (based on
recommendations and expert opinions) on Sarawak which are held by
other agencies such as the Department of the Sarawak Museum, Majlis
Adat Istiadat, SAG's office, and the likes
c. Creation of new collection - Born digital (Pustaka commissioning the
research and production of information materials in digital formats)
d. Acquisition of readily available digital resources
- Obtained through purchase
- Secure through the Legal Deposit provision
-
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The objectives of this initiative are :
a. To provide access to digital representation of primary sources materials
documenting and illustrating the culture and history of Sarawak
b. To serve as a rich and coherent intellectual resources that help to foster
research about Sarawak's culture and history
c. To have alternatives format for fragile materials
d. To have control over collections and information contained in them
e. To increase and broaden access to collection
f. As a mean of securing old collection by preserving them in digital
formats
Type of
Content:
1) From the Aviola collections page:
Contains of sound recordings on the oral tradition, musical recordings of ethnic
group of Sarawak. Technical note: Recordings were not able to be played
accessed online – may need to be onsite to do so.
2) From the Merpati collections page:
This collection contains about 103 paintings (art reproduction), which were
displayed during an Art Exhibition by one of the local universities. This collection
constitutes a unique photographic record of life in Sarawak, places, scenes and
events from the various communities in Sarawak.
Rights: From Sarawak State Library Home page:
© Sarawak State Library. All Rights Reserved | © Pustaka Negeri Sarawak.
Hakcipta Terpelihara
Metadata: 1) From the Aviola collections page:
Good metadata available in English, as brief/full and MARC records.
2) From the Merpati collections page:
The Merpati collection has metadata available in both Dublin Core (title, creator,
subject, date created, resource type, format extent, resource identifier,
collection, e-location & access and rating) and MARC.
Contact
Information:
librarian at sarawaknet.gov.my
Pustaka Negeri Sarawak
Jalan Pustaka, off Jalan Stadium
93050 Kuching
Sarawak, Malaysia.
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Tel : 6082-442000
Fax : 6082- 449944
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Country: Malaysia
Title: The Sabah Museum/Jabatan Muzium Sabah
URL: http://museum.sabah.gov.my/
Scale: The Sabah Museum appears to have several different digital collections:
Ethnography, Ceramic, Zoology and Herbarium.
Description
& Scope:
From Sabah Museum Online Collections - Ethnography Collection and Ceramic
Collection:
See above. The Ethnography collection appears to have +80 objects. The
Ceramic collection appears to have 70+ objects.
Type of
Content:
Primarily images.
Rights: From the Sabah Museum Copyright page:
Copyright Policy
All materials, i.e., contents, information, text, images, graphics, applications,
sound files, video files, the structure arrangement, source codes and all other
aspects, are copyright of the Sabah Museum unless otherwise indicated.
No part of this website may be modified, copied, distributed, retransmitted,
broadcasted, displayed, reproduced, published, licensed, transferred, sold or
commercially dealt with in any manner without the prior written permission from
the Sabah Museum.
Metadata: Basic metadata in English (title, ethnic community, object (object name,
alternate name) and dimensions (length and width, if applicable).
Contact
Information:
Sabah Museum Complex
Jalan Muzium, 88300 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Tel: (+6088) 253199, (+6088) 225033
Fax: (+6088) 240230
Email: Muzium.Sabah at sabah.gov.my
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Country: Philippines
Title:
Filipinas Heritage Library
URL: http://www.filipinaslibrary.org.ph/
Scale: From Filipinas Heritage Library – Home:
Several digital rare book/serial collections, including:
• The Life and Times of Admiral George Dewey (5 digitized books),
• Oldest Materials in the Collection (1 manuscript available online -
Ilustracion Filipina),
• Early Editions of Jose Rizal's novels Noli Me Tangere and El
Filibusterismo, in Spanish, English, and Tagalog translations (7
editions available online)
• Philippine Annual Reports and Yearbooks (2 digitized reports),
• Biographies of Great Men (2 digitized books)
• Philippine Commission, In Depth (3 digitized reports).
Description
& Scope:
From the Rare Materials Collection page:
The Filipinas Heritage Library is housed in the historic Nielson Tower,
once the passenger terminal and control tower of the first commercial airport of
the Philippines and now the only remaining pre-World War II building in the
Makati Central Business District. But the Library lays claim to a historical worth
that goes beyond its structure and goes back to centuries before the war.
The Library is home to a valuable collection of rare books on the
Philippines, with materials ranging from seventeenth-century historical accounts
by Spanish missionaries to early twentieth-century reports of the Philippine
Commission of the United States government. Other valuable materials in the
library’s collection are eighteenth-century grammars of Philippine languages,
twentieth-century studies on Philippine flora and fauna, polemical writings on the
Philippine Revolution, and personal recollections of battles in the Philippines
during World War II.
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With its holdings on Philippine arts and letters, religion and politics,
social and natural sciences, dating from the early 1600s to the mid-1900s, the
Rare Books Collection of the Filipinas Heritage Library is indeed a treasure trove
of materials on Philippine history.
Type of
Content:
Digitized books available via Flipbook (http://www.digizines.com/) – of which the
Abstract, Bibliographic Description, and Preliminary Pages are free for viewing.
Subscription required for viewing full text.
Rights: From the Home page of the Filipinas Heritage Library:
Copyright © 2013 Filipinas Heritage Library. All Rights Reserved.
Metadata: Minimal metadata in English appears to be based on MARC (title, author,
abstract, call number, subject, publication and physical description, if available).
Contact
Information:
Filipinas Heritage Library
A Division of Ayala Foundation, Inc.
Address:
Makati Avenue, Ayala Triangle
Makati City, Philippines 1224
Telephone: T : (632) 892-1801
Fax: F : (632) 892-1810
http://filipinaslibrary.org.ph
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Country: Philippines
Title: Retrato – Photo Archive of the Filipinas Heritage Library
URL: http://www.retrato.com.ph/
Scale: From Retrato introduction page:
+35,000 images
Description
& Scope:
From Retrato introduction page:
Retrato is where the public can view the images in the Filipinas Heritage
Library’s Photo Archive. It consists of searchable black-and-white images, in
thumbnail size, depicting Philippine life through the late-19th and early-20th
centuries. The images are documented according to a standard adopted by the
Library.
A long-term project, Retrato has these aims:
• To classify and document the approximately 35,000 images in the
Library’s Photo Archive.
• To digitize these images and make them accessible online, with a system
for ordering and payment.
• To expand the collection to include images from the second half of the
20th century
Type of
Content:
From Organizing the Photo Archive page:
Black and white images categorized into 18 generic headings: Arts and Craft,
Architecture, Celebrations and Observances, Churches and Church Art, Clothing
and Adornments, Filipinas Circa (period photos of Philippine life), Foreign
Profiles, Geographical, Historical File, Industries , Memorial
(commemorating a person or an event, Plant and Animal Life, Peoples, Philippine
Profile (Filipino men and women in various fields of endeavor), Public Works and
Facilities, Religious Images, Special Collections (sets from a common source),
and Special Subjects.
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Rights: From the Retrato Terms and Conditions:
The undersigned understands and is agreeable to the following terms and
conditions which bind this authorization:
1. The photograph/s may be used solely for the purpose indicated above.
Authorization must be secured and corresponding fees must be paid for
each use in and per edition of any publication containing reproductions
from FHL.
2. One copy of any publication containing/video tape/CD-ROM including
images from the Filipinas Heritage Library must be given to the Filipinas
Heritage Library on publication or release date.
3. One copy of each photograph, color slide, transparency and video clip
taken must also be given to the Filipinas Heritage Library.
4. Filipinas Heritage Library is to be acknowledged in the
publication/video tape/CD-ROM which include images from the Filipinas
Heritage Library Photo Collection. Acknowledgement should carry the
name "Filipinas Heritage Library".
5. Payment of fees, including the deposit fee, is to be made before
photo/filming session.
6. The Ayala Foundation Inc.shall not be liable for any use contrary to
law of reproductions from the Filipinas Heritage Library.
Metadata: From Organizing the Photo Archive page and One of the Photo pages: Ati-Atihan:
Very good metadata in English, developed by comparing with SEAiT (South East
Asian images & Texts Project): (photo ID, generic heading, subject, title, place,
date, photographer, collection, notes, if available).
Contact
Information:
RETRATO
Filipinas Heritage Library
A division of Ayala Foundation, Inc.
6F Ayala Museum
Makati Ave. cor. De la Rosa St.
Makati City
Telephone (632) 7577117 loc 36
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Fax (632) 757-3588
E-mail asklibrarian at filipinaslibrary.org.ph
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Country: Philippines
Title: The University of the Philippines
Center for Ethnomusicology
URL: http://www.upethnom.com/index.php
Scale: +22,000 objects but unclear how many are available online.
Description
& Scope:
From the UP Center for Ethnomusicology About Us – Our Roots page:
The UP CENTER FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY is a center for music research with
material collections on the music and musical traditions in the Philippines,
Southeast Asia, and representative areas from other continents. The Center was
founded by Dr. Jose M. Maceda (1917- 2004), composer, ethnomusicologist,
pianist, philosopher, scholar, and National Artist. It was established by the Board
of Regents of the University of the Philippines on June 16, 1997. The core
holding of the Center is the Jose Maceda Collection, consisting of library and
archive materials including sound recordings, field notes, video, film, still
photographs, and other documentary items as well as musical instruments, and
original music compositions that were put together by Dr. Maceda, his research
staff and other scholars since 1953. Together with Dr. Maceda’s personal
collections which were officially transferred and deposited at the U.P. Center for
Ethnomusicology last September 22, 2005, the collection has recently been
inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register in August 2007, as an
item of documentary heritage of exceptional value. The Center is located on the
second floor, Main Building of the U.P. College of Music, Abelardo Hall, Diliman,
Quezon City.
Type of
Content:
From The Collection - UP Center for Ethnomusicology:
Collection includes digital photos, field notes, audio recordings, images of
instruments and musical scores. While the images appear to be available online,
it’s not clear how many of the other objects are available online.
Rights: From the UPCE Collections Portal - Terms of Service:
2. Digital Content.
The UPCE Collections Portal. The Collections Portal enable you, subject to the
restrictions set forth herein, to browse the Collection catalog and view sample
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Digital Content (catalogs, diagrams, scores, audio, video, documents, and
images) on your devices, including but not limited to mobile devices, e-readers,
and personal computers.
Restrictions. You may not copy, rip, download, upload, reproduce, exhibit,
present, transmit, distribute, broadcast, sell, rent, lease, transfer, or assign
rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it except as expressly permitted by
the Center. In addition, you may not remove any watermarks, labels, or other
proprietary notices on or in the Digital Content. The copyright in all the Digital
Content remains the property of their respective owners.
Metadata: From Details: UPCE-P-1 and Details: UPCE-I-20 - UP Center for Ethnomusicology
Good metadata in English for images (format, catalog number, collection type,
researchers/author, group/country, year and description). For images of musical
instruments, dimensions are also provided.
Contact
Information:
U.P. Center for Ethnomusicology
Abelardo Hall, College of Music
University of the Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines 1101
Telephone: (+632) 9257139
Fax: (+632) 9296963
Email: upethno at gmail.com
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Country: Singapore
Title: Singapore Collections Online
(SGCool)
URL: http://www.sgcool.sg/eMP/eMuseumPlus
Scale: From the NHB’s FAQs:
Provides access to the digitized works from the museums and heritage
interpretive centres under the National Heritage Board:
• Asian Civilisations Museum
• The Peranakan Museum
• National Museum of Singapore
• National Archives of Singapore
• Reflections at Bukit Chandu
• Memories at Old Ford Factory
• Singapore Philatelic Museum
• Singapore Art Museum
• 8Q sam
Note: Although the site appears to be a portal, it appears that users are not
able to link online from an object in the SGCool site to the museum/centre that
houses the object.
Description
& Scope:
From the SGCool home page:
The Singapore Collections Online (SGCOOL) website is an online repository of
artefacts and artworks in Singapore, making available to the public highlights
from the National Heritage Board's collection. This website provides virtual
access to digitised artefacts and artworks of the collection. Visitors can now view
cultural treasures and historical artefacts at the click of a mouse and in the
comfort of their own homes.
SGCOOL is a resource for researchers, art aficionados and enthusiasts alike. The
collection includes iconic pieces such as Singapore's leading artist Tan Swie
Hian's Humming Birds Racing; celebrated artist John Singer Sargent's century-
old, highly valued portrait of Sir Frank A. Swettenham and the Kushana Buddha,
one of the few rare examples of this kind of sculptures in the world. Many of
these images are accompanied by summarised write-ups on the artefact or
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artwork.
Artefact and artwork images from NHB's collection are updated and uploaded to
the SGCOOL website regularly. Enjoy our selected highlights by clicking on
Highlights above or click on Search to embark on your journey of discovery.
Terms of Use apply.
To experience these artefacts and artworks first hand, please visit our family of
museums.
Type of
Content:
Primarily images of artworks and artefacts.
Rights: From the SGCool Terms of Use:
Proprietary & Copy Rights
3. This Website is owned and provided by the National Heritage Board
(NHB).
4. The contents of this Website including, but not limited to, text,
information, images, documentation, software, files, audio and video
files/clips and other materials contained on or available through this
Website (the Content) are protected by copyright, trademark and other
forms of proprietary rights and restrictions.
5. NHB fully retains all rights, title and interest it may hold in the Contents,
including but not limited to copyright.
6. Copyright in the Content on this Website may also reside in persons and
entities other than, and in addition to, NHB. NHB is fully committed to
respecting the intellectual property rights belonging to others.
Reasonable effort has therefore been made to trace any such copyright
holders to obtain their permission for the use of copyright material on
this Website. Any information or queries in respect of this should be
addressed to: NHB_SGCOOL at nhb.gov.sg.
Restrictions on Use of Contents
8. No part of the Contents of this Website shall be reproduced, copied,
published, adapted, uploaded, posted, transmitted or otherwise
distributed in any way, without the prior written permission of NHB. A
request for permission in writing, stating the part(s) of the Contents
required; the nature of the use; time frame of use and identity of the
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user can be addressed to: NHB_SGCOOL at nhb.gov.sg . NHB reserves
the right to require more information about the proposed use or the
user; and to refuse permission without assigning any reason.
Metadata: From SGCool - Slippers:
Very good metadata in English (object name/title, description, dating, region,
dimension, accession number, creditline, museum and permalink).
Contact
Information:
NHB HEADQUARTERS
E-mail: nhb_feedback at nhb.gov.sg
Hotline: 1800–CALL–NHB (1800-2255-642)
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Country: Singapore
Title: Singapore Memory
URL: http://www.singaporememory.sg/
Scale: From The Singapore Memory Project:
National movement to capture “memories” that uses crowdsourcing and mobile
apps to stimulate residents and visitors to capture and document experiences
about the country.
Description
& Scope:
From the Singapore Memory About Us page:
The Singapore Memory Project (SMP) is a whole-of-nation movement that aims
to capture and document precious moments and memories related to Singapore;
recollections not merely from individual Singaporeans, but also organisations,
associations, companies and groups.
The SMP currently involves partners (academic, research and library institutions,
heritage agencies, public agencies, private entities and community
organisations) and Memory Corps – volunteers who serve various roles, such as
helping individuals with difficulties documenting their memories; connecting the
SMP to people with memories of key Singapore events, personalities and places;
and enrolling more volunteers to join the SMP cause.
The web portal – SingaporeMemory.sg - allows every Singaporean to own a
memory account to deposit their memories and stories. Memories can be
deposited in the form of texts, audio files, video files or images. The web portal
will help in community bonding by connecting contributors with shared memories
and similar experiences. This will help to draw Singaporeans from all walks of life
closer and foster greater social cohesion.
Type of
Content:
From the Singapore Memory FAQs:
Memories can be personal accounts that tell the Singapore Story, be it past or
present memories; in physical or digital format. These may come in the form of
photographs, letters, ephemeral, manuscripts, videos, or oral interviews. The
stories can be as recent as something that happened a few minutes ago. What is
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present now, will serve as a past memory for future generations.
Rights: From the Singapore Memory Terms and Conditions:
Proprietary Rights
This Web Site is created, updated and maintained by NLB. When any user
deposits or donates any memories at this Portal, the user does so on the strict
legal understanding that, all such memories are deposited or donated in
accordance with the laws of the Republic of Singapore, especially the National
Library Board Act (Cap. 197), a Singapore legislation/stature that can be
accessed at the www.agc.gov.sg website. The user should either have the legal
ownership to the said deposited or donated memories and/or have the legal
authority granted to him by the legal owner of the said memories to deposit or
donate the said memories at this Portal. Additionally, the user who deposits or
donates the memories at this Portal for the Singapore Memory Project shall
complete all the fields of information details requested at the deposit or donation
sub-page of this Portal. All information details and entries must be factually
accurate, to the best of the user’s actual knowledge. The intellectual property
rights to the deposited or donated memories shall be reasonably reflected and
attributed by all users of this Portal, who shall print, download and use the
memories for both non-commercial educational and research purposes.
The memories and library materials located on this Web Site including the
information and software programs (the Contents), are protected by copyright,
trademark and other forms of proprietary rights. All rights, title and interest in
the Contents are owned by, licensed to or controlled by NLB and the respective
Singapore Government Agencies and contributors of memories whose names are
attributed herein.
For all memories contributed to this Portal by any and all Parties, the Parties
shall grant to the NLB, the perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to
digitise, make available to third party(s) and/or members of the public via the
Internet and/or successive technologies for downloading, printing and shall grant
to the NLB and SMP the right to reproduce and republish this Portal’s contents in
any formats and platforms including print; electronic media; social media
platforms; websites; publications; for both NLB’s and SMP’s internal and external
uses and for non-commercial purposes. The afore stated licence grants the NLB
the legal right to sub-licence for non-commercial use the contents of this Portal
at NLB’s sole discretion and on such terms as the NLB may impose on the users.
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Such non-commercial use includes but is not limited to, use for personal
enjoyment, private study and research purposes and/or posting of all content
item(s).
When using and re-using the memories and library materials located on this Web
Site, the online Patrons of this digital library portal of the NLB, shall undertake to
comply with the various formalities stated herein, complete the relevant forms
and undertakings attached and fill in all the information details requested
truthfully at the respective web page.
Metadata: Because the material is largely generated through user contributions, metadata
(and content) is variable.
Contact
Information:
National Library Boards of Singapore (NLB)
Tel: +65 6332 3133
Fax: +65 6332 3233
Address:
National Library Board
100 Victoria Street #14-01
Singapore 188064
helpdesk at library.nlb.gov.sg
Helpdesk at +65 6332 3255
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Country: Singapore
Title: NAS National Archives – Access to Archives
Online (A2O)
URL: http://www.a2o.com.sg
Scale: National archive
Description
& Scope:
From Home - Access to Archives Online, Singapore:
Various digital collections, including: 1) Private Textual Records - Records of
private organisations include those from clan associations, clubs, associations,
religious organisations and individuals which provide insights into Singapore's
history and heritage. PRISM (Private Records Information System); 2) Old
Building Plans and Maps -The NAS' holdings include old building plans and maps,
which are part of Singapore's documentary heritage. The maps include
topographical, geographical, road maps and hydrographic charts. CARDS
(Cartographic & Architectural Records Database Singapore); 3) Oral History
Recordings - The NAS has databases of interviews that capture the social,
political and economic fabric of Singapore. The collection is based on themes
such as: Pioneers of Singapore, Japanese Occupation of Singapore, Vanishing
Trades, Communities of Singapore, Oral Traditions, Political Developments,
Economic Growth, Senior Civil Servants and Education. CORD (Collection of Oral
History Recording Database) 4) Photographs/Images - Our photographs and
images are acquired from government and private sources. Comprising
photographs dating from the 19th Century to the present, this collection
documents various aspects of Singapore's history and society. Subjects include
landscape, sports, costumes, festivals, architecture, arts and entertainment, and
transportation. PICAS (Picture Archives Singapore); 5) Audio-Visual Collection -
The collection dates back to the 1940s and includes film, television, radio, music
and sound recordings, newsreels and associated materials such as film posters.
MISAS (Moving Image and Sound Archives Singapore)
Type of
Content:
Digitized documents and images – unclear whether audio/video is available
online.
Rights: From the National Archives of Singapore Terms of Use:
Content
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Except as otherwise provided, the Contents of this website shall not be
reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted or otherwise distributed
in any way, without the prior written permission of NAS.
You may use, hyperlink, copy and distribute the contents found on this website
solely for personal, internal, non-commercial, informational purposes only. You
may download one copy of any information provided in this website onto a single
computer for your own personal non-commercial use provided that you keep
intact all accompanying copyright and other proprietary notices. You may not
display, distribute or otherwise use any of the content found on this website for
any commercial purpose unless you receive specific written consent from NAS.
Modification of any of the Contents or use of the Contents for any other purpose
will be a violation of NAS's copyright and other intellectual property rights.
Graphics and images on this website are protected by copyright and may not be
reproduced or appropriated in any manner without the written permission of
their respective copyright owners.
The design and layout of this website is protected by intellectual property and
other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part. No logo,
graphic, sound, image or search engine from this website may be copied or
transmitted unless expressly permitted by NAS.
Metadata: Very good metadata available for all content – metadata varies by content type
(document, image, audio, video, etc.).
Contact
Information:
National Archives of Singapore
1 Canning Rise, Singapore 179868
Tel: (65) 6332 7909
Fax: (65) 6339 3583
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Country: Thailand
Title: CMUL Digital Heritage
Collection
URL: http://library.cmu.ac.th/cmul/en/content/special-collections
Scale: From CMUL Digital Heritage Collection page:
Approximately +800 objects.
Description
& Scope:
Chiang Mai University Library has been digitizing a large collection of palm leaves
mostly found in the north of Thailand and has made them accessible online to
researchers with accompanying metadata.
Type of
Content:
Digitized images of Thai manuscripts.
Rights: From CMUL Special Collections page:
Copyright©2010 Chiang Mai University Library. All rights reserved
Metadata: From Search Picture Lanna
Very good metadata with titles in English and Thai and content in Thai (title,
creator, manuscripts, digitization location, name of script, name of donor,
investigator, Hulsakrach of script, Buddhist era of investigation, type, format of
the original, digital format, identifier number, script, language, right of
digitization institution, manuscript condition, integrity, resolution detail).
Contact
Information:
Ms. Wararak Phattanakietphong (library director)
wararak at lib.cmu.ac.th
Chiang Mai University Library
239 Huay Kaew Road, Muang District, Chiang Mai 50200, THAILAND Phone: 0-
5394-4531 FAX: 0-5322-2766
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Country: Thailand
Title: CMUL Lanna
(Northern Thai)
Collections
URL: http://library.cmu.ac.th/cmul/en/content/special-collections
Scale: Approximately 833 objects.
Description
& Scope:
From the Pictures Lanna – Overview and History:
The Chiang Mai University Library has been well aware of its significance of being
a Northern Thai Information Center, and this has become one of the main
missions of the library. The center was established to be a Northern Thai
Information Center providing services and supporting the idea and goal of
becoming a learning society within the university and among the members of the
northern community.
Since in the fiscal year 2007, the library has established a service of publicizing
information about the north of Thailand through computer networks both inside
and outside the university. The library has cooperated with the Computer
Technology Service Center (now the Information Technology Service Center) in
the preparation and publicizing e-Northern Information Multimedia as one of the
activities of the Living Library Project which is a step to becoming a learning
society. The first year of the project started with the launching of a presentation
of “Lanna Food” through http://library.cmu.ac.th/ntic/en_lannafood to
disseminate, preserve, improve and carry on the cultural identity and local
wisdom of Lanna and to support the government’s Food Safety policy through a
user friendly multimedia IT service.
In the next fiscal year of 2008, the library and the Information Technology
Service Center will collaborate in the project of publicizing the “Lanna Pictures”
at http://library.com.ac.th/ntic/en_picturelanna with the objectives as
follows:
1. To collect and present through electronic media the Lanna pictures and
descriptions (of Chiang Mai, Lamphun, Mae Hong Son, and Chiang Rai)
taken and provided by Mr. Boonserm Satrabhaya.
2. To compare the pictures of the old and the present Lanna in electronics
media.
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3. To collect and publish through the World Wide Web the biography of
Boonserm Satrabhaya, a man who deserves to be honored and praised
as a history photographer of Lanna and a story teller of the past through
his photos.
4. To publicize the valuable information about northern Thailand for
research and studies.
5. To instill in the northerners the Lanna spirit as well as the pride and
awareness of the protection and preservation of their historical and
cultural heritages.
The past pictures of Lanna to be presented in fiscal year 2008 will be limited to
only the works of Boonserm Satrabhaya, a total of 665 photos taken from 1939-
1992 containing photos of the following provinces:
598 photos of Chiang Mai
8 photos of Chiang Rai
2 photos of Lampang
15 photos of Lamphun
20 photos of Mae Hong Son
7 photos of Tak
15 photos of Nan (Tong Lueang or Mlabri tribe)
Besides the pictures of the past, the project had presented the present scenes of
the same sites to show the changes of Lanna, especially to Chiang Mai.
“Good pictures…must contain stories”, therefore, the staff and advisory
committee of the project realized that the preparation and organization of the
descriptive and supporting information would be helpful for research and study
so they put an effort in adding as much details as possible from reliable sources
and interviews with Mr. Boonserm the photographer, and other experts.
The presentation of these photos is done in data base form for the convenience
of the users to search by keywords, topic and the photographer’s name. In the
future the responsible staff will add more photos of the Lanna past taken by
other photographers.
Type of
Content:
Digitized collection of 833 images of Northern Thai food, culture, history and
architecture.
Rights: From the Photo Lanna Collection page:
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Content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-
NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).
From an individual photo page:
Rights Access: Saving or printing of all photos or contents are allowed only
for research or study purposes. For other purposes, contact
the Chiang Mai University Library for permission.
Metadata: From CMUL Digital Heritage Collection - 07158:
Very good metadata (possibly Dublin Core) with titles in English and Thai and
content in English and Thai (title, creator, keyword, subject, description,
publisher, publisher.place, publisher.email, contributor, format.IMT,
format.extent, image number, rights, rights access, digitization location, name of
script, name of donor, investigator, Hulsakrach of script, Buddhist era of
investigation, type, format of the original, digital format, identifier number,
script, language, right of digitization institution, manuscript condition, integrity,
resolution detail).
Contact
Information:
Ms. Wararak Phattanakietphong (library director)
wararak at lib.cmu.ac.th
Chiang Mai University Library
239 Huay Kaew Road, Muang District, Chiang Mai 50200, THAILAND Phone: 0-
5394-4531 FAX: 0-5322-2766
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Country: Thailand
Title: Digital
Archive of
Research on Thailand (DART)
URL: http://dartproject.org/xmlui-dart/community-list?locale-attribute=en
Scale: From the DART Archive:
Approximately 2072 images of Thailand, categorized into general themes and
topics such as agriculture, religious rites and ceremonies, housing and buildings,
handicrafts, birth/marriage/death, and other.
Description
& Scope:
According to the Communities in DART page, collections include digitized images
from:
Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre:
• Chavivun Prachuabmoh ฉวีวรรณ ประจวบเหมาะ
• Michael Moerman Photograph Collection
University of Washington Libraries DART Collections:
• Charles and Jane Keyes Thailand Photograph Collection
• Charles Keyes Thailand Field Notebooks 1960s
Type of
Content:
From the DART Archive:
Digitized color images and field notes/documents (with login restrictions).
Rights: From the Michael Moerman Photograph Collection page:
Copyright Information
All rights to information, images and documents in the Michael Moerman
collection are held by the Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre in Bangkok, Thailand.
For more information, please contact the Thailand Anthropological Archive
Project.
Address:
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Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
20 Pha Boromarachachonnani Rd. Bangkok 10170
Tel. +66 2 8809429
Fax. +66 2 8809332
Email. archive at sac.or.th
Metadata: From Basket and wicker shop:
Very good metadata (Dublin Core) includes title, contributor, coverage, date,
date.accessioned, date.available, date.issued, identifier, identifier.URI, format,
relation and subject in – much of the metadata (titles and data) is available in
both English and Thai.
Contact
Information:
Email: libsa at u.washington.edu
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Country: Thailand
Title: Princess Maha Chakri
Sirindhorn
Anthropology Centre
URL: http://www.sac.or.th/en
Scale: Several collections, including:
• Anthropological Archives (in cooperation with DART – see above)
• Inscriptions in Thailand database (approx. 2274 objects)
• Rare Books of Siam
As well as other digitized collections not yet available online.
Description
& Scope:
From the Inscriptions in Thailand Database - About Us page:
“The Inscriptions in Thailand Database Project”, which is ongoing at the moment,
is a continuing project developed from the “Mulberry paper turned digital
database on steles and inscription project” between 2541 and 2545 B.E., which
was a co-operation between the Department of Oriental Languages, Faculty of
Archaeology, Silpakorn University. That project was led by lecturer Anchana
Chitsutthiyarn and Associate Professor Kannikar Wimonkasem, and Princess
Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre, (formerly affiliated to Silpakorn
University but now an independent organization), led by Professor Khunying
Khaisri Sri-arun (former director of the centre). When this project finished in
2545 B.E., the current project “Thailand’s steles and inscriptions database
experimental project” followed, established to classify information in digital
format, and group it in accordance with the regions and provinces where various
steles and inscriptions were found.
Later, in 2546 B.E. Dr. Paritta Chalermpow Koanantakool, the director of
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (Public organization) at
that time, came up with an idea to modernize the data searching system as well
as add more information to each stele and inscription in order to make them
more complete. This initiative brought about the following tri-partite co-
operation:
1. The Department of Oriental Languages, Faculty of Archaeology,
Silpakorn University.
2. Research and Development Department, High Performance Computing
Center, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC).
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3. Research and Research Support Unit, Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
Anthropology Centre (Public organization). Currently, the modernized
and up-dated database is in service, but only for the sections where
information is complete. The information team kept re-writing
information into groups in accordance with the types of letters it
uncovered and has now completed certain stages. Any newly completed
information will be added should new discoveries be made, and the
reading and translations made ready for public use.
From the Rare Books of Siam page:
As part of its mission to collect and organize documentary resources in the field
of anthropology and related disciplines, the SAC is currently collecting rare
manuscripts and archival materials to be housed and digitized at the SAC library.
The copyright of many of these books and documents has expired, and therefore
they are very difficult to find. The project team hopes to make these resources
available to interested individuals in an easy-to-use format.
The Rare Books of Siam project was launched in November 2007, and made its
first resources available to the public in October 2008 through a digital collection
of literature by the author Wachira Yanwiset. Since then, the project team has
divided its manuscripts and documents into four main categories: books by
Wachira Yanwiset; literature; history and ethnic groups; and journals and
newspapers.
The main goal of this project is to make these valuable resources available for
study and for pleasure while protecting and preserving the original documents.
For further information about the Rare Books of Siam project, please enter the
project’s Thai language website HERE, or contact Anan Sommool.
Type of
Content:
Images and documents.
Rights: Unknown.
Metadata: From Prasat Mueang Sing Inscription (K.Ch. 4) (Thai version):
Very good metadata in English available for the Inscriptions in Thailand Database
(name, script, date, language, face/line, material, form, size, found at,
exhibited, description, reference, illustrations).
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Contact
Information:
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre
20 Baromaratchachonnani Rd,
Taling Chan, Bangkok 10170
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Country: Viet Nam
Title: National Library of Viet
Nam - Indochina Book
Collection
URL: http://sach.nlv.gov.vn/
Scale: From Indochinese Books Collection:
Collection contains 222 issues comprising 47,513 pages and 9,997 articles.
Description
& Scope:
From the Indochina Collection page:
Indochina Collection: is a rare collection of the National Library of Vietnam
comprised of 67,000 books copies published from the 17th century to 1954
contains historical, cultural, geographical value of Indochina. In order to
preserve valuable old materials in French, avoid damage by time passing,
researches and readers searching for such materials easily, the National Library
of Vietnam cooperate with French Embassy in Vietnam and Ministry of Foreign
Affairs in France to implement project on “Digitization of old French collection in
Vietnam” (VALEASE). At present, the National Library of Vietnam has digitized
over 95,000 pages (equal to 800 copies), compiled as electronic books and
upload on internet to serve readers.
Type of
Content:
Digitized books.
Rights: From the Indochina Collection page:
Copyright © 2013 National Library of Vietnam. All Rights Reserved
Metadata: From Indochinese Books Collection | Ai làm chấn động hoàn cầu 1939:
The Indochinese Books Collection has good metadata with titles available in
English and Vietnamese and data available in Vietnamese, French or English:
(code, title, author, area, publisher, year, number of pages, keywords and
description).
Contact
Information:
National Library of Vietnam
Address: 31 - Trang Thi Street - Hoan Kiem District– Hanoi Capital City
website: http://www.nlv.gov.vn, http://thuvienquocgia.vn
Email: info at nlv.gov.vn
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Tel: 84-4-38254938
Fax: 84-4-38248051, 84-4-38255357
Director: Ms. PHAN THI KIM DZUNG
Cell phone: 84-913249391
E-mail: phankimdung at nlv.gov.vn
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Country: Vietnam
Title: Han Nom Special
Collection
Digitization Project
URL: http://nlv.gov.vn/ef/en/han-nom-collection.html
Scale: From Han-Nom collection | Các bộ sưu tập:
National collection of approx. 1,258 digitized books (+192,000 pages).
Description
& Scope:
From the Han-Nom Collection page:
NLV’s Han-Nom collection is one of big collections of Vietnam about old books
written in Nom script. This collection includes 5,200 books published manually in
Do paper, of which a major numbers are in manuscript. This is a very precious
collection that NLV is archiving and serving readers. In order to provide long
term preservation of the collection as well as widely disseminate knowledge
about culture, history, geography ancient literature in those books, NLV has
collaborated with the Vietnamese Nom Preservation Foundation to digitalize this
collection. At present, NLV has digitalized and put on its website full text of
about 1,258 title of books (equivalent to 192,000 pages) at
http://nom.nlv.gov.vn. This is a full-text online database with interface in two
languages: English and Vietnamese.
Type of
Content:
Digitized books.
Rights: From the Sino-Nom Books page:
Copyright © 2013 National Library of Vietnam. All Rights Reserved
Metadata: From NLV-VNPF: The Han Nom Special Collection Digitization Project - nlvnpf-
0518-01:
The Sino-Nom Books collection has good (Dublin Core) metadata with titles
available in English and Vietnamese and data available in Vietnamese script or
Romanized text: (title, creator, place of publication, publisher, date, description
(images/size), contributor, type, format, language (script), identifier, source,
coverage, rights).
Contact National Library of Vietnam
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Information: Address: 31 - Trang Thi Street - Hoan Kiem District– Hanoi Capital City
website: http://www.nlv.gov.vn, http://thuvienquocgia.vn
Email: info at nlv.gov.vn
Tel: 84-4-38254938
Fax: 84-4-38248051, 84-4-38255357
Director: PHAN THI KIM DZUNG (Ms.)
Cell phone: 84-913249391
E-mail: phankimdung at nlv.gov.vn
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1 Rach, Johannes, d. 1783 & Rijksmuseum (Netherlands) & Perpustakaan Nasional (Indonesia) (2001).
Johannes Rach, 1720-1783 : artist in Indonesia and Asia. National Library of Indonesia : [and]
Rijkmuseum Amsterdam, Jakarta.
2 Wharton, D. (2013, July 29). Email regarding copyright status of Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts.
