Transcript Stanford conference to ULS D-Scholarship

West Meets East:
Digitizing Humanities at University of Pittsburgh
Michael Dabrishus
Haihui Zhang
University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
July 1, 2015
Stanford University
University Library System (ULS) at PITT
*More than 6.8
million volumes
*More than 185,000
journal titles including
e-journals
*Over 1 million ebooks
*More than 700
electronic database
resources
1. A Pilot Project
• Modern China Studies http://digital.library.pitt.edu/e/eal-mcs/
• Year 2002
• In 2003, ULS received a two-year grant (2003-2005) from NEH and
was the only individual institution in the NEH Brittle books and serials
category to receive an award that includes a component to digitize
materials for access.
• 37 titles (approximately 10,500 pages)
2. Digitization of East Asian Special
and Unique Collection
• Two digitized projects of Japanese art collection:
Tsukioka Kogyo: The Art of Noh, 1869-1927
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/k/kogyo/index.html
Barry Rosensteel Japanese Print Collection
http://images.library.pitt.edu/r/rosensteel/contents.html.
2. Digitization of East Asian Special
and Unique Collection (Cont.)
• Szeming Sze Papers
- Dr. Szeming Sze (施思明), Son of Dr. Alfred Sao-ke Sze (施肇基, Zhaoji
Shi)
- a variety of documents relating to the creation of the World Health
Organization (WHO)
- the entire collection of the Szeming Sze Papers was digitized and
opened to the public at
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaididx?c=ascead;cc=ascead;q1=Faculty%20Papers;rgn=main;view=text;did
no=US-PPiU-ua90f141
Sze Szeming Papers (Cont.)
Alfred Sao-ke Sze (1877–1958)
Szeming Sze (1908 – 1998)
Sze Szeming Papers (Cont.)
2. Digitization of East Asian Special
and Unique Collection (Cont.)
• Chinese Land Records
- land deeds, property trade documents, possession draw documents, tax
bills, etc.
- It includes 220 pieces
- span over three hundred years from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) to the
mid-twentieth century
- only online collection of Chinese Land Records with open access status
available on the internet
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaididx?c=ascead&cc=ascead&rgn=main&view=text&didno=US-PPiU-sc201101
Chinese Land Records
3. An Exploratory Pilot Project
• Gao Archive
- Gao Minglu (高名潞)
- Contemporary Chinese Art
- manuscripts, artists’ diaries and correspondences, art groups’
documentations, records of historical events and debates in both
visual image and text, art works, underground publications, exhibit
catalogs, etc.
- A proposed digitizing project of Gao Archive since 2014
Gao and Gao Archive
Gao and Gao Archive
3. An Exploratory Pilot Project (Cont.)
• complex and challenging
- a wide range of materials including printed volumes, visual materials,
manuscripts, audio recordings, images
- scatted throughout China and the U.S.
- legal concerns on ownership
- funding
- collaborative work among library, academic department, center, etc.
campus-wide
- departments and units within the library including library IT, archives,
technical services, preservation, web service, etc.
THANKS
谢谢
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