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Challenges for Developing a World Digital Portal: The Case of Global Memory Net
Ching-chih Chen, GSLIS, Simmons College, Boston, MA, USA
Abstract:
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. In the case of Global Memory Net (www.memorynet.org/), its newly developed Interactive Multimedia Content System (tentatively called I-M-C-S) has managed to incorporate many innovative concepts to meet the challenges of a world digital portal. This paper will articulate these challenges, including, for example, some of the following areas:
• Seamless integration of all types of multimedia resources, • Digital images can not only be retrieved in traditional ways by metadata fields, but also by cutting-edge content-based retrieval methods, • Once the desired image(s) is(are) located, associated sound, digital video, textual annotation, as well as expanded bibliographical resources can be obtained by simple clicks of the mouse, • Available resources can by retrieved by collection, but cross-collection (or multi-collection) search should also be possible, • Location or sponsorship of the digital resource collections should be searchable geographically, • Multilingual presentation as well as retrieval should be possible, • While universal access is the goal, the world users should be possible to contribute as well.
In the past year, Global Memory Net has made considerable progress, and this paper will be able to demonstrate in real time these new developments, particularly since 2004.
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