[ Tags: media, memo ]

With the exciting convergence of content, technology, and global collaboration in this digital era, there are unprecedented potentials as well as challenges for developing digital libraries of all kinds. This talk will discuss how a world digital library and gateway, Global Memory Net (supported by the National Science Foundation’s International Digital Library Program) has managed to use the Web as a platform to develop its application using the in-house developed i-M-C-S system (Integrated Multimedia Content Retrieval System) to integrate seamlessly all types of multimedia resources. In describing the potentials of this digital age, the speaker will elaborate on the concept of a global digital library which she advocated as early as in 1993, and will address the multiple challenges of such a world digital library, such as retrieval, multi-format and multi-type contents development, multilingual, service provision and not publishing, etc… Although the current focus of Global Memory Net is culture, history and heritage, but its system is subject insensitive, and can be used instantly to develop applications in any other fields. Collaboration with subject specialists is one the keys to the success of such type of development.