Chinadotcom's subsidiary Beijing Digital Ark has formed a
partnership with China state-owned China Digital Library to set up a
Digital Library System.
The system is to link up libraries and archives across the nation over
the Internet, and is chinadotcom's second Internet venture in China.
China Digital Library is one of the largest libraries in Asia with more
than 22 million books and other resources, including audio, video,
pictures and graphics.
The Chinese government is expected to be one of the major users of the
service.
The system platform is to facilitate multimedia information processing,
storage, search and distribution.
Peter Yip, CEO of chinadotcom, said the digital library could also be
used for e-commerce as "financial institutions that require a great deal
of documentation such as commercial banks, insurance companies and
brokerage firms will likely come to depend upon this system".
