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Creating a Digital Ark for a Nation and Its Civilization a Report on the First Seven Years of an Innovative Decade Long Effort THE COOK REPORT ON INTERNET PROTOCOL JULY 2008 Creating a Digital Ark for a Nation and its Civilization A Report on the First Seven Years of an Innovative Decade Long Effort The Origins of a fields of knowledge all cross- Volume XVI, No. 4 linked with Dublin Core me- July 2008 Digital Ark ISSN 1071 - 6327 tadata. The project seemed Almost three years ago Si- to be a breath taking experi- zation was extremely compel- mon Lin invited me to intro- ment in the building a hyper ling. duce him as part of a brief linked digital universe de- signed to go far beyond any- talk to the opening session of When I met Simon and the Pacific Neighborhood thing that Google had yet at- James in Honolulu in Novem- Consortium Digital Library tempted to that point. ber of 2005, I decided that I meeting in Honolulu. In wanted to explore on my own preparation Simon sent me I fell in love with the “old is and document the entire pro- new” theme in commercials an envelope of materials in- ject. It took about two years cluding a few wonderfully developed for the National and a trip in August of 2007 done CD-ROMs about the Palace Museum, especially to Xi’an China to snag Simon Taiwan National Digital Ar- the one with the revolving Lin again and convince him to chive Project. What he sent fishbowl vase that merged bring me to Taipei. I spent into the face of the pussycat’s captured my imagination as it two weeks there in April of described one of the first and dream of chasing the goldfish 2008 and this July 2008 issue still most extensive digital and ended with the words is my report on what I’ve archive projects in the world. “National Palace Museum - learned. where your dreams come true.” The artistic ability of Under the leadership of Aca- On the Inside demia Sinica, the Taiwanese James Lin of the museum government was undertaking staff to portray Asian aes- Taiwan’s NDAP thetics and modern technol- to digitize all of Taiwan’s cul- Contents p. 56 ture -- art history, artifacts, ogy combined in a story line than that blends the modern botany, - zoology, geology Please read Explanatory Note page 55 everything in its entire civili- digital world into the poetry zation and physical environ- of ancient Chinese civili- ment -- some 17 different © 2008 COOK NETWORK CONSULTANTS 431 GREENWAY AVE. EWING, NJ 08618-2711 USA PAGE 1 THE COOK REPORT ON INTERNET PROTOCOL JULY 2008 Invited by Kilnam Chon to NDAP was founded by a col- technology in Taiwan. Un- give a talk at the August laboration between Academia fortunately there are a series 2007 Xi’an Digital Archive Sinica, National Taiwan Uni- of related questions that meeting, I displayed a naive versity and the National Sci- need well-thought-out an- pro-Internet point of view as ence Council where it was de- swers to enable a unified I asked the archivists to think cided to digitize fields of strategy to create the foun- about the most effective way knowledge in parallel and to dation for the sustainability to simply open up and place do so with cross linked meta- needed for the success of the without prior expectations data, encompassing the project. the best representations of rather stunning idea that one their civilization’s on the should be able to hop from The players are facing a set Internet - material – free for the artistic depiction of birds of vexing questions. They the taking in which people decorating the robes of a Con- include the need to iron out from other countries could fucian scholar into a database conflicting fields of authority, immerse themselves. I had of birds in their natural envi- the need to obtain continued no idea of the walls inside the ronment in – a kind of meta- government funding, and an museum world and knew physical stretching of the uncertainty about how to nothing of the protective na- techniques of using the mind monetize the results. There ture -- indeed, of the closed assisted by technology to is also a generally typical nature -- of much of the cul- transcend the traditional problem that confronts all of ture of the museum world. boundaries of knowledge. those of us who love technol- ogy. When we have a new I had hoped that the project This was something with tre- toy or a new project, we might somehow magically mendous allure and some- must ask what we want it convert itself in a wonderfully thing where, when it was for? What will we do with it? cross-linked Pantopticon of all added to the lavish expendi- We will digitize everything. aspects of Taiwanese culture ture of artistic talent on behalf Then what? Do we under- opening high resolution image of the National Palace Mu- stand the full implications of is of amazing cards to all the seum, I fully expected to see where we are trying to go? Is visitors on the Internet with a the storehouse of treasures to it possible to even begin to Photosynth-like virtual reality -- figuratively speaking -- be understand them until you capabilities for those not quite walking on water when I ar- set out on a journey? able to get on the airplane rived at the museum. Instead and the visit in person. it was something of a disap- Coordinating everything into pointment to see a walled an overarching vision and My hopes turned out to be a garden pre-Internet vision one that encompasses an en- bit premature and what I that said “leave your cameras tire civilization, both physical have found in Taipei is a at home.” and aesthetic, is biting off a storehouse of projects of un- very large problem on which imagined complexity and Why Was it Done? to chew. It would require challenges. One that is well Just Because it Could something much longer than done but still struggling to Be? a single COOK Report to de- find decisive direction on scribe in any significant detail which to build a permanent To an outsider NDAP certainly a project as broad and com- foundation by the end of the seems to be a good fit for a plex as this and one that is project’s second five years in symbiotic relationship of gov- also truly groundbreaking by 2011. ernment investment in new © 2008 COOK NETWORK CONSULTANTS 431 GREENWAY AVE. EWING, NJ 08618-2711 USA PAGE 2 THE COOK REPORT ON INTERNET PROTOCOL JULY 2008 virtue of its cross disciplinary end goal for the construction www.ndap.org.tw/96AnnualE scope. of a digital ark for an entire xhibition/InternationalConfer civilization. ence/tuesday.php One of the What I have found is a vast crucial goals of TELDAP is to project with many loose ends This is no easy task. Acade- develop a “public culture a n d m a n y i m p r e s s i v e mia Sinica and the Taiwanese network” in order enable Tai- achievements. It is one that, government leadership are to wan’s citizens and Manadrin in part, was begun because be applauded for attempting speaking users of the internet the technology was there that it. to share information about made it possible to attempt. Taiwan’s historical, cultural So why not do it? Perhaps On a concluding note: I and natural heritage. Web- the greatest weakness is asked Dr Chiu for his com- sites related to this effort are about there is no overall an- ments on my findings and CyberIsland swer to the question of what especially with regard to the http://cyberisland.ndap.org.t next? Indeed one that might the questions I raised above. w/ and say how could there be such He replied with a copy of the http://teldap.tw/Program/pro an answer because, if there presentation that he gave on gram.php both in Mandarin. were, it would imply a single March 18 2008: “Initiating a all-knowing, all-seeing vision Public Culture Network in for how to meld financial in- Taiwan: Next Step for Taiwan vestment, technology capa- Digital Archives Expansion bility, human aesthetics, and Project, TELDAP” the ability to define a single Taiwanʼs newly elected President Ma Ying-jeou appears at a performance of the Taiwan National Opera Company at the Baoan Temple on April 13th. Note that all photographs except for those on page 39 and the bottom of page 45 were taken by Gordon Cook, Editor and Publisher of the COOK Report on Internet Protocol. © 2008 COOK NETWORK CONSULTANTS 431 GREENWAY AVE. EWING, NJ 08618-2711 USA PAGE 3 THE COOK REPORT ON INTERNET PROTOCOL JULY 2008 National Digital Archive Program - the Policy and Technology Rationale Dr. Simon Lin Examines the Purpose and Context Editor’s Introduction: Dr. 7, 2008 With this capability it was Simon Lin was the Director of possible to digitize enter- Academia Sinica Computing The Origins of the tainment as well as content. Centre from 1990 until 2005. However, we looked at enter- He built the Taipei GigaPoP NDAP Program tainment as something that dark-fibre infrastructure and was not our concern as it was COOK Report: Would you led the international network- much more short lived and please begin by explaining ing for Taiwan. He piloted the likely would have less impact the background out of which Digital Library/ Museum pro- on the quality of society than the National Digital Archive jects in Academia and par- would the more unique his- Project (NDAP) grew.
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