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World Heritage Memory Net (WHMNet) (http://whmnet.org) was officially launched with the URL of http://whmnet.org for public use on April 29, 2011, see the UNESCO/WHC official News for English version at: http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/740 or French version at: http://whc.unesco.org/fr/actualites/740. This mega partnership project with UNESCO/World Heritge Center provides instant access to multimedia and multilingual knowledge base of 911 world heritage properties of 151 countries using the much modified and expanded multimedia and multilingual system of Global Memory Net which was launched in 2007 and has a new interface recently. |
04/29/2011 |
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NTHU Memory Net (http://memorynet.nthu.edu.tw) was officially launched at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) with the URL of http://memorynet.nthu.edu.tw for public use on April 23, 2011 in celebration of NTHU's Centennial. NTHU Memory Net has been directed by Prof. Ching-chih Chen in collaboration with NTHU. It utilizes the multimedia and multilingual system used for World Heritage Memory Net, a knowledge base of 911 world heritage properties of 151 countries using the much modified and expanded multimedia and multilingual system of Global Memory Net which was launched in 2007 and has a new interface recently. |
04/23/2011 |
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Professor Chen delivered an invited speech on April 22nd, 2011 as part of her “World Cultural Heritage Is One Click Away” Lecture Series at the National Central Library, Taipei, Taiwan. The title of her talk was “From Global Memory Net to World Heritage Memory Net: A New Digital Model for Exploring Our Amazing World, History, and Culture.” |
04/22/2011 |
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Professor Chen delivered an invited speech on April 21st, 2011 as part of her “World Cultural Heritage Is One Click Away” Lecture Series at the National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. The title of her talk was “From Global Memory Net to World Heritage Memory Net: A New Digital Model for Exploring Our Amazing World, History, and Culture.” |
04/21/2011 |
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Professor Chen gave an invited talk entitled "World Heritage Memory Net and its System's Potential for Taiwan's Indigenous Cultural Heritage," when she visited the San-di-men Cultural Park of the National Council of Indigenous Populations of Taiwan in Pingtong, Taiwan on April 16, 2011. |
04/16/2011 |
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Professor Chen was a keynote speaker at the International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities 2010, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. The title of her November 30, 2010 keynote speech was “The Integration of Technology, Content and Use in Digital Humanities: A new digital model for exploring our amazing world, history, and culture.” |
11/30/2010 |
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Professor Chen delivered an invited speech on November 29, 2010 at the Council of Indigenous Peoples of the Republic of Taiwan, Taipei. Her talk was entitled “World heritage is one click away: Potentials for Taiwan’s indigenous culture and heritage.” |
11/29/2010 |
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As part of her Honorary Chair Professorship activities in connection with her work on the NTHU Memory Net, Professor Chen gave several talks on the system and features of Global Memory Net and World Heritage Memory Net at the National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan on November 20, 2010. |
11/20/2010 |
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Professor Chen delivered a keynote speech entitled “Opportunities are everywhere! Do you see them?” at the New England Taiwan Association of University Alumni Presidents Meeting, Suffolk University Law School on September 25, 2010. |
09/25/2010 |
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Professor Chen delivered an invited speech on July 5, 2010 as part of her “World Cultural Heritage Is One Click Away” Lecture Series at the National Central Library, Taipei, Taiwan. The title of her talk was “World heritage is one click away, so can and must your treasure!” |
07/05/2010 |
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As part of her Lecture Series entitled “World Cultural Heritage Is One Click Away,” Professor Chen delivered a keynote speech at the Annual Conference of the International Relations Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), Washington DC. Her June 26, 2010 keynote was entitled “New challenges of academic libraries in the information age: How to not just survive but thrive in the digital age!” |
06/26/2010 |
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The US Department of State invited Professor Chen to deliver a solo Digital Video Conference (DVC) with the US Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on June 9, 2010. Her DVC presentation was entitled "New Challenges of Public Libraries in the Information Age: How to not just survive but thrive in the digital age!” |
06/09/2010 |
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Professor Chen delivered an invited speech entitled “World cultural heritage is one click away, so can world agricultural heritage,” in the same Lecture Series at the National Agricultural Library, Silver Spring, MD on March 26, 2010. |
03/26/2010 |
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Professor Chen delivered an invited speech on March 12, 2010 entitled “Technology enabling and universal access to world heritage: Challenges and potentials,” in the same Lecture Series at the National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. |
03/12/2010 |
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Professor Chen delivered an invited speech of the same title in the same Lecture Series at the National Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan on March 11, 2010. |
03/11/2010 |
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Professor Chen was a special invited speaker at the National Center for Taiwan Traditional Arts, Yilan, Taiwan on March 9, 2010. She kicked off her "World Cultural Heritage is One Click Away" Lecture Series with a talk entitled “A new look of culture and technology integration: The cases of Global Memory Net and World Heritage Memory Net.” |
03/09/2010 |
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Professor Chen was the keynote speaker at the International Conference on Arts Venue Planning and Management, Kaohsiung, Taiwan on November 9, 2009. Her talk was entitled “Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries: The world and universal access.” |
11/09/2009 |
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Professor Chen was the keynote speaker on August 7, 2009 at the 9th Emerging Information & Technology Conference: Advancing Technology Innovations through Collaboration, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 6-7, 2009. Her keynote topic was “Broad-Based Societal Implications of IT Development: A case-presentation on the convergence of IT and large-scale digital content on world culture and heritage.” |
08/07/2009 |
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Professor Chen delivered an invited talk , “World Heritage Memory Net: Instant Access to 145 Countries’ 878 World Heritage Sites with Cutting-edge Technologies,” at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Library, Beijing, China, on July 21, 2009. |
07/21/2009 |
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Professor Chen delivered an invited talk , “World Heritage Memory Net: Instant Access to 145 Countries’ 878 World Heritage Sites with Cutting-edge Technologies,” on July 6, 2009 at the Sichuan University Library, Chengdu, China. |
07/06/2009 |