Ching-chih Chen

Ching-chih Chen Professor

Professor Chen is an author and editor of 35 books and more than 200 articles in the areas of information technology and management, recently specifically related to global digital libraries. She has received numerous major awards, including the Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award of the American Society for Information Science and Technology; the Library Information Technology Association's LITA/Gaylord Award for Achievement in Library and Information Technology, the LITA/HiTech Literature Award, and the LITA/OCLC Kilgour Award, the Humphrey/OCLC Award for outstanding contribution to international library work, as well as the first ALISE Pratt-Severn National Faculty Award in Library and Information Studies. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. She served as a member of both President Clinton's and President Bush's Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1998-2002, and was actively involved in several PITAC subcommittees, including Digital Library, Digital Divide, Future of Learning, Individual Security, and International Issues.

Professor Chen has devoted her major efforts in recent years to digital library research and development. Her Global Memory Net, a multi-year International Digital Library Project, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF/IDLP), was publicly launched in July 2006. Its collaborators include UNESCO's Memory of the World, the Asian Division of Library of Congress, and many other major institutions around the world. Currently she is leading another major 36-month NSF/IDLP project related to digital imaging, and is a co-PI of the major China-U.S. Million Book Digital Library Project supported by NSF and the Chinese Ministry of Education. She was a member of the advisory board of the DELOS (European Network of Excellence in Digital Libraries). A consultant to the China Digital Library Program of the National Library of China, she is on Steering Committee and/or Program Committees of many international digital library conferences, including the Asian International Conference on Digital Libraries, European Conference on Digital Libraries, ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, International Conference on Digital Libraries, New Delhi, and Russian Conference on Digital Libraries.

Teaching Areas

Global digital library development, multimedia technology and applications, web-publishing

Selected Publications

Chen, Ching-chih, "Challenges for Developing a World Digital Library and Gateway: The Case of Global Memory Net," LIDA 2006 (Libraries in the Digital Age), Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 31, 2006. Paper appeared in Proceedings: Cultural, Social and Institutional Effects and Place of Digital Libraries, & Building a Digital Library for Children and Young Adults. pp. 129-138. June 2006.

Chen, Ching-chih, "Global Memory Net Offers Users the World Instantly," International Review, June 2006.

Wang, James Z., Kurt Grieb, Ya Zhang, Ching-chih Chen, Yixin Chen, and Jaia Li, "Machine annotation and retrieval for digital imagery of historical materials," International Journal on Digital Libraries, 6 (1); 18-29 (February 2006).

Chen, Ching-chih, "Thai's Invaluable Memory Celebrated via Global Memory Net," Keynote speech presented at the 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICAD 2005), Bangkok, Thailand, December 13, 2005. Paper published in Proceedings - Digital Libraries: Implementing Strategies and Sharing Experiences, edited by Edward A. Fox, et al. Berlin, Germany: Springer, 2005. pp. 496-508.

Nagatsuka, Takashi, and Ching-chih Chen, "Global Memory Net Offers New Innovative Access to Tsurumi's Old Japanese Waka Poems and Tales, and Maps," Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICAD 2005), December 14, 2005. Paper published in Proceedings - Digital Libraries: Implementing Strategies and Sharing Experiences, edited by Edward A. Fox, et al. Berlin, Germany: Springer, 2005. pp. 149-157.

Ching-chih Chen, Howard Wactlar, James Z. Wang and Kevin Kiernan, "Digital Imagery for Significant Cultural and Historical Materials - An Emerging Research Field Bridging People, Culture, and Technologies," International Journal on Digital Libraries, 5: 275-285 (2005).

Chen, Ching-chih, "New Mode of Universal Access and Global Memory Net," Invited speech delivered at the International Conference on Universal Digital Libraries (ICUDL), Hangzhou, China, November 2, 2005. Article published in Journal of Zhejiang University SCI, 6A (11): 1200-1209 (November 2005).

Speeches and Conference Presentations

On August 27-28, 2007, Prof. Chen was invited speaker at the 2-day Leadership Program on IT and Economic Development in Mbabani, organized by the American Embassy in Swaziland.

On August 20, 2007, Prof. Chen delivered three major speeches at the Divisional Meetings of three IFLA Divisions at the IFLA (International Federation of Library Institutions) 73th Annual Meeting in Durban, South Africa. The Three Divisions are Art Libraries Division, Multimedia and Resource Sharing Division, and Government Libraries Division.

In July she was the key invited speaker at the 2007 NDAP Workshop on Collection Internationalization and International Collaboration Program, Academia Sinica, Taipei, July 23, 2007.

Professor Ching-chih Chen was an invited speaker at the University San Luis Potosi (SLP) in Mexico on June 25 and at the SLP Humanities Council on June 29, 2007. She also visited two World Heritage Sites—Sierra Gorda and Quaratero, under the sponsorship of the Ministry of Culture of Guaratero. This is related to her World Heritage Memory Net project in partnership with UNESCO World Heritage Center (see http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/326).

"West by East - East by West: Cultural and Technological Exchange in the Case of Global Memory Net," and "Using Tomorrow's Retrieval Technology to Explore the Heritage: Bonding Past and Future in the Case of Global Memory Net," were two papers presented at the IFLA 2006 meeting in Seoul, Korea, August 21, 2006.

"Using Web as a Platform in Developing Seamlessly Integrated World Digital Library for Global Use: The Challenges of Global Memory Net," was an invited speech given at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan, July 14, 2006.

"Challenges for Developing a World Digital Library and Gateway: The Case of Global Memory Net," was an invited speech delivered at the LIDA 2006 (Libraries in the Digital Age), Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 31, 2006.

"Conceptualizing Interactive Dynamic Multimedia Information Provision and Access: The Case of Global Memory Net," was an invited speech delivered at the National and University Library of Zagreb organized by the Society of Information and Documentation of Croatia, May 29, 2006.

"Using Web as a Platform in Developing Seamlessly Integrated World Digital Library for Global Use: The Case of Global Memory Net," was an invited Speech delivered at the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, May 23, 2006.

"New Digital Library Perspectives from International Library and Information Point of View: The Case of Global Memory Net," was a keynote speech at the Conference for Academic Library Directors, Tainan, Taiwan, May 19, 2006.

"Global Memory Net and Universal Access: Latest Development and Potential for Collaboration and E/T," was an invited speech delivered at UNESCO, Paris to invited staff of several UNESCO information and cultural projects, including Memory of the World, Literacy, World Heritage, World Knowledge Portal, and Slave Route & Histories on March 17, 2006.

"Thai's Invaluable Memory Celebrated via Global Memory Net," was a keynote speech presented at the 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICAD 2005), Bangkok, Thailand, December 13, 2005 in celebration of the 50th Birthday of H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, the Patron of the Thai Library Association.

"New Mode of Universal Access: Global Memory Net and Universal Digital Library," was presented at the Panel on Content-based and Object-Specific Image Retrieval Techniques for Museum Images chaired by Ching-chih Chen at the Museum Computer Network Meeting (MCN@Boston), Boston, November 4, 2005.

"New Mode of Universal Access and Global Memory Net," was an invited speech delivered at the International Conference on Universal Digital Libraries (ICUDL), Hangzhou, China, November 1, 2005.

"New Mode of Universal Access: The Latest Development of Global Memory Net," was an invited Lecture at the Distinguished Seminar Series of OCLC at the Kilgour Auditorium, OCLC, Dublin, OH, September 30, 2005.

"Global Memory Net: Possibilities for non-humanities contents," was an invited speech delivered at National Agricultural Library, Silver Spring, MD, August 26, 2005.

"Global World Library in the digital age: Potentials & challenges in the case of Global Memory Net," was an invited lecture delivered at the Whitall Pavilion, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress (LC), August 25, 2005, organized by the Asian Division of LC.

"Digital Libraries and Universal Access: What Global Memory Net Hopes to Achieve," was the topic of the invited speeches delivered at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (July 27, 2005), Institute of Scientific and Technological Documentation Center (July 28, 2005), National Library of China (July 29, 2005), and Palace Museum (July 30th) during her whirlwind week-long trip to Beijing, China.

Appointments and Consultantships

Prof. Chen continues as the Honorary Professor at the University of Hainan, Haiko, Hainan, China

Prof. Chen continues as a consultant to the China Digital Library Program, National Library of China

Prof. Chen continues as a co-PI of the US-China Million Book Project

Prof. Chen continues to serve as a member of the Advisory Board of Journal of Information, Communication, and Library Science

Prof. Chen continues as the Steering Committee member of The Asian International Conference on Digital Libraries (AICDL)

Prof. Chen continues as the Program Committee member of The Asian International Conference on Digital Libraries (AICDL), European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL), ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL), New Delhi, and Russian Conference on Digital Libraries (RCDL)

Grants and Major Projects

NSF International Digital Library Program Award for Global Memory Net—$410,000.00 from May 1, 2000 - October 30, 2005.

NSF International Digital Library Program Award for International Collaboration to Advance User-oriented Technologies for Managing and Distributing Images in Digital Libraries—A three-year project with Ching-chih Chen of Simmons College as PI, and Prof. James Z. Wang of the Pennsylvania State University and Prof. Jian-bo Shi of the University of Pennsylvania as co-PIs and Prof. V. W. Soo of the National Tsinghua University as a collaborator. Sept. 1, 2004 - August 30, 2007, $494020.00,

NSF Travel Grant for US Speakers to DELOS Workshop on Multimedia in Digital Libraries, Crete, Greece, June 2-3, 2003. Dr. Ching-chih Chen, Co-Program Chair.

NSF International Digital Library Program Award for CMNet (Chinese Memory Net): US-Sino Collaborative Research Toward A Global Digital Library In Chinese Studies—$410,000.00 for 30 months starting from May 1, 2000.

NSF International Digital Library Program Award for International Travel for NIT 2001.

China-US Million Book Digital Library Project—Announced by the Ministry of Education at the 12th International Conference on New Information Technology (NIT 2001) at Tsinghua University, Beijing, May 29, 2001. Dr. Raj Reddy of Carnegie Mellon University (Co-Chair of PITAC) and Dr. Chen are the U.S. Co-Principal Investigators of the multi-million and multi-year project.

Honors

ALA LITA/OCLC Kilgour Award, June 2006
US United Cultural Convention's International Peace Prize, June 2006
Honorary Professor, University of Hainan, Hainan, China,
2004 -

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Academic Background

B.A., National Taiwan University
A.M.L.S., University of Michigan
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University