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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Launch of “The Cultural Revolution in Images: Caricature-Posters from Guangzhou 1966-1977”

The Library is proud to partner with  Dr. Laura Pozzi , Lecturer of the   Centre for China Studies , to launch this new digital colle... thumbnail 1 summary

    • The Library is proud to partner with Dr. Laura Pozzi, Lecturer of the Centre for China Studies, to launch this new digital collection, “The Cultural Revolution in Images: Caricature-Posters from Guangzhou 1966-1977”. Through high-definition digitization, the collection showcasing 216 original posters from the Library on the Cultural Revolution is now available online to the academic community throughout the world. With the curation effort of Dr. Pozzi, all the posters were meticulously classified and the collection is organized into two sections: the first entitled “Caricature Posters of the Cultural Revolution in Guangzhou” showcases posters dated between 1966 and 1967; the second section entitled “The End of the Gang of Four” presents posters dated between 1976 and 1977. The posters are then divided according to their content, mostly the identity of the politician they targeted. All the information about each image (author and date of production) together with a translation of texts and slogans contained in the posters are accessible by either clicking the individual poster or mouse over an individual poster in each section. 
    According to Dr. Pozzi, most of the pieces showcased in this collection are satirical caricatures against party leaders drawn in Guangzhou during the Cultural Revolution. This satirical content sets them apart from most known images of the Cultural Revolution, which are mainly propagandistic. It is hoped that this unique and valuable collection will be helpful to scholars in their research and teaching.
    The digital collection can be accessed at: http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/collection/crposter
    For enquiries, please contact us at digitization@lib.cuhk.edu.hk
    香港中文大學圖書館很榮幸與中國研究中心講師 Laura Pozzi博士合作推出新的圖書館數碼館藏：”漫畫中的文化大革命：廣州的諷刺宣傳畫 1966-1977”。216幅文化大革命期間的政治諷刺宣傳畫全部由圖書館收藏，透過高清掃瞄將此數碼館藏呈現給全世界。館藏中所有海報均由Pozzi博士精心分類為兩部分：第一部分“文革期間的廣州諷刺宣傳畫”收錄了1966至1967年的宣傳畫；第二部分“粉碎四人幫”則收錄1967至1977年的作品。除了以年份為主要區分，宣傳畫亦依照內容，尤其是作品中政治人物再作分類。讀者可將鼠標移至宣傳畫海報及點擊海報以了解更多相關資料，當中包括作者及創作年份及宣傳畫中所使用中文文本及口號的英譯版本。
    根據Pozzi博士介紹，此數碼館藏的大部分作品都是文革期間廣州民眾針對各黨派領袖所繪畫的諷刺漫畫。當中內容與黨派領袖在文化大革命中所宣傳的形像大相徑庭。本館衷心希望此獨特而有價值的藏品有助於學者進行研究及教學。
    如有查詢，可電郵至 digitization@lib.cuhk.edu.hk 與我們聯絡。



    Friday, June 2, 2017

    The work behind a video digital collection in CUHK Digital Repository - A Grain of Sand: Poems from Hong Kong

    What do you expect from a video digital collection? Fast streaming? High-definition pictures? Clear voices? Whenever our Digital Servi... thumbnail 1 summary
    • What do you expect from a video digital collection? Fast streaming? High-definition pictures? Clear voices? Whenever our Digital Services Team has the opportunity to handle a digital collection with audio and video items, we will investigate various ways to exploit the full potential of the collection. For instance, in “Chinese Women and Hong Kong Christianity: An Oral History Archive” which has audio and video clippings, images, and other formats of materials, they are all put together as a collection so that users can easily trace through all materials relating to the oral history of the interviewee like the following.  Another example is “United College General Education Senior Seminar Papers Database”.  Again, all materials relating to the paper are grouped together as a collection.



    In a recently launched video digital collection, namely, “A Grain of Sand: Poems from Hong Kong”, we experimented a few feature available in our Repository system (Islandora) to let users have a new experience in listening to English poems.
     
    This video digital collection is a collaboration project between the Library and the Department of English. It consists of 33 video recordings of 4 poets that have connections with The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in different capacities: Louise Ho , Andrew Parkin, Eddie Tay and Kit Fan. They recited their own poems about Hong Kong, and CUHK in particular, in a spectacular background of some landmarks in Hong Kong and CUHK campus.
     
    In order to let users visualize the poems not only in beautiful pictures but also in words, we used a new Islandora module called Oral Histories Solution Pack to display the subtitles of the poem in the video and in the time-coded transcript viewer underneath the video. This solution pack is developed by University of Toronto Scarborough Library, and the program codes are shared freely in Github with the Islandora community so that Islandorians including CUHK Library are able to share and contribute what we have enhanced back to the community.  This is the main benefit of using an open source software.  For more details of the Oral Histories Solution Pack, please refer to:  


     
    To prepare for display of subtitles, the team has evaluated different subtitles editing tools including those available in the GitHub site mentioned above.  Finally, an open source editor for video subtitles called Subtitle Edit (http://www.nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit/) was adopted as it is relatively easy to use and suitable for our project size and requirement.
     
    The digital texts are provided by the English Department.  We made use of the Subtitle Edit to provide time code for all 33 video clips.  The following is screenshot of the application. 

    The next step is to use the application to export the subtitles into WebVTT XML files that are suitable for the Solution Pack’s requirement.  Subtitle Edit is able to export the timecoded subtitles into various formats.
     
    It also offers functions like “Templating Export” as in Open Refine (http://openrefine.org/) that we also make use of when preparing MODS file.


    With these handy tools and the effort of the whole team, we are able to deliver the project within just a few weeks. We are now proud to present this new collection to the world so that users can appreciate the value of English poems. 
    We value any collaboration with Faculty.  Our services can be found here. Please let us know if there are any opportunity to create some interesting digital collections within our CUHK community.

    Friday, March 17, 2017

    1st anniversary of the CUHK Digital Repository 😀🎂🎈

    Today is the 1st anniversary of the CUHK Digital Repository ( http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk ). Over the past year, we have ingested over... thumbnail 1 summary
    • Today is the 1st anniversary of the CUHK Digital Repository (http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk). Over the past year, we have ingested over 1 million objects into the system. The objects include those items migrated from our legacy digital collections and also new items for our newly built digital collections.
    Meanwhile, in this month, the repository platform also recorded more than 1 million access to our objects.

    We will highlight some of our collections and their items in the next blog posts.

    Sunday, August 28, 2016

    Migration of CUHK Electronic Theses & Dissertations Collection into CUHK Digital Repository

    We are delighted to announce that CUHK Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) Collection is now accessible at the newly launched ... thumbnail 1 summary
    • We are delighted to announce that CUHK Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) Collection is now accessible at the newly launched CUHK Digital Repository.

    On this new platform, about 2,500 volumes of doctoral dissertations that were previously available in microfiches were added to make the Collection a complete set of theses and dissertations produced by our research postgraduate community. In addition, users are able to browse and search in this Collection by author, degree, department/division and year, or across all collections in the Repository. We believe this will enhance your online experience.

    Please feel free to contact us for any enquiries.

    «香港中文大學博碩士論文庫»的平台已轉至全新的香港中文大學數碼館藏供讀者參閱。

    新平台新增約2,500冊由縮微膠片數碼化的博士論文，令本論文庫更為完整。此外，讀者亦可選擇以論文作者、學位、學系/學部及年份進行瀏覽或搜索。我們希望藉此提升讀者使用數碼館藏的閱覽體驗。

    如有疑問，歡迎查詢。

    Tuesday, April 19, 2016

    The Launch of CUHK Digital Repository

    After more than a year of preparation, our CUHK Digital Repository was launched on 17 March 2016 together with the opening of our Digit... thumbnail 1 summary

    • After more than a year of preparation, our CUHK Digital Repository was launched on 17 March 2016 together with the opening of our Digital Scholarship Lab mentioned in our previous blog.

    This new Digital Repository is built based on a platform called Islandora. It is an open source framework to manage and showcase the digital objects using a best practices framework. Islandora is popular in Northern America where active user communities have been developed. We are proud to implement and localize the platform as the first known installation in Asia. 

    Dr. Louisa Lam, our Head of Research Support and Digital Initiatives, has been interviewed by the Islandora Foundation. The interview is published in the Islandora Show & Tell. On 27 April 2016 10 PM HKT, we will also work with Discovery Garden, our service consultant, to conduct a webinar about the building of our repository platform, please feel free to register at this link.

    In the coming weeks, our blog will be updated with our major collections and items that are of interests to readers. 


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