The 55th anniversaries of THCI journal “Thought and Words” took place in June 24 at College of Liberal Arts in National Taiwan University in 2017. UDP’s Editor-in-Chief Nancy Wuu felt highly honoured to deliver the keynote speech — “The Evolution of 'Thought and Words' over the half century — from the perspective of a digital archivist.”
As the biggest distributor for Chinese databases in North America, Kent D. Lee, the president/CEO of East View Information Services, and Jeff Strandberg, the marketing manager of Asian region at East View, visited the National Central Library with Nancy Wuu, our Editor-in-Chief.
When the emerging technologies have dramatically changed people’s behavior of reading, researching and purchasing, ‘digital publications’ became the new niche market where UDP has been devoted 20 years to producing high-quality digital archives for the disciplines of Sinology, Humanities and Social Sciences.
The digital archiving seminar for the book series of Chinese Humanities took places at the Department of Chinese Literature in Tamkang University. Nancy Wuu, the Editor-in-Chief of UDP, participated in the seminar to discuss the publication launch plan.
Invited by Guangxi Normal University Press, UDP’s Editor-in-Chief, Nancy Wuu, flew to their Shanghai branch to discuss further details about the new collaborations, such as：digital publications, distribution management of academic archives, and so on. The photograph was shot in Shanghai with Mr. Liu, the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Guangxi Normal University Press.
In order to well-prepare for the launch of Sinica Sinoweb in America and Canada, UDP’s alliance partner ─ East View ─ sent their director of strategic partnerships, Mr. Robert E. Lee to visit Taiwan. Nancy and Robert not only visited the Institute of History and Philosophy at Academia Sinica, but they also discussed with Professor LIU Zheng-Yun, who is the Curator of the Fu Ssu-nien Library, about how to integrate the rich digital resources of Academia Sinica and its great potential for further transdisciplinary collaborations with the global research communities.
“Lionart Monthly” released its first issue in 1971 and had published 307 issues, 44 million characters in total, which well documented the dynamic developments of arts, politics and cultures in Taiwan from 1970s to 1990s. Not only the complete content had been digitized by UDP, but the 3 classical bestsellers within the “Lionart Monthly” magazine — “Chinese Art Dictionary,” “Western Art Dictionary” and “Taiwanese Art Yearbook” — were also integrated in Lionart Digital Archive in 2011. This archive is an exciting collaboration between UDP and Lionart Publications Enterprise, who have the same vision to preserve the great artworks and cultural legacies for the next generation.
