West Meets East: Digitizing Humanities at University of Pittsburgh Michael Dabrishus Haihui Zhang University Library System, University of Pittsburgh July 1, 2015 Stanford University

University Library System (ULS) at PITT *More than 6.8 million volumes *More than 185,000 journal titles including e-journals *Over 1 million e-books *More than 700 electronic database resources

1. A Pilot Project Modern China Studies http://digital.library.pitt.edu/e/eal-mcs/ Year 2002 In 2003, ULS received a two-year grant (2003-2005) from NEH and was the only individual institution in the NEH Brittle books and serials category to receive an award that includes a component to digitize materials for access. 37 titles (approximately 10,500 pages) In 2004, a US-China cooperative project titled “China-US Million Book Digital Library Project” became well-known through making it available on the web. Another project, a partnership between Google, Inc., and five research libraries (the “Google 5”), was also announced in 2004. However, two years earlier in 2002, ULS at Pitt received funding from National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) to catalog and preserve 3,000 acidic and rare books from our Chinese monograph collection.

Although the final product can’t be compared with full-text searchable products today and the usage number has decreased as shown in Table 2 due to more and more Chinese ebooks becoming available in past ten years, the pilot project did enable the DRL to experiment with adapting new methodologies, tools, and techniques for creating, processing, and indexing digital library content for foreign language materials.

2. Digitization of East Asian Special and Unique Collection Two digitized projects of Japanese art collection: Tsukioka Kogyo: The Art of Noh, 1869-1927 http://digital.library.pitt.edu/k/kogyo/index.html Barry Rosensteel Japanese Print Collection http://images.library.pitt.edu/r/rosensteel/contents.html.

2. Digitization of East Asian Special and Unique Collection (Cont.) Szeming Sze Papers Dr. Szeming Sze (施思明), Son of Dr. Alfred Sao-ke Sze (施肇基, Zhaoji Shi) a variety of documents relating to the creation of the World Health Organization (WHO) the entire collection of the Szeming Sze Papers was digitized and opened to the public at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid- idx?c=ascead;cc=ascead;q1=Faculty%20Papers;rgn=main;view=text;did no=US-PPiU-ua90f141

Sze Szeming Papers (Cont.) Alfred Sao-ke Sze (1877–1958) Szeming Sze (1908 – 1998)

Sze Szeming Papers (Cont.)

2. Digitization of East Asian Special and Unique Collection (Cont.) Chinese Land Records land deeds, property trade documents, possession draw documents, tax bills, etc. It includes 220 pieces span over three hundred years from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) to the mid-twentieth century only online collection of Chinese Land Records with open access status available on the internet http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid- idx?c=ascead&cc=ascead&rgn=main&view=text&didno=US-PPiU-sc201101

Chinese Land Records

3. An Exploratory Pilot Project Gao Archive Gao Minglu (高名潞) Contemporary Chinese Art manuscripts, artists’ diaries and correspondences, art groups’ documentations, records of historical events and debates in both visual image and text, art works, underground publications, exhibit catalogs, etc. A proposed digitizing project of Gao Archive since 2014

Gao and Gao Archive

Gao and Gao Archive

3. An Exploratory Pilot Project (Cont.) complex and challenging a wide range of materials including printed volumes, visual materials, manuscripts, audio recordings, images scatted throughout China and the U.S. legal concerns on ownership funding collaborative work among library, academic department, center, etc. campus-wide departments and units within the library including library IT, archives, technical services, preservation, web service, etc.

THANKS 谢谢 michaeld@pitt.edu haihuiz@pitt.edu