This morning's keynote at DC-2007 in Singapore was delivered by Zhang Xiaoxing, Deputy Director of the National Cultural Information Resource Center in China. Dr. Zhang described a national cultural information resources sharing project started in 2002 and funded by the Chinese Government. According to Dr. Zhang, this system is intended to support multi-technology distribution of information to grass-roots centers, especially farmers and rural citizens who would have little access to such information otherwise.
The data span many formats and content areas including a variety of cultural domains, agricultural science and technology, and laws and regulations. The system is organized in tiers, beginning with a root national center, three regional centers, 33 provincial centers, and more than 8,000 local centers.
DC is the core metadata standard, and has been further elaborated into application profiles to support the varieties of content made available. OAI and PMH protocols are used to facilitate sharing of data among the grass-roots centers. And there is lots of it to share... currently some 58 terabytes.
Dublin Core mavens would find Dr. Zhang's slides very familiar indeed, recapping ideas and principles argued and agreed over more than a decade of experimentation and wrangling (some of his screen shots of application profiles might yet provoke discussion among the architecture crowd). It is a genuine pleasure to see these efforts (and even some of the problems) echoed in a national effort such as this, with repercussions that can be expected to ramify widely in the countryside of Chinese society and culture, validating an awful lot of jetlag on the part of many people over the years. I wish our colleagues in China all success with this project.-----Downtown Shanghai, DC-2004
The data span many formats and content areas including a variety of cultural domains, agricultural science and technology, and laws and regulations. The system is organized in tiers, beginning with a root national center, three regional centers, 33 provincial centers, and more than 8,000 local centers.
DC is the core metadata standard, and has been further elaborated into application profiles to support the varieties of content made available. OAI and PMH protocols are used to facilitate sharing of data among the grass-roots centers. And there is lots of it to share... currently some 58 terabytes.
Dublin Core mavens would find Dr. Zhang's slides very familiar indeed, recapping ideas and principles argued and agreed over more than a decade of experimentation and wrangling (some of his screen shots of application profiles might yet provoke discussion among the architecture crowd). It is a genuine pleasure to see these efforts (and even some of the problems) echoed in a national effort such as this, with repercussions that can be expected to ramify widely in the countryside of Chinese society and culture, validating an awful lot of jetlag on the part of many people over the years. I wish our colleagues in China all success with this project.-----Downtown Shanghai, DC-2004
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