06/15 /2008 TELDAP e-Newsletter (June, 2008)

Taiwan Pavilion Highly Appreciated in New York! artkey Art Licensing Center/Simon Ho   This year is the fourth time Taiwan takes part in the Licensing International Expo, which is held at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center at New York City. Taiwan Pavilion uses “Creative Taiwan-Best Idea For You” as its theme and tries to present unique licensing contents of Taiwan cultures. Many enthusiastic buyers contacted us on the first day and products of art, Character and ACG were most popular. Meanwhile various poster publishers and manufacturers of gifts, stationeries, and houseware from USA, United Kingdom, Russia, Brazil, and India showed their interests.......More IFLA SATELLITE MEETING ON RDA, Friday, August 8, 2008; 9:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. RDA Project Manager/Marjorie Bloss   RDA - Resource Description and Access will be a new standard for resource description and access, designed for the digital world.......More Repository Interface for Overlaid Journal Archives - RIOJA meeting Panayiota Polydoratou, UCL Library Services/Project Officer and Researcher   Emerging publishing models: exploring new ventures for delivering science publishing Date: Monday July 7th, 2008 Venue: Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK Time: 10.00 - 16.15 Directions: http://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/directions.php Registration: Attendance at the RIOJA meeting is free and lunch will be provided. Due to space limitations and catering requirements though, early registration is advised. ......More 'Happy snaps - East Coast pics of Yesteryear' Glamorgan Spring Bay Historial Society/Jennie Chapman   An exhibition of photographs and cameras......More Design Island - New Horizons Mawsons Place Waterside Pavilion/Ms Pippa Dickson   Design Island is an exhibition of innovative Tasmanian design and architecture......More Behind the Lines 2007: The year's best cartoons Tourism Tasmania/Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts   An exhibition of political cartoons from the best of Australia's newspaper cartoonists over 2007......More Michael Wesch To Discuss "The Anthropology of YouTube" at Library of Congress on June 23 Library of Congress/Donna Urschel   More video material has been uploaded to YouTube in the past six months than has ever been aired on all major networks combined, according to cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch. About 88 percent is new and original content, most of which has been created by people formerly known as "the audience."......More ISPRS2008 in Beijing ISPRS2008 Registration, Accommodation/ZHOU Honghui   The XXI Congress The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing is held in Beijing on.........More Map Asia 2008 Map Asia 2008/Map Asia 2008 Secretariat   . The Asia and Pacific region is the largest developing region in the world in landmass, population and aggregate income. Its 48 countries have nearly three fifth of the worlds total population. Each country in the region abounds in rich natural capital and has comprehended the true potential of Geospatial information in leveraging this capital to its utmost economic viability. The Asian region is forging a path of development and economic growth as a function of establishment of infrastructural capital.......More Cartoon America: A Library of Congress Exhibition Library of Congress/　   The Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature with more than 36,000 original cartoon drawings. A jewel among the Library's special collections, illuminating his astounding lifetime legacy of American creativity....... Taiwan Digital Archives —Showcasing Taiwan’s Linguistic, Biological and Cultural Diversity 　The New and Creative Way of Communicating Project/Digital Information　   Taiwan, the largest island on the Tropic of Cancer, enjoys both subtropical and tropical climates and provides a thriving natural environment for a myriad of creatures. Although it only occupies 0.02% of the world’s surface, Taiwan is home to more than 46,000 species (out of approximately 2 million species in the world) of flora and fauna, which is more than 100 times of the world average. Over the centuries, immigrants of manifold origins arrived on this picturesque island to fish, hunt, and farm. People go out of their way to cultivate and enlighten one another, work together through the division of labor, and govern collectively. Taiwan has thus become a melting pot of multiple cultures.......More

Issue： TELDAP e-Newsletter (June, 2008)
Publish Date： 06/15 /2008
First Issue： 02/15 /2007
（Published on 15th every 2 months）

Publisher：Tsui-jung Liu, Vice President of Academia Sinica
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