• Overview

  • Introduction
  • History & Development
  • Organization & Responsibilities
  • Objectives
  • Open Requests for Proposals Projects

• Division Projects

  • Taiwan Digital Archives Expansion Project
  • Research and Development for Digital Archives and e-Learning Technologies Project
  • Core Platforms for Digital Contents Project
  • Academic and Social Promotions and Applications for Digital Archives and e-Learning Project
  • Industrial Development and Promotion of Digital Archives and e-Learning Project
  • Digital Education and e-Learning Project
  • e-Learning for Chinese Language Project
  • International Collaboration and Promotion of Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Project

• Institutional Projects

  • Academia Sinica
  • Academia Historica
  • Taiwan Historica
  • National Palace Museum
  • National Museum of Natural Science (Ministry of Education)
  • National Central Library (Ministry of Education)
  • Chinese Taipei Film Archive (Government Information Office, Executive Yuan)
  • National Archives Administration
  • the Council for Hakka Affairs (CHA)
  • Industrial Development Bureau Ministry of Economic Affairs
  • Department of Industrial Technology
  • Ministry of Education
  • Council of Labor Affairs(CLA)
  • Central Personnel Administration, Executive Yuan (named CPA hereafter)
  • Council for Cultural Affair, Taiwan
  • Overseas Compatriot Affairs Commission

National Museum of Natural Science (Ministry of Education)

Ongoing expansion of the Natural History of Taiwan digital collection and knowledge base project

Since 2001, when the National Museum of Natural Science began its involvement in the first stage of the Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program, the Museum has successfully completed the digitalization of Museum collection resources that are either unique or of particular significance for Taiwan, and which possess significant educational, research or economic value, in 28 different disciplines within the four fields of zoology, botany, geology and anthropology. The digitalization of these resources has facilitated their use in the dissemination of knowledge, in education, and in the telling of important narratives. The Museum’s digital collections now include a wealth of research resources in the natural sciences and in the humanities, including multimedia databases, specimen collections, collection item knowledge bases and learning resource archives, and are being leveraged to develop added-value applications in the form of displays, educational activities, and entertainment/leisure activities, etc. By establishing natural science and humanities “online museum” websites, together with a children’s “online museum,” the National Museum of Natural Science has been able to share these resources and knowledge with the general public. The Museum has continued to participate in the second stage of the Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program, which began in 2007. Besides continuing to expand the content of the Natural History of Taiwan and Humanities knowledge bases, through the ongoing digitalization of resources from the Museum’s collections that are either unique or of particular significance for Taiwan, the digitalization of which was not completed in the first stage of the Program, the Museum has also been working to create inter-disciplinary natural science and humanities knowledge bases and knowledge networks, so that the Museum can establish itself as a world-renowned center for the development of educational and research resources relating to the natural history of Taiwan in all of its aspects (biological, zoological and human). To bring about the achievement of the Museum’s educational objectives with respect to its digital collections, the Museum has been working to transform the results of its digital collection activities into materials that schools can use in extension programs, and into resources for lifelong learning by ordinary members of the public. The aim is to provide tailor-made services for ordinary citizens, researchers, teachers and students, together with the establishment of community-based portal sites. In line with the objective of establishing a sustainable development model, the Museum has been promoting the integration of the physical and virtual museums, and has also been working to integrate natural history and humanities digital collection and knowledge resources both within and outside the Museum, to facilitate the development of teaching and learning resources for natural science and humanities education in primary schools and junior and senior high schools. By leveraging the three million visitors that come to the National Museum of Natural Science every year and the Museum’s links with approximately 4,000 schools throughout Taiwan, the Museum is aiming to establish a firm foundation for the ongoing development of natural science and humanities education in Taiwan. Responding to the emergence of the knowledge economy and society’s changing needs, the Museum has been actively promoting the commercialization of its digital collection activities, with the aim of developing a range of value-added digital content and innovative products with significant economic value. At the same time, the Museum has responded to the growing internationalization of the digital collection sector by leveraging international education and academic collaboration and exchange networks and international promotion and marketing networks to make the results of the Museum’s digital collections initiatives available throughout the Chinese-speaking world, and throughout the globe.