Islandora Webinar: Highlighting CUHK Chinese digital collections

"Learn more about the launch of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Digital Repository, the first known Islandora repository in Asia, on April 27 at 10 am EDT. The webinar will feature a presentation and Q&A session with Louisa Lam, Head, Research Support and Digital Initiatives and Jeff Liu, Digital Services Librarian at the CUHK Library. The CUHK Library has curated a collection of over five million digital objects in the past 20 years.  It features Chinese literature, culture, arts, politics, society and religion.  Until recently, the collection was stored in a broad range of different systems, complicating the discovery of these precious digital assets. In 2015, librarians at CUHK embarked on a project to find a permanent, single platform for their digital content.  Objectives of the project included enhanced discoverability, multi-language support (Chinese, Japanese & Korean) and custom development capability to modify display and viewing features that would showcase Chinese literature in its true form. Islandora met all the functional requirements and more, including support for digital humanities projects and access to a user-driven open source software community ..."