Please join us on Monday, May 21 for a talk beginning at 10:30 am in SILS 107, at UCD Belfield.
Dr. Ching-chih Chen will be speaking on the following;
World Heritage Is Only One Click Away! Have We Fully Explored the Potentials of New Media and Technology?
In this fast moving digital technology era, new information technology has overcome the problems of time and space (distance). In this talk, Prof. Chen will show how the world treasured cultural and heritage resources, regardless the format of content – texts, audios, sound, images, videos, 360 degree panoramic views, visualization, etc. – can be instantly presented to information seeker(s) for universal access and sharing at a simple click of the mouse. Everyone in the world, regardless where he/she is located, can “see, explore, discover, experience” our amazing world, and then gain more in-depth knowledge on the topic sought.
Dr. Ching-chih Chen is a consultant and speaker to over 40 countries. She became Professor Emerita of Simmons College, Boston in June 2010 after 39-year teaching and research and has since become President of a non-profit organization, Global Connection and Collaboration, Inc. She is the author/editor of more than 35 books and over 200 journal articles in areas of new information technologies, such as global digital libraries, multimedia technology, digital imaging, interactive videodisc technology, global information infrastructure, information management, and information resources, etc. She produced the award winning interactive videodisc and multimedia CD entitled The First Emperor of China, supported by the US National Endowment for Humanities (NEH). In addition to numerous digital activities, she has led two major global digital library projects supported by the US National Science Foundation’s International Digital Library Project: (1) Global Memory Net, a global image digital library and gateway to the world cultural, historical, and heritage multimedia resources, with collaborators from different part of the world, and (2) World Heritage Memory Net in partnership with the UNESCO’s World Heritage Center.
An elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1985), she was appointed by President Clinton in February 1997 to serve as a member of the U.S. President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) under both Presidents Clinton and Bush during 1997 to December 2002. Prof. Chen was Chief Organizer of a series of twelve International Conferences on New Information Technology (NIT) in many continents of the world. She is a recipient of over twenty major awards since 1970. Since 2006, two major awards given to her were the coveted LITA/OCLC Kilgour Award from the Library Information Technology Association in June 2006, and the American Library Association’s major Beta Phi Mu Award in June 2008.
A sought-after international speaker in over two dozen countries, she has delivered keynote speeches and made presentations at numerous international conferences including those in countries like Argentina, China, Croatia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Russia, Spain, Singapore, South Africa, Swaziland, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, Vietnam, etc.
More information on Prof. Ching-chih Chen can be found in http://globalcc.org/ccc/index.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching-chih_Chen
