“A better course is to develop and nurture excellent blogs, with multimedia capabilities and guaranteed preservation of the postings.”
- Marcus Banks
Last two weeks, before I left for VALA 2008 conference in Melbourne. My team did a presentation on build a database for “Accessing The Malay World.” Currently, many libraries in Singapore do not have the accessed to any Malay Database. My academic library, we have a number of Chinese databases:
If there are, they are the commercialise one. One of my ambition is to build a database from an opensource development. Such as using the platform of blog. BTW, the prototype is already up and running. Meanwhile, I left you guys to ponder on the slide by Marcus …
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It’s good that you all are workingtowards building a database for Malay literature. We need this to archive our fruits of our talents lest they will just go down the drain.
Great effort in making THE start!