A Global Multimedia Repository Concept for Digital Silk Roads Studies

In addition, large digital libraries become available and huge amounts of multimedia documents are accessible over the Internet with the increase of communications bandwidth and storage capacities. By mainly referring to our ongoing project called “Digital Silk Roads”, this paper presents the concept and some issues to utilize advanced information technology for safeguarding, preserving, revitalizing and diffusing information on our cultural heritage so as to enhance cultural diversity in cyberspace and pass on such heritage to the future generation.