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Dr. Chen delivered her invited speech, entitled "Digital Libraries and Universal Access in the 21st Century: Realities and Potential for US-China Collaboration," at the 3rd China-US Library Conference, Shanghai on March 23, 2005. See Archive for a copy of her speech. |
03/23/2005 |
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Chen will be a feature speaker at The 3rd China-US Library Conference, Shanghai, China, March 22-25, 2005. She will speak on "Digital Libraries and Universal Access in the 21st Century: Realities and Potential for US China Collaboration." |
03/01/2005 |
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Tsurumi University's Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies, Yokohama, Japan is one of Global Memory Net's latest collaborators. The University's selected collection of the rare Waka poems and tales and selected ancient western maps of Japan becomes one of the latest prototype collections of Global Memory Net. While using our technology and metadata structure, Prof. Takashi Nagatsuka led the team at Tsurumi University in providing the descriptions of this collection in English and Chinese, as well as the sound files. |
03/01/2005 |
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GMNet team welcome Prof. Takashi Nagatsuka of the Tsurumi University, Kawasaki, Japan. During his short visit, Prof. Nagatsuka discusses the details related to the collaborative activity with Global Memory Net in contributing the valuable and unique waka poems and ancient map collections of the university. |
02/12/2005 |
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Professor Chen will deliver keynote speech at the 7th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL 2004), Shanghai, China, December 13-17, 2004. She will speak on "Global Memory Net: New Collaboration, New Activities and New Potentials." |
12/01/2004 |
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Global Memory Net's latest project is supported by a NSF/IDLP grant entitled International Collaboration to Advance Useer-oriented Technologies for Managing and Distributing Images in Digital Libraries. The two-year grant will enable the PI, Prof. Ching-chih Chen of Simmons College, to collaborate closely with the co-PIs, Prof. James Z. Wang of the Pennsylvania State University and Prof. Jian-bo Shi of the University of Pennsylvania, as well as collaborator in Taiwan, Prof. V. W. Soo of the National Taiwan University. While Prof. Chen's group will continue to explore the image collection and metadata development, Prof. Wang's team will concentrate on content-based image retrieval and progressive displaying of copyright-protected images R&D, Prof. Shi's team will focus on object-specific image retrieval activities, and Prof. Soo's team will continue its text- and ontology-based retrieval of images. |
09/01/2004 |
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The exciting and rare Naxi Manuscripts has become available through the Global Memory Net. It is a collaborative project between Dr. Hwa-wei Lee, Head of the Asian Division of the US Library of Congress (LC) and Prof. Ching-chih Chen of Simmons College, Boston. This Naxi collection is the largest one outside of China and is unrivaled in quality, quantity, and variety among Naxi collections in Europe, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan. The Library of Congress collection consists of 3,342 Naxi manuscripts features ceremonial writings of the Naxi people of Yunnan Province, China. Some of the most illustrative images are included in Global Memory Net. |
06/18/2004 |
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Chen to be a Keynote Speaker at Libraries in the Digital Age, Dubrovnik and Mljet Island, Croatia, May 25-29, 2004. She will speak on "The Promise of International Digital Library Collaboration for Innovative Use of Invaluable Resources." |
05/15/2004 |
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Prof. Piero Baglioni of the Center for Colloid and Interface Science (CSGI) of the University of Florence is collaborating with Prof. Ching-chih Chen on Project Restore. They are developing a multimedia digital library on the world's treasured cultural and heritage works of art degraded over time or by fire, water, etc., but restored by the CSGI's nanoparticle technology. Prof. Baglioni is the world's leading scientist on this method. His multimedia collection on the pre- and post-restoration of these art objects will be of great value to researchers, educators, conservation specialists as well as students all over the world. See Project Restore for more information. |
04/30/2004 |
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February 25, 2004, During the ICDL 2004 (International Conference on Digital Libraries) Meeting, Meeting with Honorable President Abdul Kalam of India. |
02/25/2004 |
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Antonuccio, Irene "Collaborzione tra la Fondazione Bonino-Pulejo e la National Science Foundation: Arte e cultura su Internet: La professoressa Chen ha illustrato il progetto: Global Memory Net," Gazzetta del Sud, Messina, Italy, December 20, 2003 p. 16. |
12/20/2003 |
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Ching-chih Chen's Global Memory Net on Regional Television (RTP), Messina, Italy, December 18, 2003.
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12/18/2003 |
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"Global Memory Net," was presented at Fondazione Bonino-Pulejo in Messina, Italy, December 18, 2003, and followed by local TV interview. |
12/18/2003 |
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"Message from the Chair: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East," AAMES Newsletter: A biannual publicatoin of the Asian, African, and Middle Eastern Section of ACRL/ALA 1 (1): 1-3 (November 2003). |
11/01/2003 |
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