Digital Resources of CADAL: Construction, Utilization and Promotion

摘要

Construction of digital library is the product of currently vigorous development of computer science and quick popularity of network information technology. In order to create a large-scale digital library, Chinese government invested a key national project called as CADAL in 2003. After two building stages, CADAL had been successfully constructed. At present, nearly 2.5 million digitized books and other information resources are available in CADAL. This paper attempts to introduce the general situation and resource utilization of CADAL. To achieve the goal of CADAL project which is to realize the co-construction and sharing of global digital resources, this paper proposes several strategies for construction of CADAL, such as speeding the link among all members of university libraries and the CADAL central system, improving the website function, and strengthening the propagation of CADAL resources.