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Ling Long Women's Magazine

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Ling long women's magazine, published in Shanghai from 1931 to 1937, was popular during a time of dramatic material, social, and political change in China. Today, the magazine offers researchers a unique glimpse into women's lives in Republican-era (1911-49) Shanghai. This site features Columbia University's collection of Ling long magazine, one of the most complete holdings outside China.

Columbia's online version covers some 244 issues spanning the journal's seven year run, with 14,881 digitized page images, 586 of which were contributed to the project in 2005 by the University of Heidelberg.

The original Ling Long site was developed in 1997 by Rob Cartolano of Columbia's Academic Information Services (now CUIT) and Amy Heinrich, Director of the Starr East Asian Library.  Scanning of Columbia content was managed by the Libraries' Preservation Reformatting Division.  

The Ling Long site was enlarged and enhanced in 2005 by the Libraries Digital Program Division with the assistance of Columbia Digital Knowledge Ventures.


Technical Aspects of the Project

  • The Ling long public web presentation is hosted on Columbia's central Web system.  The site was developed locally at Columbia. Images and XML metadata are accessed via a custom Saxon servlet.

  • The site's content and structural metadata were initially formulated as METS files, which were then parsed into the Saxon XML query processor. Full cataloging for the site is available in Columbia's online catalog at: http://clio.cul.columbia.edu:7018/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=2237557

  • Active Web content is stored on University file servers, fully RAID protected with nightly tape backups.

  • Image master files and metadata are archived on Columbia Libraries' preservation storage system, which provides 4 copies of all archived content, two on spinning disks and two on tape. One disk copy is located in Columbia's machine room, the other at the NYSERNET Data Center in Syracuse. New York. One tape set is stored on site and the other with Iron Mountain, Inc. The risks to this content are essentially nill, since the application can be rebuilt from any of the four storage sources.

  • This collection will be managed prospectively as part of Columbia University Libraries long-term preservation repository.  All master files and metadata will be ingested into our local Fedora repository for long-term rentention and migration into the future.  Columbia is committed to bringing its preservation repository into alignment with national and international standards and best practices for digital preservation.

 

 

 


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