That’s TDAL? What ...?

That’s NPM one.

Is this the same website?

Always?

Who is hosting this, the Ministry of Culture?

Oh, interesting.

I think so, too. I also had that silo feeling again, when me and my wife tried to work through it.

That was also part of it, I think.

I thought it was extremely interesting. I told my colleagues about this, and I’ve been trying to follow it up. Now, it seems their website is hosted from Academia Sinica. IHowever, it seems to me, it’s not very much updated recently - is it still active?

I think it started back in 2001, and it was a very pioneering project, because at some point, up to 150 museums, libraries, universities, cinemateques, and film archives were involved in this digitization project.

Very good. I’ve been assessing various digital archive projects around the world. I was very fascinated by TELDAP, or the Taiwanese e-Learning and Digital Archive Project.

He says, "If you meet Audrey Tang, can you ask her, why it is so cumbersome to expand a business, set-up a new business or buy a new office, one has to go through a bunch of access points and databases to fill in a variety of forms and applications, ...

How does your practice affect everyday practices and routines in Taiwan? For example: My wife is from Taiwan, so I go here often. Her brother is a businessman in Yuanlin.

How does this work, really? Are you the alibi of openness and freedom of expression?

Are they usually Taiwanese, or foreigners?

This is open also?

Here, in this building?

Thank you.

Could I take a picture of it?

I saw your blog, but I didn’t find this page.

They are done here, mostly, these events?

Exactly. How can you fulfill other people’s ambitions through the structure you’re working in now?

That’s interesting.

To start, what’s your ambitions and dreams with your job?

I have some specific questions concerning my research project, on how we look at things, and maybe some viewpoints.

Here today, I represent them, and I told them I would hopefully be able to meet you. They’re very curious and very interested in both your role, what a person like you are able to do within a government structure, so to speak, and how this set-up can also possibly ...

We look into the transformation of culture and media industries in Norway after digitization, as we call it, in a broadest possible sense. We investigate the book industry, the newspaper industry, the book industry, libraries and museums, and finally the cinema industry. We’re a team of about 20 researchers.

Should I start? My name is Eivind Røssaak. I work as a researcher at the National Library of Norway. I think we’re one of the few national libraries in the world to have a distinguished research section. We take part in national research projects in Norway. The current project is ...