News Archive

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World Heritage Memory Net Is Coming Soon! The World Heritage Memory Net was featured at the "News and Events" of UNESCO's World Heritage Center. In November 2006, the World Heritage Center signed a multi-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, to establish the first World Heritage Digital Center (WHDC) under the leadership of Dr. Ching-chih Chen. "The World Heritage Center considers this an important project with great potential to enhance the humanities for universal access and enrichment through the use of emerging technologies," commented Francesco Bandarin, Director of the Centrer. It will greatly promote a better knowledge of World Heritage properties and increase awareness of everyone's duty to protect them. Click for English Version or French Version of the news. See also a part of the May UNESCO Calendar. The World Heritage Memory Net is being developed, and a small part of it can currently be seen as a part of Global Memory Net.	12/20/2007
Chen to Keynote in Riga in November.  Twelve years after her NIT Conference in Riga in 1995, Prof. Chen will return to Riga, Latvia and deliver a keynote speech on November 19, 2007 at the Digital Libraries for Learning Conference, Riga, Latvia (organized by the National Library of Latvia.) Her talk will be “How Digital Libraries Can Bring the World’s Treasures and Heritage to the End-Useers Instantly!”	11/10/2007
Chen to Speak at the  ICUDL Meeting in Pittsburgh.  On November 4, 2007, Prof. Chen will deliver an invited speech at The 3rd International Conference on Universal Digital Library, Pittsburgh.  She will speak on “From Global Memory Net to World Heritage Memory Net: New Partnership with UNESCO World Heritage Center.”	11/01/2007
Chen Moves to Africa in August.  Prof. Chen will give three papers at three major Divisional Meetings of the Art Libraries Division, the Resource Sharing and ILL Division and the Government Libraries Division at the the 73rd Annual Meeting of the International Federation of Library Institutions (IFLA 73) in Durban, South Africa on August 20, 2007.  Then, as special guest, she will be the sole invited key speaker at the two-day Leadership Workshop in Mbabane, Swaziland on August 27-28, 2007, jointly organized by the American Embassies of South African and Swaziland.	08/09/2007
Chen to Speak in Taiwan Again.   Prof. Chen will deliver an invited speech at the 2007 International Conference of National Digital Archives Program (NDAP): Sustainability and Management of Digital Archives in the Time of Global Collaboration, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23, 2007.  She will speak on “International Collaborative Activities and Experience of Global Memory Net and World Heritage Memorial Net.”	07/09/2007
Chen Moves Her Activities to Mexico in June.  Prof. Chen will delivered invited speeches at the Humanities School, University of Saint Luis Potosi, Mexico, June 25, 2007, and at the the Humanities Council, Saint Luis Potosi, Mexico, June 29, 2007.  Then she will  be visiting two World Heritage Sites near Saint Luis Potosi -- Sierra Gorda as guest of the three majors and heritage leaders there as well as Gerataro as guest of the Ministry of Culture of Gerataro.	06/09/2007
The UNESCO's World Heritage Center featured World Heritage Memory Net at its News and Events on May 3, 2007. In November 2006, the World Heritage Center signed a multi-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, to establish the first World Heritage Digital Center (WHDC) under the leadership of Dr. Ching-chih Chen. "The World Heritage Center considers this an important project with great potential to enhance the humanities for universal access and enrichment through the use of emerging technologies," commented Francesco Bandarin, Director of the Centrer. It will greatly promote a better knowledge of World Heritage properties and increase awareness of everyone's duty to protect them. Click for English Version or French Version of the news.	05/05/2007
Professor Chen will present two invited talks on Global Memory Net and World Heritage Memory Net at the National Taiwan University on May 7, 2007, and National Tsinghua University on May 9, 2007.  She will also visit the Academia Sinica on May 8, 2007, and discuss collaborative Taiwan Memory with the National Central Library on May 10, 2007.	05/04/2007
Dr. Chen will deliver her keynote lecture to the faculty group interested specifically in Middle Eastern and Asian Studies, organized by the National Institute of Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) in Chcago on April 27, 2007.  Prof. Chen will articulate the potentials of Global Memory Net as invaluable digital media resources for teaching global area studies.	04/27/2007
Global Memory Net was featured by Prof. Chen at an invited speech at the 2007 International Conference of National Digital Archives Program (NDAP): "Sustainability and Management of Digital Archives in the Time of Global Collaboration, Taipei, Taiwan, March 23, 2007.	04/22/2007
Invited Speeches for Chen from March to May.  Prof. Chen will deliver invited speeches related to Global Memory Net at the 2007 International Conference of National Digital Archives Program (NDAP): Sustainability and Management of Digital Archives in the Time of Global Collaboration, Taipei, Taiwan, March 23, 2007; at the Annual Meeting on "Teaching with Media Resources in Middle Eastern and Asian Studies" of Al-Musharaka, organized by National Institute of Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE), Lake Forest College, Chicago, IL, April 27, 2007, and at the National Taiwan University and National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan, May 7-9, 2007.	03/09/2007
Prof. Chen delivered an invited talk on Global Memory Net at the Digital Library for the Maghred Workshop, Rabat, Morocco, January 26, 2007. The Meeting was organized by the Fulbright Academy of Science and Technology. Dr. Chen also shared with the participants about the potentials of World Heritage Digital Library.	01/26/2007
Chen to Keynote at Digital Library in Morocco.  Prof. Chen will deliver a keynote speech entitled "Challenges for Developing A Global Digital Library and Gateway: From Global Memory Net to World Heritage Digital Library," at he Digital Library for the Maghred Workshop, Rabat, Morocco, January 25-27, 2007.	01/09/2007
Global Memory Net was featured at the keynote delivered by Prof. Chen at the 7th Annual Hong Kong Innovative Users Group Meeting at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, December 11, 2006.	12/11/2006
Chen to Keynote in Hong Kong.  Prof. Chen will deliver a keynote speech at the 7th Annual Hong Kong Innovative Users Group Meeting in Hong Kong on December 11, 2006. Her speech will be "Advancing Digital Collaboration: The Case of Global Memory Net."	12/01/2006
At the first US-China Workshop in Neutron Scattering Science and Technology, Beijing, Prof. Chen presented a banquet speech on Global Memory Net on November 14, 2006 to a crowded Chinese and international participants.	11/14/2006
Prof. Chen was the keynote speaker presenting the Global Memory Net at the Russian Conference on Digital Libraries (RCDL), Suzdal, Russia, October 17, 2006. Global Memory Net was also featured in another invited speech presented by Chen's Italian collaborators from University of Florence on how nanoscience is used to conserve cultural heritage as demonstrated in the collection of Project Restore in GMNet.	10/17/2006
Chen to Keynote at RCDL in Suzdal, Russia.  Prof. Chen will deliver a keynote speech at the Russian Conference on Digital Libraries (RCDL), Suzdal, Russia, October 17, 2006. She will use Global Memory Net as a case to speak on "The Reality of Global Digital Library for Universal Access."  She will also deliver a joint paper with her Italian collaborators on "Nanoscience for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage and the Emergence of a Powerful Digital Image Collection."	10/09/2006
Dr. Chen co-chairs with Jose Borbinha the Panel on Sustained Digital Libraries for Universal Use at the European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL), Alicante, Spain on September 20, 2006	09/20/2006
Dr. Chen was the Opening Speaker at the XI International Seminar Forum UNESCO, University and Heritage: Documentation for Conservation and Development, New Strategies for the Future, Florence, Italy on September 11, 2006. She presented Global Memory Net, and advocated how the its i-M-C-S system can provide an effective documentation tools for managing the cultural heritage for conservation of archaeology, historical center, museums and archives. Her talk was translated to French, Italian, and Spanish in addition to English.	09/11/2006