The topic of talk is "The development of metadata for palmleaf manuscripts in Thailand and Asia".
Dr. Nisachol Chamnongsri is a lecturer at Suranaree University of Technology and currently the head of New Paradigm in the Digital Technology Academic Administration Project (DIGITECH) research department, and the board member of CoE for entrepreneurship. She has more than 10 years of experience in digital libraries development, metadata development, ontology development, information management, knowledge organization, andinformation retrieval.She was a member of academic boards in the development of metadata standards for cultural information and local wisdom,Thai Industrial Standards 2016; organizing committee, workshop chair, and session chair of International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries ICADL 2014 and ICADL 2017;speaker and workshop facilitator at the IFLAPalm Leaf Manuscripts (PLMs)Preservation Workshop: developing metadata standard for PLMs in Asia,by The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) in 2017.She has been a member of the Academic Asset Preservations and Sharing in Southeast Asia,the informal academic consortium developing agreement and platform for sharing information, knowledge and technologies to promotepreserving and sharing academic research and research data within the South-East and East Asia countries, since 2015. Currently, she is finishing significant three research projects: Thailand massive open online course platform phase III, The design and development of creative tourism management model forThai Yuan community in Korat, and the development of Korat health and wellness innovation city as roles of researcher, project leader, and project director. And she has been doing research on health and wellness tourism in Kao Yai National Park areas for two years. Dr. Chamnongsri holds a PhD. In Information Studies from KhonKaen University, Tailand.
Development of Metadata for Palm Leaf Manuscripts
in Thailand and Asia
New Paradigm in the Digital Technology Academic Administration Project (DIGITECH), SUT
School of Information Technology, Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand, nisachol@sut.ac.th
ABSTRACT
The goal of palm leaf manuscripts (PLM)metadata is to facilitate, as effectively as possible, user access to and use of the knowledge recorded on PLMs. At the same time, the schema should serve as a standard information structure to be used in the management of PLMs and other digitized ancient documents. This will also make the linking of Asian cultural heritage and wisdom with those of countries in this region possible via the internet.This topicaims to presentthe use of PLMs metadata schema in working projectsfor the long-term preservation of PLMs, the challenge and constructive solutions, the metadata development methodologiesand the first draft of PLMs metadata core elements from the IFLA PLMs preservation workshop at National Library and Documentation Services Board of Sri Lanka held by IFLA on September 6-7, 2017.