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| DIGITAL INITIATIVES & TECHNOLOGY | MAY 2013 |
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Digitization of Hán Nôm Handwritten and Woodblock Manuscripts This issue focuses on this year's third and final digitization project using Arcadia funding – that is the digitization of Hán Nôm Handwritten and Woodblock Manuscripts held in the Maurice Durand Collection. Within this fascinating collection, a scholar can find handwritten and woodblock texts in Hán Nôm, a writing method for the Vietnamese language adapted from and incorporating modified Chinese characters in use from the 13th until the 20th century. The Maurice Durand collection contains Hán Nôm texts, which are divided into two groups: Series 1 contains 35 hand sewn woodblock or handwritten brush ink volumes; and Series 2 is made up of 169 bi-lingual parallel-script notebooks handwritten in fountain pen. These cover classical Vietnamese literature and historical texts in Hán Nôm and Quốc Ngữ, the modern Romanized Vietnamese script. Support from the Arcadia grant to the Southeast Asia Collection will provide for the digitization of both series and give patrons open access to the series' distinctive content. Read more... |
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Open Access: what is it? Open Access (OA) can imply, as it originally did, unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles. Increasingly, OA also applies to efforts to provide access to digital or digitized scholarly and research materials, especially when funding from foundations or federal agencies is involved. Authors of scholarly works initially turned to OA in order to increase exposure to their writing. Libraries, funding partners, and governments now look at OA projects as a way to maximize the impact of the work they do and support. There are many related initiatives. The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is an international community focused on providing balanced access to scholarly publications. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) emphasizes "free availability on the public internet" to research materials. Read more... |
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Did you know... ...that Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, or OAI-PMH, is a well established and regularly updated method for searching the Internet for metadata conforming to published OAI standards? Such metadata can be shared globally among respositories for the benefit of researchers. Read more... |
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