Digital Taiwan – Culture & Nature Project Director: Dr. Kwang-Tsao Shao ( 邵廣昭 研究員 ) Project Co-Director: Dr. Cheng-Yun Liu ( 劉錚雲研究員 ) Project assistants: Kun-Chi Lai ( 賴昆祺 ) Alan Jieluen Yang( 楊杰倫 ) Lee-Sea Chen ( 陳麗西 ) Chih-Jen Ko ( 柯智仁 ) Chien-Te Lee ( 李建德 )

Task focus Establish an English portal of “Digital Taiwan – Culture & Nature” to integrate all TELDAP resources Expand international exchanges : To share information, through the portal, with global organizations, e.g. The Culture Mondo Network ( 世界文化入口網 ) and GBIF ( 全球生物多樣性資訊機構 ); TELDAP achievements can be viewed from worldwide websites Integrate non-TELDAP English-language databases established by Taiwan’s various agencies and institutions Culture: Council for Cultural Affairs (www.culture.tw) Nature: NSC, COA, MOI’s National Parks, MEA’s Water Resources Agency, EPA, Ministry of Education, etc. Introduce new techniques and standards from abroad

Establish an English portal of “Digital Taiwan – Culture & Nature” to integrate all TELDAP resources

Expand international exchanges : To share information, through the portal, with global organizations, e.g. The Culture Mondo Network ( 世界文化入口網 ) and GBIF ( 全球生物多樣性資訊機構 ); TELDAP achievements can be viewed from worldwide websites

Integrate non-TELDAP English-language databases established by Taiwan’s various agencies and institutions

Culture: Council for Cultural Affairs (www.culture.tw)

Nature: NSC, COA, MOI’s National Parks, MEA’s Water Resources Agency, EPA, Ministry of Education, etc.

Introduce new techniques and standards from abroad

2nd phase of NDAP: Organization (& function) chart

Showcases 3 1 5 4 2 Collection Level Description ( 資源合集或 主題 ) Facets of Taiwan ( 珍藏 特展 ) Exhibition ( 展場或 展覽 ) A Slice of Wonder ( 精品賞析或 展品 ) Multimedia e.g. Art; Nature e.g. The Calligraphic World of Mi Fu’s Art; Taiwan’s endemic fish e.g. NSC’s NDAP Achievement Exhibition; Academia Sinica’s “Riding the Currents of History – Four Millenniums of Civilization and Technology” e.g. Letter to the Administrator of K'ai-feng ( 知府帖 ) ; Oncorhychus masou formosanus ( 台灣櫻花鉤吻鮭 ) Showcases - Video - Gallery

e.g. Art; Nature

e.g. NSC’s NDAP Achievement Exhibition; Academia Sinica’s “Riding the Currents of History – Four Millenniums of Civilization and Technology”

e.g. Letter to the Administrator of K'ai-feng ( 知府帖 ) ; Oncorhychus masou formosanus ( 台灣櫻花鉤吻鮭 )

Collection Level Description More then 100 million items, not easy to search 16 collections in our portal Fish Painting

More then 100 million items, not easy to search

16 collections in our portal

Facets of Taiwan From NSC From NTU From NPM From digitalarchive.tw Browse by collections Tag cloud

Three ways to link Taiwan biodiversity information to global databases GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) Species 2000, ITIS, BIOS, BOL, EOL, BioNET-International DataNodeONE, etc. Species 2000 AO, ASEANET …… PACINET, PBIF Global organisms databases, GSDs e.g. FishBase, AntBase, AlgaeBase, etc. Digital Taiwan – Culture & Nature (TaiBIF) Global Regional (Asia, Asian Oceania or Pacific) Taiwan TaiBNET (species checklist & experts namelist) TELDAP (1st) (specimen database) TNRED (distribution database) 1 2 3 Local organisms databases (e.g. Fish database of Taiwan) Local Institutions, NGOs, heritages, projects and publications, etc.

http://data.gbif.org/ws/rest/ occurrence / list /? Scientificname=Begonia%20formosana&format=kml Occurrence data - KML GBIF’s global distribution of Begonia Taiwan’s data can be accessed through global databases (I)

Challenge: How to attract visitors Interesting content Regularly updated information Professional looking design; easy-to-search content IT: RSS, Tagging, CMS, Piclens, SEO, etc. Cooperation with other portals Visitors from 74 countries

Interesting content

Regularly updated information

Professional looking design; easy-to-search content

IT: RSS, Tagging, CMS, Piclens, SEO, etc.

Cooperation with other portals

Problems “ Open access data sharing” (e.g. Creative Commons) needs to be advocated Material highly professional and in Chinese, translation pace slow Entry barrier low and duplicability high for digitization work, how to safeguard quality?

“ Open access data sharing” (e.g. Creative Commons) needs to be advocated

Material highly professional and in Chinese, translation pace slow

Entry barrier low and duplicability high for digitization work, how to safeguard quality?