Peking University Digital Library Programs

Overview

2003-10-27

Outline

1. General Information

2. Collections

3. Local Digital Collections Development

4. Digitization Projects/Production Lines

5. Access to Digital Collection and Information

1. General Information

1.1 Building– 51000M2– 4000+ Seats– 6.5 Million Copies

1.2 Staffing– 200FTE + 10~20 PTE

1.3 Branches– 11

2. Collections:

2.1 Print Collection: 5 millions copies total– Books: 3 millions copies– Periodicals: 0.38 millions copies– Old Newspapers: dated before 1949

• 11547 Titles, 27650 Copies

– Rare Books:• 16300 Titles, 1.5 millions copies• Unique RB: 11268 Titles, 170000 copies

– Rubbings:• 24000 titles, 56000 pieces

2. 2 Commercial Digital Collections• Databases: 300 （ 2001:260 ， 2002:270 ）

– Chinese ： 120+ English: 170+– Networked: 200+ CD-ROM: 100-

• E-journals:25000 (2001: 15000, 2002:19000 )– Chinese: 9000 – English: 16000

• E-books: 110000+ – 北大方正（ Founder’s ） : 6000– 书生之家（ Bookworm’s home ） : 100000– NetLibrary: on trial, 4000 – Chinese Ancient and Rare Bks:

• 四库 : 1500 ti, 3000cp• 四部 : 500 ti• 二十五史 : 25 ti

3. Local Digital Collections Development3.1 Goals:

• Preserving library materials

• Developing born-digital data assets

• Digging out/preserving local information resources

• Cooperating with others to develop and share digital collections

3.2 Major Digital Assets: • PKU Scholars:

– Data of 231 PKU professors, 97 with sizable materials– Images: 2400 pieces, master/derivative/browse– Articles ： 53– Catalog records ： 480– Audio/video materials ： 8 records

• Videos Online:– Chinese Culture and Tradition Lectures: 100 pieces– PKU Lectures: 23 pieces– Century Lecture Hall-TV programs (authorized): 82 pieces

• PKU E-thesis– Metadata: 19456 (17317 online) records

– Full text: • Born digital: 3652 (2608 online, 1044 not authorized) records

• Scanned: 4037, 400946 pages (300 dpi, not authorized)

• Hot Topics – 44 topics, common topics and topics with special focus

on PKU

– 7153 records

Rare Materials:

• Ancient and Rare Books （古籍）– 1681copies ， 536116 pages

• Rubbings （拓片）– 3248 pieces

• Ancient Maps （舆图）– 453 boxes （函）， 6413 pieces （幅）

E-Reserves:• CALIS project• Planned 30000 titles － 50000 titles• 3000 titles digitized in PKUL• Metadata & Local Course/teacher info.• Founder’s DESI software

– Metadata edit– Full text (ceb format)

• Copyright: Founder Co. <=> Publishers

Million Books Project• China-US Cooperation Project• Totally 1 million books to digitize• No. of titles done in PKUL:

– English: 59 copies ， 17000 pgs– Chinese Ancient books: scanned 780 copies, planned

1567

• Most 600 dpi, a few 300 dpi• PS7000 Scanner and AV/A3 Scanner: 1000+

pages/day/scanner

4.Current Digitization Projects and Production Lines4.1 Digitization Projects on-going:• Ancient Materials • E-Reserves• E-Thesis• Million Books

• Old Periodicals in the future

4.2 Digitization Production Lines:

• Two production lines, 11 persons hired• Line One: Phase One Digital Scanning System• Large Images such as:

– Rubbings

– Ancient Books

– Ancient Maps

– 1 person

• Line Two: Original Bks and Pes– one million

– e-reserves

– printed thesis

5. Organization & Integration of Digital Collection & Information5.1 Access to Rare Materials

– Peking University Ancient and Rare Materials Database

Contents ：– Ancient Books:

• 65000 metadata records• A few images (11 pieces zhentu)

– Rubbings:• 21000 ＋ metadata records (9000 ＋ online, others waiting for

verification)• 3000 ＋ images

– Ancient Maps (Yutu): Done end of this semester: – metadata editor– links to 6413 images

• Metadata Editor ：– For Ancient Bk, Rubbing and Yutu Separately now– “Union” metadata editor planned

• OPAC ：– Searching: Simple, Advanced, Union Searching for both Anct. Bk & Rub

bings– Indexing: by special features of Ancient BKs and Rubbing– Browsing:

• Different User Access Levels: – Guest: simple metadata, small image – Reading Room User: detailed metadata, large image– Librarian: – Super:

• GIS application ：– applied only for rubbing now– has separate access, but with dual links from an

d to the OPAC– Create 11 maps dated from dynasty such as Wu

zhou, Ming, Yuan and the current time– Data: harvest from the metadata editor

GIS Interface

Select Map and Area

Results

5.2 Integrated Access to Commercial Databases and other online data sets– Single Search Platform (beta stage)

• 47 Databases Configured– XML, OLAP, OAI, Z39.50, etc.

– opac, licensed online reference databases and publications and web resources

• Select and Search 20 databases the same time – Chinese, English separated

– Single database results display

– Single database authentication

• Mys personalized services

The End