PREFACE

Automating the office operation and improving the search, presentation, and preservation of digital data

Because of the great number of participating institutions and projects in the "Taiwan e-learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP)," the integration, search, presentation, management, storage, and backup of heterogeneous multimedia data have become increasingly important. In light of these circumstances, the "Core Platforms for Digital Content Project" assists the TELDAP Program Office to establish and maintain the infrastructure needed in order to integrate, preserve, and demonstrate the digital assets produced by all TELDAP projects.

The "Core Platformss for Digital Content Project" plans to organize annual exhibitions, develop an office automation system, maintain a resource center, and publish promotional works to provide common core services as well as create a display platform to popularize and internationalize digital archives, establish a long-term remote backup system for digital data, develop a unified user interface in order to remain consistent over time, and provide training, software, hardware, and storage media to facilitate sustainable preservation and management.