What 7 Visiting Researchers from 3 Countries have Contributed to Global Memory Net

GSLIS Research Seminar

Simmons CollegeOctober 20, 2005

Background Introduction on Global Memory Net

• A NSF/IDLP Project

• Ending the first 5-year phase

• Great to have the visiting researchers with fantastic background and expertise to help us to push to envelop…

– Challenge us with multilingual requirement– Etc…

• Hard working in integrated environment – our own assistants led by Peishan also work together…

• System wise – we have develop from version 1 to v.2 to v.3 and now in v.4, 4.1, 4.2

• Expansion of contents… to truly “global.”

ShengQiang Zhang left on Sept. 4, 2005

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Developed Linux-PHP-MySQL based Version 2.0 as a baseline system with

dynamic “admin” functions etc..

Metadata format

• Dublin Core compliant• Relational at this point• Accommodating all

types of languages and multimedia formats.

Vietnam Museum of Ethnology

in Hanoi - Vietnam

Present by Linh thituan Nguyen

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Vietnam is a multi-ethnic country, which is composed of 54 ethnic groups

• On November 12, 1997, the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology inaugurated its permanent exhibition and officially opened to the public.

• VME to preserve and present the cultural heritages of ethnic groups.

• VME is scientific research, collection, documentation, conservation, exhibition and preserving the cultural and historic patrimony of the nation’s different ethnic groups

VME - A valuable centre for the exhibition and the

preservation of cultural heritages of the 54 ethnic groups • the Museum has collected 15,000 artifacts, 2,190 slides,

42,000 photographs, 237 audiotapes, 373 videotapes and 25 CD-ROMs.

• It is also a centre for ethnographic research employing many experts on the different ethnic groups.

• People come to the Museum to learn about these ethnic groups, their cultural diversity and the uniqueness of each group and region, as well as traditional values throughout the Vietnamese country

The artifacts of the Museum are not only priceless

antiquities, but many are everyday objects

• The Museum has 54 collections of each individual ethnic group. Functionally classified, there are collections of clothing, jewelry, of agricultural tools, fishing instruments, weapons, household utensils and musical instruments .

• In addition, there are collections of artifacts related to the various religions, beliefs, wedding ceremonies, funeral ceremonies and other social and spiritual activities

VME images collection introduced as a part of GMN

• Images of the 54 Vietnam ethnic groups –metadata in both Vietnamese and English.

• Costume of 54 ethnic group by Vietnamese and English.

• Dao painting by Vietnamese and English.

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Hongxia Zhang, Hainan University

focus on the databases

on the Li Ethnic Minority Group in Hainan of China

related to:The traditional culture of the Li Ethnic Minority Group 410 images

with both the Chinese and English version

Hainan University

• Located in Haikou, the capital city of Hainan province in the south of China, Hainan Island is the second largest island in China

• is the only comprehensive university in this province, also the largest university, comprises 13 colleges

• 10,000 undergraduate students and 5,000 adult students

• Hainan University Library: with the size of 32,000 square meters, 1.2 million volumes of books

Li Ethnic Minority Group• Where is Hainan and the Li ethnic group inhabits?

Li location: in the middle and southern part of Hainan Island, the south of the Tropic of Cancer

Li population: 1.2486 million (by the year 2000)

Li group is the earliest inhabitants of Hainan Island

Li hand-made brocade: costumes and bedcover

• Well-known a thousand years ago• Contributed a great deal to the development of Chinese

cotton spinning and weaving techniques

Li Ethnic Minority Group: tattoo• Unique in China• A long history of 3,000 years• Now is vanishing

Involvement in other GMNet Activities

Such as…

The beginning of Thailand Memory:

HRH Princess Mother and HRH Princess Sirindhorn

• Help to scan images from Thai Library Association and Simmons Archive

• Thai Memory will be a part of Prof. Chen’s keynote speech at ICADL meeting in Bangkok in December 2005.

Involving in working with Japanese mapsprovided by The Library of Congress

• Library of Congress is collaborating with Prof. Chen on several unique collections, one of which is the unique ancient Inoh maps.

• Images and Metadata in Japanese and English are provided by LC.

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Li, HaiyanShanghai Jiao Tong University Library

Chinese musical instuments• CMNet – as one of the three partners in China from the

beginning of CMNet (from 2000- )

SJTU Library - Chinese musical retrieval system • GMNet Images, metadata, multimedia (sound, video etc..)

Chinese musical instruments

WIND:WIND: Dizi, Guanzi, Xiao, Sheng, Suona, XunDizi, Guanzi, Xiao, Sheng, Suona, Xun

PERCUSSION: Drum, Muyu, Luo(gong), Zhong, Qing

BOWED STRING: Banhu, Gaohu, Erhu, Gehu, Jinghu

PLUCKED STRING: Zheng, Yangqin(dulcimer), Liuqin, Pipa, Ruan, Sanxian,Konghou(harp)

Hu-zuo Niao-jia Gu:

Drum of Bird Frame and Tiger Base Percussion Percussion instrumentinstrument

Zeng-hou Yi Bian-zhong:

Collected Bronze Bells from Zenghou Yi’s Tomb

Jia-hu Gu-di: Bone Flute from Jiahu, Henan

Wind Wind

instrumentinstrument

Xun: Clay Vessel Flute or Ocarina.

Xi-chuan Shi Pai-xiao: Stone Panpipes from Xichuan.

Er-hu: Two-string Fiddle

Bowed string Bowed string

instrumentinstrumentBowed string Bowed string

instrumentinstrument

Tang-chuan Zheng-chang Yuan Pipa: Lute of Tang Dynasty.

Plucked string Plucked string

instrumentinstrumentPlucked string Plucked string

instrumentinstrument

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. Vietnam Museum of Ethnology was constructed on December 14, 1987. Under Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences.

Museum is scientific research, collection, documentation, conservation, exhibition and preserving the cultural and historic patrimony of the nation’s different ethnic groups. The museum also serves to guide research, conservation, and technology that are specific to the work of an ethnographic museum.

About us

My Involvement with GMNetNguyen Thanh SonAudio visual Dept

Working in Global Memory Net :

- Digital photos adjustment by PhotoShop- Metadata in English for some of the Vietnam metadata

We want to thank Peishan for her English editing- Sound processing with resulted Flash files for Musical collection - Multimedia video editing by Final Cut Pro, Video Converter, and

Window Movies Maker… Work differs greatly from film making, so has learned a great deal

in working with Prof. Chen in creating digital videos for GMNet.

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Xiaobo Xiao

Xi’an JiaoTong University Library

Xi'an was one of the most important cradles of Chinese civilization. It marked the start of the famous "Silk Road" that linked China with central Asia and the Roman Empire. And it served as the first capital of a unified China and capital of 11 dynasties periodically from the 11th century B.C. to the early 10th century A.D. Xi'an, or Chang'an as it was called in ancient times, is known as the city of "Everlasting Peace." Located between rivers and mountains in the center of the fertile Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi Province, Xi'an--the provincial capital--was a natural place to nurture the nation's civilization.

13 dynasties capital in Xi’an in chinese history.

• Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses

Professor Chen’s core collection with over 4000 images and many videos…

• City Wall

• Banpo Village Remains

• Bell Tower & Drum Tower

• Mausoleum of Emperor Huangdi

• Forest of Stone Steles Museum

• Great Mosque

• Huaqing Hot Springs

• Mt. Huashan

• Shaanxi Provincial History Museum

。。。

Plenty of historic site in Xian

• Image scanning, processing and prepare metadata for relevant images records in both English and Chinese.

• Simplify GMNet’s PHP program code.• Resolve dynamic image watermark in PHP.• Now working on PSU’s SIMPLIcity, responsible for

gathering different data records and preparing for Run in SIMPLIcity.

• Develop the run procedure in Linux shell scripts.• Some More activities to come, such as statistics,

etc… ?

• …try my best to do more things.

Welcome everyone to come Xi’an , China!

Works here

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Boris BadurinaUniversity of Osijek, Croatia

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