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	2004 APEC Workshop on Resource Sharing in Digital Libraries
	16-19 March 2004 The Howard Plaza Hotel Taipei, Taiwan URL: http://3w.howard-hotels.com.tw/hotel_je/je.asp Sponsored by Institute of Information Sciences, Academia Sinica National Science Council, Taiwan Technology R/D Division, National Digital Archives Program Office, Taiwan URL: http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/APEC04
	Workshop Goal
	Digital library development has great potential for every member economy to transform digital divide into digital opportunity. This workshop program aims to provide a forum for member economies to share their experience in the digital library development and explore ways on cooperation and collaboration of digital libraries. In the workshop Chinese Taipei, the host of the workshop, also plans to share with APEC member economies their experiences of the practices on a national-scale Digital Archives Project.
	Workshop Format
	This four-day interdisciplinary workshop will include invited speeches by internationally recognized experts, oral presentations, and panel discussion sessions. In the first two days, it will offer a series of training courses including tutorials and practice experiences to interested participants who might not have much background in the area of digital libraries/archives. The last two days will be a joint conference meeting with the 2004 International Conference on Digital Archive Technologies (http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ICDAT04), a two-day international conference meeting with an emphasis on more advanced topics. All of the training courses and technical presentations will be focused on topics related to the digital library and archive technologies, especially their applications to resource sharing including, but not limited to the following: Cooperation and collaboration of digital libraries Technologies and tools for advanced interoperable digital library systems Digital library technologies in resource sharing Digital library support for collections of distributed resources New knowledge about archival storage and preservation Experience sharing of best practices in digital library development Applications of digital libraries in education and training environments

	Workshop Venue and Date
	The workshop will be held in the Howard Plaza Hotel Taipei on March 16-19, 2004.
	Workshop Chairman
	Dr. Der-Tsai Lee, Academia Sinica
	Program Chair
	Jan-Ming Ho, Academia Sinica
	Program Co-Chair
	Lee-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica
	Program Committee
	Jun Adachi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Chao-Chen Chen, National Normal University, Taiwan Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Hsueh-Hua Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Keh-Jiann Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Key-Sun Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Jieh Hsiang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Tetsuya Ishikawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Mun-Kew Leong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Gary Geunbae Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea Michael Lyu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong William Mischo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Sung Hyun Myaeng, Information & Communications University, Korea Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore Yen-Jen Oyang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Lim Ee Peng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Von-Wen Soo, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan William E. Underwood, Georgia Tech Research Institute, USA Ian Witten, Waikato University, New Zealand Kam-Fai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Christopher C. Yang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
	Contact Person
	Ms. Andrea Chen Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan Tel: 886-2-27883799 ext. 2204 Fax: 886-2-27824814 E-mail: achen@iis.sinica.edu.tw