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This
division is responsible for investigation, creation, and organization of the
digital archives contents and makes contacts with participating institutions.
There is a main of all work items. In addition, this division has further set up
4 sub-projects according to its work properties since 2005: Sub-project 1:
Digitally Archived Information- Investigation, Creation, and Research and
Development. It investigates, studies, and creates digital content, and assists
in promoting digital archiving works; sub-project 2: Presentation and Promotion
of the Digital Archives. It promotes project outcomes and advances them to the
international level; sub-project 3: Union Catalog System Establishment Project.
It presides over the creation of a portal for users to search and browse the
Union Catalog of each project; sub-project 4; Non-Solicited Projects for Content
Development Division in NDAP. It assists the National Science Council（NSC）in
calling for non-solicited projects, and carries out work concerning assistance,
supervision, and evaluation.
This
division also accommodates the Content-Development Committee that presides over
the organization of mid- and long- term digitalization progress, regulates
standards and rules for digital contents, and draws up a development map for the
digital archives contents. Besides the committee, there are 16 thematic groups
under this division (Zoology, Botany, Geology, Anthropology, Archives,
Artifacts. Calligraphy and Painting, Maps and Bronze Rubbings, Rare Books,
Archaeology, Journalism and Mass Media, Linguistics, Chinese Classics Full-text
Database, Video, and Architecture）, each of which recommends a scholar or
a specialist as its convener who, on an regular basis, calls for coordination
and discussion meetings to set up working processes and rules for
digitalization, as well as to establish integration, function division, and
coordination mechanisms.
There
will have five demonstrations for ICDAT, involved “Zoology”, “Botany”,
“Archives”, “Anthropology” and “Rare Books”, all present rich
results of the thematic groups. Inside shows the variety and appropriate way of
digitization for the digitized items from various organizations. In the mean
time also focus on the process of building database under the same thematic
group.
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