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

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

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Showcases

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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

Collection Level Description

• More then 100 million items, not easy to search

Fish

Painting

•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-InternationalDataNodeONE, 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)

Local organisms databases (e.g. Fish database of Taiwan)

Local

Institutions, NGOs, heritages, projects and publications, etc.

TNRED (distribution database) 1

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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

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?