Chan, SY

Ku, KM

Wan, YC

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Title Worth a Thousand Words: Hong Kong Images project at theUniversity of Hong Kong LibrariesAuthor(s) Ku, KM; Chan, SY; Wan, YCCitation The 2014 Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance Meeting, Macau,China, 2-4 December 2014Issued Date 2014URL http://hdl.handle.net/10722/206988Rights Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong LicenseHong Kong Images project at the University of Hong Kong LibrariesK.M. Ku, Eunice S.Y. Chan & Y.C. WanThe University of Hong Kong LibrariesPRDLA 2014 Meeting 。Macau 。2 December 2014 Situated at the south-eastern tip of China A total area of 1,108 square kilometres, comprising Hong Kong Island, Kowloon Peninsular and the New Territories A population of about 7.1 million, mainly ethnic Chinese A Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China ‘A barren rock with hardly a house upon it’, some 170 years ago Ruled by the British for more than 150 years From a place of no particular importance to a financial, trading and business centre A city with many histories, each written for its age, with different audiences in mind and from different points of viewPerhaps, there is nothing better than images to tell the stories of this cityHowever, our rich collection of images are scattered and work needs to be done to improve access  Abel, Clarke, Narrative of a journey in the interior of China … London: Ormeand Brown, 1818,  insert between p.60 &  61Dated 1816, probably one of Hong Kong’s first images Abel, Clarke, Narrative of a journey in the interior of China … London: Orme and Brown, 1818,  insert between p.60 &  61Dated 1816, probably one of Hong Kong’s first images Photo of Waterfall Bay taken on September 20, 2014Credits and thanks to Kevin Dharmawan www.kevindharmawan.com2014Harbour of Hong Kong. Illustrated London News, 1843, v.2 page 245by W. P. FLOYD, c1870sKowloon City, 1986Wong Tai Sin. c.1960s Awarded funding by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charity Trust to build a “Hong Kong Places” database Provided staffing to organize the Libraries’ collection of Hong Kong images Selected and annotated some 3,000 images from the collection Mostly building photographs, street views and aerial images, taken since the mid-nineteenth centuryDigital object repository systemOriginal sourceChange of file formatsMetadata input, records and media files upload, record publishingBrowse and search on web18http://www.hkmemory.hk/collections/hkplaces/About_the_Collection/index.htmlTo build an image database that covers places, people and events , using the new Fedora Commons platform which is able to assert semantic relationships among imageslucene.apache.org/solr/www.fedora-commons.org/projectblacklight.org/Search EngineDiscovery interfaceDigital object repository system21 Store all types of content and its metadata  Scale to millions of objects Full-Text search, faceted search and browse capabilities Optimized for high volume web traffic Near real-time indexing Provide RDF search  Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)DISTRICT1 DISTRICT2 DISTRICT3 BUILDING GoogleMapHong Kong IslandCentral and Western DistrictThe Peak Peak Tower 22.271121, 114.15023307…Peak Galleria 22.270223842539842, …Sheung Wan Man Mo Temple 22.283883, 114.1501749999…Western Market 22.287336, 114.15038092…Shun Tak Centre 22.28815363525, 114.15230411…Central District City Hall 22.28243541095592, 114.169193…Bank of China Building 22.280226486718735, 114.16032…Swire House 22.28248678401615, 114.157…Wan Chai District Causeway Bay World Trade Centre22.28171068909734, 114.18445…Government Stadium 22.27269602660384, 114.1842…Victoria Park 22.282244438546247, 114.1887…Po Leung Kuk 22.276369, 114.185069…DISTRICT BUILDINGCentral District Jardine HouseCentral District Connaught CentreCentral District Jardine HouseTIMEc.1950s19731988PlacePeopleEventObjectJournalistNg, Bar-ling, 1905-1976吳灞陵《華僑日報》Hua qiao ri baoHong Kong Year Book 1950Metadata Cloudsourcing

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