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As video and audio are both important media to keep track of
Taiwan history and culture, but lack of organization to integrate all the
resources, and to preserve these important historical records, the
“Content Development Division” established the “Video thematic
group” in 2005, and invited Associate Professor Lee, Daw-Ming (National
Institute of the Arts, Graduate Institute of Art and Technology) as the
convener of the video thematic group.
The digitization of the video-audio data is the main urgent task
for the division, hope through the establishment of video thematic group, we
can help participating units to digitize data such as: Records, CD,
Broadcast, Film, Television, Video tapes, Audio tapes. It’s not just for
preservation, but also for academic research and educational use. The main
assignments of the video thematic group are as below:
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Organize “Digitization Process: Discussion and Training
Conferences” periodically, provide platform for experience exchange.
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Invite rare data owners to join the program for digitization and
to create a variety of the collection.
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Assist the units to establish digitize workflow, and work rules
and technical standards used in creating the digital archives.
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Integrate the needs for metadata and content analysis.
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Invite industry or related organizations to introduce new
technologies of video-audio digitization.
The present organizations involved in the video thematic group
are: Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica “The Digital Archives of
Formosan Aborigines”, Department of English at National Central University
“Digital Archive of Electronic Modern Theater Intermix in Taiwan,
1986-2005(II)”, Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology of NTNU “NTNU
Music 60th Anniversary－Digital Archives Program” and ”A Perfect
Kingdom of Violins - Violin Collection at the Chi-Mei Museum”, NTU
Department Of Physics ”Digital Archive Program of Physics History in
Taiwan”, National College of Physical Education and Sports - Graduate
Institute of Sports Science ”The Chen's and Yang's Style Tai-Chi Martial
Art Digital Archive Project”, The Chung Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies
”The Creation and Usages of a Multimedia Archive: The Research Project of
an Audio Archive of Tibetan Treasures”, The National Chiao Tung University
Library associate with Cloud Gate Dance Foundation ”Cloud Gate Dance
Archives: Digitalization and Preservation” and ”The Native Musician of
Taiwan - Tai-Hsiang Li Digital Archives”. A total of nine projects are
included.
8.1
Digital
Archive of Electronic Theater Intermix in Taiwan, 1986-2005(II)
(Department
of English, National Central University)
Electronic
Theater Intermix in Taiwan (ETI) is a non-profitable on-line database
programmed for modern theater in Taiwan. Until November 2004, the first
project of ETI has collected more than one hundred media works, historical
records and biographies authorized by artists and performing groups since
August 2003. The Online Catalogue preserves and distributes a major
collection of performances of artists/performing groups for the purpose of
education, academic research and cultural conservation.
ETI
offers viewing access and on-line reservation to the public. Please contact
National Central University, Research Center for Theater and Performance
Studies, for office hours and relative details.
Image provided by Digital Archive of Electronic Theater Intermix in
Taiwan, 1986-2005(II)
8.2
NTNU
Music 60th Anniversary－Digital
Archives Program
(The
Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology, National Taiwan Normal University)
The
purpose of this project is to digitalize the major historical documents of
music department of National Taiwan Normal University, which is the oldest
music institution in high education in Taiwan. It is also the first time
for a music department to participate in National digital Archives Program.
The project itself has a significant meaning of traversing the gap between
the traditional and the digital world. In this program, the executive group
will not only digitalize the department’s important documents of the past
60 years, but also constructs a system that use multimedia technology to
handle and store various kinds of digital files. This system has multiple
functions, including compression, files converting, conservation, and
database management of the original files. Bbsides, it also provides
download, browse, and online-listening services.
Image provided by NTNU Music 60th Anniversary－Digital
Archives Program
8.3
A
Perfect Kingdom of Violins－Violin
Collection at the Chi-Mei Museum
(The
Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology, National Taiwan Normal University)
This
project is to digitalize the stringed instruments Chi-Mei Foundation had
collected. It aims to digitize the works of the initial stage of instrument
manufacturing. (These instruments serve as the earliest models of modern
violins.) In this project, they are 12 pieces which were made between 1505,
the year the violin maker Andrew Amati was born and 1656, when Nicolo
Amati’s Grand Pattern appeared. The digitization will focus on some major
manufacturing sites of that time as well as the pedigrees of significant
luthiers, which will be displayed on a website eventually. With professional
academic researches conducted and audiovisual multimedia technology,
developed these antique and precious instruments can be preserved digitally
and be shared with people globally. We hope that it will receive great
attention from connoisseurs of stringed instruments around the world.
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Image provided by A
Perfect Kingdom of Violins－Violin
Collection at the Chi-Mei
Museum
8.4
Digital Archive
Program of Physics History in Taiwan
(Department of Physics, National Taiwan University)
This
project focuses on digitization of the science museum recovered from NTU
Nuclear Physics Laboratory and the construction of the database of the
physics history in Taiwan. This project also integrates the process of
recovery of important instruments such as the accelerator in the Nuclear
Physics Laboratory, the oral history of the physics history in Taiwan and
the collection of the digital image data of valuable instruments in form of
a documentary film, which will be stored in the image archive of the digital
museum of the physics history in Taiwan.
Through
the cooperation of specialists from three domains including experimental
physics, theoretical physics and science history, the project seeks to
reconstruct the frontier spirit of the early local science development and
to demonstrate the pluralistic values of the physics history in Taiwan from
the aspects of physics experiments, science education and human history.
Facilitated by Yuan-Liou publishing company and Ho-Tien image studio, this
project makes digital archived web pages and science-popular videos that the
public is able to appreciate, the early science spirit in Taiwan will be
introduced to people and the effect of the popularization and education of
science can be expected.
Image provided by Digital Archive Program of Physics History
in Taiwan
8.5
The
Creation and Usages of a Multimedia Archive－The
Research Project of an Audio Archive of Tibetan Treasures
(The Chung Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies)
The
Research Project of an Audio Archive of Tibetan Treasures has as its basis a
tape-recorded archive donated to the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies
by Professor Jeffrey Hopkins of the University of Virginia. The Hopkins
Archive consists of over three thousand hours of authentic oral transmission
on many scholarly and cultural aspects of Tibetan Buddhism, including almost
all traditional Buddhist philosophical topics, Tibetan history, Tibetan
medicine, and so forth. Its value cannot be exaggerated for students of
religion, philosophy history, medicine, linguistics, oral traditions,
folklore, political science, ethnology, and cultural anthropology.
Hopkins cassette archive
Hopkins
photo archive
8.6
Cloud
Gate Dance Archives: Digitalization and Preservation
(National Chiao Tung University Library)
This
project aims at creating a digital archive for the dances of Cloud Gate
Dance Theatre of Taiwan, an internationally renowned dance theatre. In the
first year, a total of twenty-one representative dances by three important
choreographers of Cloud Gate, namely LIN Hwai-min, LO Man-fei, and WU
Kuo-chu, are selected. The photographs, flyers, posters, programs, articles,
reviews, and news reports of each of these dances will be digitized. In
addition, the three choreographers and their philosophy in choreography will
be introduced.
Cursive
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Performed
by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
Photoed by Chen-hsiang, Liu
8.7
The
Native Musician of Taiwan－Tai-Hsiang
Li Digital Archives
(National
Chiao Tung University Library)
This
project is to collect the musical compositions of Tai-Hsiang Li. Mr. Li is
very talent in musical interpretation and his works includes bountiful
skills in various musical forms and techniques. He mixed strong Chinese
culture, local elements and new music concepts in the notations, which are
considered as obvious achievements in the music field of Taiwan.
This
year will focus on the digitization of his folk songs. The project intended
to have all the scores in digital forms, reorganized the other related
materials and recorded his efforts in music creation. The purpose is to set
up a complete database to a native musician, which will offer a platform of
further retrieval, researches, and more learning. Especially, the portion
for recording musical creation will give more clues for musical composers.
And the digital scores will pervade the Taiwan music and will have multiple
value-added applications for educational learning.
Image provided by The Native Musician of Taiwan－Tai-Hsiang
Li Digital Archives
8.8
The Chen's and Yang's
Style Tai-Chi Martial Art Digital Archive Project
(Graduate Institute of Sports Science, National College of Physical
Education and Sports)
Tai-Chi
Chung, one of Chinese traditional martial arts, has brought great benefit in
self-defense and health application. The preservation of this culture was
mostly dependent upon the learners' personal understanding and the dictation
from their master. The way it was preserved has made great barriers to
convey. For this reason, this project starts from digitizing the document
and filming these movements. Through documentation analysis and interview
with the experts, we attempt to build the relation between documents and
movement styles. With a motion-capture system and applying real-time 3D
animation techniques, we will build a 3D/VR demonstration platform. Movement
comparison techniques are also used in comprehending the differences between
similar motions. So the observer can easily understand the divergence. This
project is aimed at using digital archives to preserve the cultural
treasure, Tai-Chi martial art, and further enlarge its value in learning.
Image
provided by
The Chen's and Yang's Style Tai-Chi Martial Art
Digital Archive Project
8.9
The
Digital Archives of Formosan Aborigines (DAFA)
(Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica)
The
Digital Archives of Formosan Aborigines (DAFA) aims at digitizing and
archives building of the ethnological collections of Taiwan aborigines at
the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica. DAFA includes 13 different
types of data, such as：images,
artifacts, population, settlements, research bibliography, research tables,
research maps, traditional land contracts, ethnomusical data, field video,
field interview, multimedia publications and Ch’ing documents regarding
Taiwan aborigines from National Palace Museum. DAFA hopes that the digital
archive will both promote related research and provide educational resources
for teachers at the junior high and high schools.
The
Digital Archives of Formosan Aborigines (DAFA) starts at the beginning of
2002 and ends at the end of 2006. During the first two years of 2002 and
2003, DAFA has been put the first priority on the establishment of the
official website, including the database of digital archives, database for
basic references, news and events, website introduction, virtual
communities, related links, virtual office, and etc. Following the rules of
metadata, DAFA has set up 13 cross-referenced databases with sophisticated
consideration of access right as well as management platform. As for the
digital contents, DAFA has been filled up according to the ethnic groups by
year with all 13 different types of digital data together. Interested
parties can visit http://www.aborigines.sinica.edu.tw/ for detailed
information.
Image
provided by The Digital Archives of Formosan Aborigines
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