專題演講 時間：11月17日（星期一）上午10：00 地點：本館188會議室 講題：「Preserving the Past ─ Towards the Digitization of the German Cultural Heritage」 「保存過去─德國文化資產數位化」，以英語演說。 講者：Thomas Staecker博士 （德國Herzog August Library古籍典藏暨數位化部門主任） Abstract Preserving the Past – Towards the Digitization of the German Cultural Heritage In the course of the last years the Duke August Library in Wolfenbuettel, one of the leading independent research centers for the early modern period in Germany, has undertaken various activities to enhance access to source material by putting digitized manuscripts and imprints on the web and indexing the structural information they contain. As a member of the German decentral national library and funded by the German Research Foundation it has begun to digitize vast amounts of source materials, above all from the 17th century. The overall aim is to digitize all copyright-free imprints from the German-speaking area. The paper will focus on the manifold challenges related to this process. Vast quantities of precious source materials are to be digitized while respecting and fulfilling the high preservational standards maintained by the library. The master files created in these processes amount to dozens of terabyte which have to be adequately stored. Not only are there long-term archival problems to be solved, but persistent accessibility must also be provided. The challenges of the immediate future will be to coordinate the various efforts by libraries and other cultural heritage institutions in order to establish joint databases for digitized materials in Germany and to strengthen the collaboration of the different players in a global research community so that they collect and share resources on the web via well-defined XML interfaces. Dr. Thomas Stcker (Duke August Library in Wolfenbuettel) 過去幾年來 位於德國Wolfenbuettel 的 Duke August圖書館(身為幾個獨立之早期德國研究中心) 已投入相當大之努力將文憲數位化及數位'目錄'化 身為德國國家後遺圖書館成員之一(由德國研究基金會成立) 致力於將大量17世紀之文憲數位化 其終止是將德語系之公共版權之出版品全面數位化 此研究報告乃函蓋上述過程之各總問題及困難 大量文憲之數位化同時須考量圖書館重要珍藏品保存之要求 以上之過程包括超過一打以上之手續來完成文件儲存 未來立即之挑戰為 如何整合圖書館藏之德語文憲數位化及文化資產之保存及統合館際交流以成立共同資料庫