peking university digital library programs overview 2003-10-27
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Peking University Digital Library Programs
Overview
2003-10-27
Outline
1. General Information
2. Collections
3. Local Digital Collections Development
4. Digitization Projects/Production Lines
5. Access to Digital Collection and Information
1. General Information
1.1 Building– 51000M2– 4000+ Seats– 6.5 Million Copies
1.2 Staffing– 200FTE + 10~20 PTE
1.3 Branches– 11
2. Collections:
2.1 Print Collection: 5 millions copies total– Books: 3 millions copies– Periodicals: 0.38 millions copies– Old Newspapers: dated before 1949
• 11547 Titles, 27650 Copies
– Rare Books:• 16300 Titles, 1.5 millions copies• Unique RB: 11268 Titles, 170000 copies
– Rubbings:• 24000 titles, 56000 pieces
2. 2 Commercial Digital Collections• Databases: 300 ( 2001:260 , 2002:270 )
– Chinese : 120+ English: 170+– Networked: 200+ CD-ROM: 100-
• E-journals:25000 (2001: 15000, 2002:19000 )– Chinese: 9000 – English: 16000
• E-books: 110000+ – 北大方正( Founder’s ) : 6000– 书生之家( Bookworm’s home ) : 100000– NetLibrary: on trial, 4000 – Chinese Ancient and Rare Bks:
• 四库 : 1500 ti, 3000cp• 四部 : 500 ti• 二十五史 : 25 ti
3. Local Digital Collections Development3.1 Goals:
• Preserving library materials
• Developing born-digital data assets
• Digging out/preserving local information resources
• Cooperating with others to develop and share digital collections
3.2 Major Digital Assets: • PKU Scholars:
– Data of 231 PKU professors, 97 with sizable materials– Images: 2400 pieces, master/derivative/browse– Articles : 53– Catalog records : 480– Audio/video materials : 8 records
• Videos Online:– Chinese Culture and Tradition Lectures: 100 pieces– PKU Lectures: 23 pieces– Century Lecture Hall-TV programs (authorized): 82 pieces
• PKU E-thesis– Metadata: 19456 (17317 online) records
– Full text: • Born digital: 3652 (2608 online, 1044 not authorized) records
• Scanned: 4037, 400946 pages (300 dpi, not authorized)
• Hot Topics – 44 topics, common topics and topics with special focus
on PKU
– 7153 records
Rare Materials:
• Ancient and Rare Books (古籍)– 1681copies , 536116 pages
• Rubbings (拓片)– 3248 pieces
• Ancient Maps (舆图)– 453 boxes (函), 6413 pieces (幅)
E-Reserves:• CALIS project• Planned 30000 titles - 50000 titles• 3000 titles digitized in PKUL• Metadata & Local Course/teacher info.• Founder’s DESI software
– Metadata edit– Full text (ceb format)
• Copyright: Founder Co. <=> Publishers
Million Books Project• China-US Cooperation Project• Totally 1 million books to digitize• No. of titles done in PKUL:
– English: 59 copies , 17000 pgs– Chinese Ancient books: scanned 780 copies, planned
1567
• Most 600 dpi, a few 300 dpi• PS7000 Scanner and AV/A3 Scanner: 1000+
pages/day/scanner
4.Current Digitization Projects and Production Lines4.1 Digitization Projects on-going:• Ancient Materials • E-Reserves• E-Thesis• Million Books
• Old Periodicals in the future
4.2 Digitization Production Lines:
• Two production lines, 11 persons hired• Line One: Phase One Digital Scanning System• Large Images such as:
– Rubbings
– Ancient Books
– Ancient Maps
– 1 person
• Line Two: Original Bks and Pes– one million
– e-reserves
– printed thesis
5. Organization & Integration of Digital Collection & Information5.1 Access to Rare Materials
– Peking University Ancient and Rare Materials Database
Contents :– Ancient Books:
• 65000 metadata records• A few images (11 pieces zhentu)
– Rubbings:• 21000 + metadata records (9000 + online, others waiting for
verification)• 3000 + images
– Ancient Maps (Yutu): Done end of this semester: – metadata editor– links to 6413 images
• Metadata Editor :– For Ancient Bk, Rubbing and Yutu Separately now– “Union” metadata editor planned
• OPAC :– Searching: Simple, Advanced, Union Searching for both Anct. Bk & Rub
bings– Indexing: by special features of Ancient BKs and Rubbing– Browsing:
• Different User Access Levels: – Guest: simple metadata, small image – Reading Room User: detailed metadata, large image– Librarian: – Super:
• GIS application :– applied only for rubbing now– has separate access, but with dual links from an
d to the OPAC– Create 11 maps dated from dynasty such as Wu
zhou, Ming, Yuan and the current time– Data: harvest from the metadata editor
GIS Interface
Select Map and Area
Results
5.2 Integrated Access to Commercial Databases and other online data sets– Single Search Platform (beta stage)
• 47 Databases Configured– XML, OLAP, OAI, Z39.50, etc.
– opac, licensed online reference databases and publications and web resources
• Select and Search 20 databases the same time – Chinese, English separated
– Single database results display
– Single database authentication
• Mys personalized services
The End