{"id":144,"date":"2014-07-25T10:34:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tudsc\/?p=144"},"modified":"2019-08-26T11:34:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:34:36","slug":"field-digitization-in-hue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tudsc\/2014\/07\/25\/field-digitization-in-hue\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Digitization in Hu\u1ebf"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Matt Shoemaker<\/p>\n

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Earlier this year the Temple University Library formed a partnership with\u00a0The Center for Vietnamese Philosophy, Culture, and Society at Temple University to conduct a field digitization project of southern Vietnamese cultural documents. Many of these documents have been scattered over the years, hidden in temples and homes to protect them during times of military conflict and governmental change. This has kept the materials safe but limited who could use them and raised concern for their physical well-being.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Nguy\u1ec5nTh\u1ecb \u0110i\u1ec3u and Dr. Ng\u00f4 Thanh Nh\u00e0n came to us with this project seeking a way to provide access to these documents once they are digitized and described as well as for some advice on relevant library practices.\u00a0This summer, Dr. Ng\u00f4 Thanh Nh\u00e0\u00a0has been in Vietnam training a team and traveling with them across the Vietnamese countryside in a van digitizing, cataloging, and describing the cultural\u00a0materials. The digital files will make their\u00a0way to Philadelphia for eventual display within TUL’s Digital Collections<\/a>\u00a0making them available to\u00a0digital scholars\u00a0and other researchers.<\/p>\n

Dr. Ng\u00f4 Thanh Nh\u00e0n<\/span>\u00a0recently provided an update from the field, an excerpt of which is posted below. Though the hands-on work for this project is just beginning, we are eager to move forward and provide a space for researchers to access these once\u00a0hidden materials.<\/span><\/p>\n

The below is an excerpt from a post by Dr.\u00a0Ng\u00f4 Thanh Nh\u00e0n on how the project has gotten off of the ground in Vietnam. For his full text and more images please visit the full post at:\u00a0http:\/\/huelibrary.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/16\/digital-preservation-workshop-in-hue\/<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The General Library of Th\u1eeba Thi\u00ean Hu\u1ebf is located in the city of Hu\u1ebf, an important cultural center of Vietnam. The library, a specially designed four-story building, is surrounded by gardens, palaces, monuments, and tombs of emperors. Founded on September 16, 1976, the library was once known as The Library of B\u00ecnh-Tr\u1ecb-Thi\u00ean until 1989. The General Library of Th\u1eeba Thi\u00ean Hu\u1ebf is funded by the City of Hu\u1ebf and is a part of the Ministry of Culture’s City Office of Culture, Sports, and Tourism. It is also professionally supported by the National Library of Vietnam in Hanoi<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The General Library of Th\u1eeba Thi\u00ean Hu\u1ebf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With the help of the General Science Library of Ho Chi Minh City, digital collection began in 2009. To date, the collection consists of 142,835 images of 248 distinct family archives, 13 districts, and 52 villages.<\/p>\n

Now, for the first time, under the Pilot Digital Project with Temple University Libraries, the General Library of Th\u1eeba Thi\u00ean Hu\u1ebf has its own set of digitization equipment, managed by the Office of Information of Technology.<\/p>\n

The Paley Library Project Team consists of Dean Joseph Lucia, Delphine Khanna, Doreva Belfiore, Jonathan LeBreton, Matt Shoemaker, and Gabriel Galson. The Digital Working Group, headed by Nguy\u1ec5n Nh\u01b0 T\u0129nh (Chief of the GLH Office of Information Technology) consists of Ph\u1ea1m Xu\u00e2n Ph\u01b0\u1ee3ng, Prof. Nguy\u1ec5n Th\u1ecb Thanh, Ho\u00e0ng Th\u1ecb H\u1ea3i V\u00e2n, Mai Chi, Tr\u01b0\u01a1ng Th\u1ecb Thanh Nh\u00e0n, \u0110\u1eb7ng Thanh Ho\u00e1, Nguy\u1ec5n Nh\u01b0 T\u0129nh, L\u00ea Vi\u1ebft Tu\u1ea5n, Ph\u1ea1m Tu\u1ea5n Anh, and B\u00f9i T\u1ef1 Th\u00e0nh.<\/p>\n

The first day of the Digital Preservation Workshop, June 23, 2014, began at 7am with the workshop organizers meeting over coffee in the Ch\u1ee3t Nh\u1edb Library garden. Next, Director L\u00ea<\/span>\u00a0Tr\u1ecdng B\u00ecnh delivered an opening statement, and Dr. Ng\u00f4 Thanh Nh\u00e0n presented an overview of the Pilot Digitization Workshop.<\/p>\n

The afternoon of the first day allowed participants to gain hands-on experience with components such as multilingual text processing and the camera and Dell workstation.<\/p>\n

Throughout the following nine days of the Digital Preservation Workshop, participants learned about digital preservation standards, Dublin Core,\u00a0 image processing,\u00a0Lightroom<\/em>, and so on. They had the opportunity to participate in a lot of hands on experience as well. For example, below, you can see Tu\u1ea5n Anh and Quang completing the shooting of two volumes of\u00a0Subfamily Nguy\u1ec5n Khoa Genealogy<\/em>\u00a0(from Cadi\u00e8re Collection).<\/p>\n

\"Training<\/a>
Training to work with the equipment and documents<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Digital Preservation Workshop also included field trips to sites that house important documents that need to be digitized and archived. Below, you can see Director L\u00ea Tr\u1ecdng B\u00ecnh and Prof. Nguy\u1ec5n Th\u1ecb Thanh reading silk scrolls at \u6b78\u570b\u516c\u7960 \u201cQuy Qu\u1ed1c C\u00f4ng t\u1eeb\u201d (Worshiping Temple for National Building Hero).<\/p>\n

\"Starting<\/a>
Starting to digitize in the field<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After an eventful two weeks, the working group said their goodbyes at Hu\u1ebf Airport on July 5, 2014.<\/p>\n

\"From<\/a>
From left, Quang, Th\u00e0nh, me, Ch\u1ecb Thu, Tu\u1ea5n.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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