Digitizing Korean Rare Books at the East Asian Library, UC Berkeley

버클리대 동아시아도서관 소장 한국 고전적 자료의 해제 및 디지털화

March 25, 2010

고려대학교 민족문화연구원 (Research Institute of Korean Studies)

Collection(문고명 ) Titles(종수 ) Volumes(책수 )

Asami(아사미 ) 986 4013

Richmond(리치몬드 ) 1224 2852

Total(계 ) 2210 6865

1) The Amount of Korean Rare Books at UCB

*estimated more than 1 million pages approxi-mately

1. Outline( 자료개관 )

* These collections are stored in the C. V. Starr East Asian Library all to-gether, since after March 2008

2) Grouping, according to the quality

Collection( 문고명 ) S A B C

Asami(아사미 ) 345 163 105 373Richmond(리치몬

드 )144 113 313 654

Total(계 ) 489 276 418 1027

* StandardsS : manuscript, unique, rubbingsA : different versions which have great valueB : found same versions in KoreaC : easily found same versions in Korea

1. Outline( 자료개관 )

3) Workflow

1. 자료 개관 (Outline)

Catalogu-ing

Basic De-scription

Detailed Description

Digitizing Rare Materials

Electronic Database

RIKS

UCB & IA

2) Creating Richmond collection catalogue

1) Revising Asami collection catalogue

(1) The first catalogue was published in 1995 by the Institute of Bibliography of Korea (2) RIKS corrected errors and investigated the unknown parts

(1) RIKS researched 1,408 titles of Richmond collection in 2007 (2) RIKS catalogued 1,224 titles excluding reproductions and photo-copied versions

2. Cataloguing( 서지목록 작성 )

2) Goal: Providing general information, Wakening the reader’s interest

1) Subject: Entire titles in EAL

3) Contents

(1) Writer’s simple biography

(2) Introduction to the book

(3) Introducing same versions in do-mestic

3. Basic Description( 기본서지 작성 )

2) Goal: Providing detailed information, Wakening academic in-terest

1) Subject: S and A group, 765 titles

3) Contents

4. Detailed Description( 상세서지 작성 )

(1) Writer’s detailed biography(2) Detailed Explanation and comments about it’s con-tents (3) Estimation of it’s value

1) Subject: S and A group, 765 titles

2) Digitizing materials and mounting the digitized materials on the Internet both in UCB and Korea Univ.

3) Digitization work is being done by the Internet Archive now

5. Digitization( 원문이미지 구축 )

5. Current Status( 자료 구축 현황 )

Cataloguing Basic Description

Detailed De-scription

Digitization

Scheduled 2210 2210 765 765Completed 2210 2210 220 87

100% 100% 28.7% 11.3%

*Duration : 16 months(Nov. 2008 – Feb. 2010)