VEAL

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VEAL the TIGER

• Comments on digital libraries

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Introduction

• What is a digital library?
• Emulating the card catalog
• Faster and cheaper
• Evolving
• What does the future hold?
• Emulating the mind
• Friendlier and wiser
• Resource sharing

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What is a digital library?

• ARL Proceeding 126 Realizing Digital Libraries,
  1995 http//www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/126/index.
  html
• Gary Cleveland, Digital libraries Definitions,
  issues and challenges, 1998 http//www.ifla.org/VI
  /5/op/udtop8/udtop8.htm1
• Digital Library Technologies Trends, Sun
  Microsystems Inc., 2002. http//www.sun.com/edu/li
  braries
• California Digital Library http//www.cdlib.org

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Commercial digital libraries

• netLibrary
• Ebrary
• Questia
• Superstar ???????
• 21media ????
• Eshunet e???

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The traits

• Emulating the card catalog the stacks the
  reference desk the old library
• Text dominance
• Mono-lingual
• Faster cheaper

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An IBM diagram
http//ei.cs.vt.edu/fox/EDMEDIA96/DLIBM.pdf.
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The East Asian breakouts

• Information providers
• CEAL site e-Asia UCB Stone Rubbings CEAL
  directory EAL websites Eastlib etc.
• Services enablers
• RLIN CJK OCLC CJK PAIR askEASL OPACs etc.
• Virtual East Asian Libraries

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Libraries in transition

• 14.4M volumes of books others media
• 11.3M of annual acquisitions budget
• 479 FTE of staff
• 53 locations
• ---CEAL statistics, 2002

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The digital differences

• Fast
• Compact
• Translatable
• Programmable
• Distributed
• Connected

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The new library

• Digital non-digital resources
• Multi-media
• Geographically spread out
• Technologically integrated
• Multi-sensors
• Multi-languages
• Programmable

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Technologically Integrated Group of Enabling
Resources (TIGER)

• Technologically Integrated for efficiency
• Grouped for sharing conservation
• Enabling the creation use of information
• Resources are intellectual and physical
  properties

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Multi-sensors

• Read
• Write
• Tactile
• Speak
• Listen
• Think
• Smell (sniff out the coffee before buying
  online!)
• Taste?

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Multi-languages

• Natural languages
• Machine languages
• Gestures, images and signs
• Sounds
• Tactile
• Smell

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The sound of books

• Silent reading
• Reading in dialects

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Literacy

• Read write
• Machine assisted literacy

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Programmable

• Machine translation
• Reading the future
• Animates reality
• Automated creation

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Translations

• Natural languages
• Machine languages
• Gestures, images and signs
• Sounds
• Tactile
• Smell

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Reading the future

• Anticipation of events
• Projection of trend lines
• Deduction

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Creative environment

• Natural creation
• Machine creation

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Costs

• Retro-con
• The China remedy
• Deep Blue
• Yahoo

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What can a TIGER be?

• Library emulator
• Robotic intellectual
• Artificial life
• Sharing

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Conclusion

• Digital library is not fully defined
• Who are going to define it?
• Quo vadis?

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Thank You!
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Thank You!