The Tiger Project: Korea Culture and Heritage DL

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The Tiger Project Korea Culture and Heritage DL

• 2000. 8. 10
• Kim, Sung Hyuk
• Division of Information Science
• Sookmyung Womens University,
• Seoul, Korea
• ksh_at_sookmyung.ac.kr

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Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Project Scope
• 3. Research Agenda
• 4. Collaboration
• 5. Conclusion

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1. Introduction

• Current Korean society is facing several problems
  regarding DL as follows
• Creation of an island of digitized information
  for culture and heritage documents
• Crisis of humanity studies
• No initiative government department
• No research-oriented DL
• Supposition of DL as a digitization of printed
  document and electronic libraries

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• Necessity of DL for Korean Culture and Heritage
• Preservation of Korean history documents in
  digital form
• Providing opportunities for Korean peoples to
  access the Korean classics regardless of the time
  and places
• Promotion of the study for humanities through DL
  technologies

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• Development of the Korean information industry
  through DL construction
• Introducing and accessing of the Korean classics
  to and around the world
• Sharing cross-cultural heritage

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2. Project Scope

• Project title
• Tiger Project Korean Culture and Heritage DL
• Contents coverage Korean ancient documents and
  their Korean and English translations, old and
  modern maps, historical vestiges, relics, art
  materials, ancient building and architectures,
  etc.

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• Project members and organizations
• Professors of information science, computer
  science, Korean history, Korean literature and
  language, librarians, curators
• University libraries, national museums, archive
• Project purpose
• Providing professional research documents for
  researchers around the world
• Providing educational and lecture materials to
  K-12 and universities

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• Providing seamless connection of related
  materials
• Providing general knowledge of Korean ancient
  history and culture around the world
• Providing various access points to materials
• Promoting research of humanity studies

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3. Research Agenda

• Text encoding of Korean ancient document TEI,
  XML, document structuring techniques
• Digitizing technology 3D and image capture
  techniques, digital camera, over sized materials
• 3D animation and rendering technology Browser
  development, VRML techniques

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• Integrating technology of geo-spatial data and
  documents mapping techniques between old and
  modern map, automatic linkage methods
• Digital preservation migration, emulation,
  refreshing techniques
• Summarization and abstraction statistics or
  corpse-based techniques, using structured document

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• Cross language information retrieval bilingual
  and parallel corpus, dictionaries, and
  terminology
• Interface design visualization, cognitive and
  intelligent interface
• Classification and cataloging automatic
  classification(documents, relics, manuscript),
  metadata(TEI header, Dublin core)

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• Restoring technology of damaged and spoiled
  materials documents, manuscript, relics
• Content development for various user levels
  K-12, researchers and scholars, foreigners,
  ordinary persons

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4. Collaboration

• 5 reasons why we need collaboration for mutual
  benefits in DL
• The first reason
• Our situation for DL construction beginning
  stage in terms of DL technologies
• DL for Korean culture and heritage should be
  content and technology based DL
• Need experiences, knowledge and technologies to
  advance for the future DL

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• The second reason
• Current DL networked information repositories
  within the specific country
• Future DL networked information repositories
  around the world
• This means the future DL has to have contents of
  the East and West
• The third reason
• US is not familiar with Korean language, culture
  and heritage
• US DL need Korean contents

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• This means DL technologies and contents related
  to Korea and Korean should be developed by
  collaboration
• The fourth reason
• Current world facing cross cultural, cross
  lingual, cross religion, and multi disciplinary
  issues
• Future world understanding and solving the above
  issues through DL
• This means DL is a road to the harmony of
  information sharing around the world

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• The fifth reason
• Korea has many DL scholars who studied in the
  State and have had relation with many US scholars
• This means we have no barriers for DL research
  collaboration between two countries
• Collaboration Areas for the US partner
  technologies and contents development for Korean
  Culture and Heritage DL

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5. Conclusion

• Phase 1 of the Tiger Project
• testbed construction
• technology development with the US partner
• document structuring
• 3D animation and rendering
• Browser
• automatic linkage of related materials
• content development for Korean and English for
  testbed
• Demonstration of Korean Culture and Heritage DL

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• Phase 2 of the Tiger Project
• Operational DL construction
• Technology development with the US partner
• bilingual and parallel corpus development
• intelligent interface
• Cross information retrieval between Korean and
  English
• contents expansion
• dictionaries and terminology's database
• DL operation

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• Future DL can not be constructed by a specific
  country, but will be constructed by collaboration
  with all around world especially by both the East
  and West
• This is the right time for collaboration on DL
  research between Korea and the US

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• Korea and US government should support for the
  future DL construction
• DL researchers of both countries should share
  and collaborate experiences, knowledge and
  contents for the future DL