1. VEAL & the TIGER Comments on digital libraries

2. Introduction What is a digital library? –Emulating the card catalog… –Faster and cheaper –Evolving What does the future hold? –Emulating the mind –Friendlier and wiser –Resource sharing

3. What is a digital library? ARL Proceeding 126: Realizing Digital Libraries, 1995 http://www.arl.org/arl/proceedings/126/index.ht ml http://www.arl.or Gary Cleveland, Digital libraries: Definitions, issues and challenges, 1998 http://www.ifla.org/VI/5/op/udtop8/udtop8.htm#1 http://www.ifla.org/VI/5/op/udtop8/udtop8.htm#1 Digital Library Technologies Trends, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2002. http://www.sun.com/edu/libraries http://www.sun.com/edu/libraries California Digital Library http://www.cdlib.orghttp://www.cdlib.org

4. Commercial digital libraries netLibrary Ebrary Questia Superstar 21media Eshunet e

5. The traits Emulating the card catalog; the stacks; the reference desk… the old library Text dominance Mono-lingual Faster & cheaper

6. An IBM diagram http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~fox/EDMEDIA96/DLIBM.pdfhttp://ei.cs.vt.edu/~fox/EDMEDIA96/DLIBM.pdf.

7. The East Asian breakouts Information providers: –CEAL site; e-Asia; UCB Stone Rubbings; CEAL directory; EAL websites; Eastlib; etc. Services enablers: –RLIN CJK; OCLC CJK; PAIR; askEASL; OPACs; etc. Virtual East Asian Libraries

8. Libraries in transition 14.4M volumes of books & others media $11.3M of annual acquisitions budget 479 FTE of staff 53 locations ---CEAL statistics, 2002

9. The digital differences Fast Compact Translatable Programmable Distributed Connected

10. The new library Digital & non-digital resources Multi-media Geographically spread out Technologically integrated Multi-sensors Multi-languages Programmable

11. T echnologically I ntegrated G roup of E nabling R esources (TIGER) Technologically Integrated for efficiency Grouped for sharing & conservation Enabling the creation & use of information Resources are intellectual and physical properties

12. Multi-sensors Read Write Tactile Speak Listen Think Smell (sniff out the coffee before buying online!) Taste?

13. Multi-languages Natural languages Machine languages Gestures, images and signs Sounds Tactile Smell

14. The sound of books Silent reading Reading in dialects

15. Literacy Read & write Machine assisted literacy

16. Programmable Machine translation Reading the future Animates reality Automated creation

17. Translations Natural languages Machine languages Gestures, images and signs Sounds Tactile Smell

18. Reading the future Anticipation of events Projection of trend lines Deduction

19. Creative environment Natural creation Machine creation

20. Costs Retro-con The China remedy Deep Blue Yahoo

21. What can a TIGER be? Library emulator Robotic intellectual Artificial life Sharing

22. Conclusion Digital library is not fully defined Who are going to define it? Quo vadis?

23. Thank You!