Culture Mondo Network& NDAP, Taiwan:

Taiwanese e-Culture update

Shih-Chieh "Ilya" LiProject Manager of NDAP, Taiwan

IIS, Acdemia Sinica / Culture Mondo NetworkJan. 25, 2007 at APAN 23rd Manila meeting

http://culturemondo.org http://www.ndap.org.tw

e-Culture for Taiwan

• Integrating NDAP's digital archives with web 2.0, Internet technologies

• Empowerment of local & global cultural heritage organizations, institutions, & professionals

• Systematic participation in, research of & exchange among global e-Culture

Why Culture Portal?

• Culture context of digitization: returning to the roots of NDAP's work

• Place of exchange & diversities: where people/users embrace culture

• Portal as technologies: extending and utilizing Internet & technologies

What is CultureMondo?

• Loose global culture portal community network

• Int'l steering committee & annual roundtable meeting

• Physical & virtual community practices

Culture Mondo Roundtable 1June 2005@Aichi, Nagoya, Japan

8%12%

31%15%

35%

America Asia Europe Africa Oceania

26 participants, 18+ countries/portals

Agenda in CM.RT1

• Culture Mondo 2005 survey results & analysis

• Partnerships

• Governance

• Marketing & audience needs

• Content & its management

• Concluding Remarks: learning from each other on new frontier

Culture Mondo Roundtable IIOct. 2006@Dubrovnik, Croatia

2%2%

70%

6%

20%

America Asia Europe Africa Oceania

51 participants, 28 countries,

44 portals

Agenda in CM.RT II

• Culture Mondo 2006 survey results & analysis

• Web 2.0: paradigm & practical discussion

• Culture networks in virtual spheres

• A new era for international cooperation

• Measures of success, & the development of comparative studies

• Future actions & the direction of the network

So, CultureMondo is...

• Culture Mondo is "an informal network of culture portals from around the world"

• We working together as a community of practice to share ideas, information & best practices

• The network is an open group of interested professionals, holding activities coordinated by ISC of 8 countries/portals.

What would CM mean for NDAP?

• Information exchange among global cultural professional communities

• Information evolution from database to network services

• Protocol stack of multiple layers

What's Next?

• Inviting Asian countries participate the global Culture Portal Survey

• Collaborate with Asian countries to bring other advancements back into culture portal network

• Initiate interesting collaboration projects among global cultural portals

• Discovering external e-Culture resources

GlobalVoicesOnline.org& GV Lingua

Orchid Island Semantic Boat

Thanks for your attention!

Any questions about Culture Mondo Network & NDAP, Taiwan, could be sent to ilya@iis.sinica.edu.tw