Biosketch of Speaker

Jieh Hsiang (項 潔)

Jieh Hsiang is a professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at the National Taiwan University and a research fellow of the Institute of Information Science of the Academia Sinica. He is also the University Librarian of the National Taiwan University. Professor Hsiang received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the National Taiwan University. He is on the editorial board of several journals, and has given over 200 invited talks in over 20 countries. He has also been the invited speaker of over 40 conferences. In late 1996, Professor Hsiang started to organize NTU's Digital Library Team, which includes members from the Departments of Anthropology, Computer Science, Geography, History, Library Science, and the University Library. The main subjects of the digital

library are archives on Taiwanese history and artifacts of the Taiwanese Austronesian. This project was eventually funded by NTU, NSC, the Ministry of Education, and various other government agencies, cultural societies, and private companies,

and has generated a movement in the digitization of historical subjects in Taiwan. This project is also exemplary in multi-discipline collaboration.

Hsueh-hua Chen (陳雪華)

Hsueh-hua Chen is professor of the Department of Library and Information Science at the National Taiwan University. She received the Ed.D. degree in Higher Education and M.Ed. in Educational Media and Librarianship from University of Georgia, and BA in Library Science from the National Taiwan Univ. She is author of more than 40 articles covering digital libraries, metadata, information organization, knowledge management and serves on the editorial board of many library and information science related journals. Currently, Dr. Chen has been heavily involved in fostering digital library and knowledge management research and education in Taiwan, she was a PI of the National Science Council-funded Digital Museum Initiative project (1998-2000) and has continued to receive research grant from NSC for National Digital Archives Program and many research projects.