Technical features in the Portal to CADAL

INTRODUCTION The objective of the China-America Digital Academic Library Project (CADAL) is to provide universal access to one million digital books and multimedia resources for teaching and research, and explore the ways of applying multimedia and virtual reality technologies to digital library. Terabyte volume of multimedia data of various types of modality, such as text, image, video, anima- tion, are available in the CADAL, which is one of the distinct characteristic of CADAL. …     

A sustainable development OCR system in CADAL application

INTRODUCTION China-US Million Books Digital Library Project is a research and development project proposed by Chinese and American scientists, aiming at creating a universally free access digital library containing over one million scanned books, using optical character recognition (OCR) whenever possible to support full text searching (http://www.cadal.cn). It is one of the key projects of the Ministry of Education of China for the Tenth Five Year Plan, and called China-America D…     

Million Book Project vs Google^TM Print

INTRODUCTION Google’s announcement that it intended to digi- tize all the books in several major research libraries was met with mixed reactions. John Wilkin at the University of Michigan declared “This is the day the world changes,” while Rory Litwin said in Library Juice that the move would “commercialize the great research libraries with a handshake, suddenly and epochally.” The four directors of the Universal Li- brary and Million Book Project have received many questions ab…     

国家精品课程项目:利用开放教育资源提升本科教学质量

国家精品课程项目是中国高等教育领域的一项重大项目,旨在通过开放教育资源建设提升本科教学质量。西方研究者普遍认为,国家精品课程是受美国麻省理工学院开放课件项目(简称MIT OCW)启发的一种开放课程形式。本文以中国国家精品课程项目为研究主题,围绕项目的目标、运作实施、发展历程、启动背景、与MIT OCW的联系和差异等问题,采用文献研究、正式访谈、非正式交流等研究方法收集和分析研究资料,聚焦研究问题。论文提出基于开放教育资源的目的进行分类,将开放教育资源实践模式分为转变性的建设、直接使用、重新使用和公开/咨询四种类型,并利用这一分析框架讨论了中国国家精品课程项目和MIT OCW项目的异同。文章认为,国家精品课程项目是中国独立应对国内挑战的决策,而不是引进的开放课程模式;中国和北美地区对大学教学的认识非常不同,中国高等教育既借鉴了历史上法国重教学和德国重研究的大学模式,又结合了利用"榜样"、注重团队建设提升质量的传统。这使得国家精品课程项目具有独特的体制优势,与其他开放教育资源项目相区别,而且难以在北美地区执行,但这也有助于启发我们重新思考北美的大学教学及其改革。     

英国高教改革的最新动向

过去25年英国高等教育取得了长足的进步，但也面临着不少挑战。为确保未来英国高等教育的竞争优势，英国布莱尔政府于2003年1月推出《高等教育的未来》白皮书。人们可以从中发现：科研、教学、校企合作、扩大规模、入学公平性以及经费投入等诸方面的改革，将成为英国高等教育变革的最新动向。     

高等学校仪器设备和优质资源共享系统的建设与成效

“十五”“211工程”项目“高等学校仪器设备和优质资源共享系统”经过1年多的建设,顺利完成了预期的建设任务,获得“211工程”验收专家组的高度评价。入网建设的大型仪器设备和优质教育资源的建设成果面向高校和全社会服务,提高了共享使用的效益,发挥了积极作用。该文从建设任务完成情况及其效益方面进行阐述,并就该项目的“十一五”建设方向进行探讨。     

试论数字图书馆与网络环境下知识产权的保护

数字图书馆的优越性能是对传统图书馆功能的重大突破,是现阶段图书馆研究的重要课题.数字图书馆建设要解决好协作共享网络安全等问题,并作好网络环境下知识产权的保护.     

数字图书馆背景下馆员知识素质能力提升模型研究

数字图书馆是现代图书馆发展的主流形态。本文阐述了数字图书馆的发展与特征,提出了数字图书馆背景下对馆员在获取检索使用、聚合整理过滤、传递推广宣传、馆际协同融合、读者服务、公共服务等八个方面的能力要求,指出了现阶段高校图书馆队伍能力建设存在的不足,给出了数字图书馆背景下馆员知识素质能力提升模型,其能力提升途径策略主要包括业务进修培训、专题辅导讲座、学会学术交流、馆际考察学习、业务技术自修、项目建设实践、文化制度建设、校企合作发展、国际交流合作等十个方面。     

Universal Digital Library—— Future research directions

INTRODUCTION The stunning growth in storage technology prompted Prof. Raj Reddy of Carnegie Mellon University to envision that it would be possible to store in digital form, in the very near future, all knowledge ever acquired by the human race. As part of this grandiose vision and as a first step, in realizing this vision, it was proposed to create the Digital Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, predominantly in Indian languages, available to every…     

数字图书馆建设的特点与对策

数字图书馆通过信息技术来对文献资料实现搜集、整理、收藏和流通 ,将其提供在网上服务 ;数字图书馆的优势在于信息资源数字化、服务时空网络化、功能结构复合化和社会现实虚拟化 ;针对我国数字图书馆建设中存在的一些问题 ,在提高认识、掌握技术、加强协作和严格管理四个方面提出了对策     

Problems in interagency collaboration: Lessons from a project that failed

Several institutions (e.g., child welfare, police, court, health, education, social service) are necessarily involved in the management of child abuse in all communities. The need for better cooperation among them has been acknowledged; inquests into child deaths resulting from abuse have often attributed some blame to faulty communication and/or poor cooperation between the institutions. The Community Child Abuse Team (CCAT) Project was designed by these same institutions in Hamilton, Ontario, to maximize interagency collaboration. The hypothesis, that this "interagency collaboration" model would provide more efficient and effective services to abused children and their families, was never tested. During its 30 months of operation the CCAT program never materialized as planned and funding was terminated. This paper describes selected problems and issues that arose during the struggle to implement the project. The central problematic issue was control. Those responsible for the project lacked the power to insist that the design be adhered to during the initial stage.     

论中小学数字图书馆的建设

随着计算机技术、现代通讯技术、高密度存储技术的迅猛发展,中国数字图书馆工程已正式启动,中小学数字图书馆的建设已成为基础教育面临的一个研究课题,从数字图书馆的概念,中小学数字图书馆的现状, 如何建设中小学数字图书馆三个方面进行探讨,为中小学数字图书馆的建设提供了建设性指导。     

我国图书馆学的发展嬗变与世纪应对

作为社会科学重要组成部分的我国图书馆学,历经了萌生、成长、活跃、转型四个时期,跨入新世纪后面临着研究方法、自身变革等方面的挑战。化挑战为机遇的主要对策是转变研究观念、重建研究体系、改进研究方法、贴近研究对象。     

Project 12-ways: Measuring outcome of a large in-home service for treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect

Described here is Project 12-Ways, a large service project employing an ecobehavioral approach to the treatment and prevention of child abuse and neglect. By ecobehavioral it is meant that multifaceted in-home services are provided to clients, and that in-home data are collected on as many variables related to these services as possible. Four levels of research, data collection, and assessment are used to evaluate these services: Included here is a discussion of these levels of assessment. They are: data collected for clinical purposes; data from single-case experiments; research through the use of single-subject design logic applied to several subjects or groups of subjects, or by group statistical research designs; and program evaluation. The particular focus here is the program evaluation data which compare incidents of abuse and neglect during and after treatment between 50 families served by Project 12-Ways and 47 comparison protective service families. The data showed significantly fewer combined abuse and neglect incidents among the families served by Project 12-Ways. Suggestions for additional program evaluation data are provided along with a discussion of the limitations of the current analysis.     

Providing access to electronic information resources in further education

This article aims to provide a baseline for future studies on the provision and support for the use of digital or electronic information services (EIS) in further education. The analysis presented is based on a multi‐level model of access, which encompasses access to and availability of information and communication technology (ICT) resources, access to and availability of EIS resources, and the third leg of staff skills and their development. The research was conducted within the third cycle of the JISC (Joint Information Services Committee) User Behaviour Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, in 2001/2002. Evidence was gathered from library and information service web sites and various stakeholders, including library and information service staff, academic staff and students to generate insights into the provision of access to EIS in further education. Sector‐wide funding initiatives have had a significant impact on ICT infrastructures, and these attract a positive response from students. EIS are represented on some library web sites but both web site development and EIS availability is very much less advanced than in higher education. Staff, however, lack sufficient dedicated access to ICT to be able to develop their own skills and use. There remains a low level of access to electronic information resources, with only limited access to these resources through library web sites. LIS managers face a number of challenges in enhancing this provision, including licensing arrangements, tight budgets that need to be spread across many discipline areas, and the absence of EIS designed specifically for the further education student. The other key challenge lies in the provision of time and opportunity for academic and LIS staff to develop their ICT and EIS skills, and, more generally in the further development of the role of Information and Learning Technology (ILT) Champions.     

机遇与挑战——对加入WTO后我国高等院校建设工程项目管理专业发展的思考

入世后,我国高校工程项目管理专业所面对的既有机遇也有挑战,文章在浅析我国高教工程项目管理专业与国际之差距的基础上,对如何抓住机遇迎接挑战提出了一些基本看法.     

农远工程教学应用症结的调查研究

当前我国农远工程的深层次推进面临着新的机遇和挑战。该研究的目的重在探索农远工程教学应用的症结。研究采用了调查研究法,收集的数据来自于五个不同省份的市县。该研究认为,创新的信息化教学理论、模式与方法的缺失是农远工程教学应用症结的内因;过高的硬软件技术门槛是农远工程教学应用症结的外因;由农远工程本身引发的多种"两难关系"是农远工程教学应用症结的衍生。     

鸡西大学图书馆数字化建设构思

阐释了数字化建设应遵循的原则,详述了数字化建设的基本内容、实施步骤、采取的方法及要达到的目标,勾勒出鸡西大学图书馆数字化建设的可行性方案。     

Challenges of Chinese and European Universities in the Modernization and Global Context

Higher education systems need to increasingly transform in order to face new challenges of society in a modern and global context. Both Europe and China are facing challenges in restructuring their higher education systems and embracing the potential for higher education to deliver innovative teaching and learning as well as social and economic services for a changing society. This paper analyses the challenges to European and Chinese universities today and elaborates on the implications of these challenges for EU-China higher education collaboration. An analysis of challenges and relevant strategies in these two contexts can offer us insights into the strengths and weaknesses of each system. This can act as a solid basis for future collaborations or as potential barriers. Thus, this paper endeavors to fill in the gap regarding EU-China higher education cooperation by reducing the knowledge deficit and bringing mutual understanding, respect, trust, and ultimately benefit to both sides.