Background Statement
The “National Digital Archives Program”(NDAP) was launched on January 1st, 2002, with the purpose to digitalize important national collections of cultural and historical relics, and to build national digital archives so as to advance humanistic, social, academic, educational, and economical developments. Currently, there are eight collection institutions, which are Academia Historica, Academia Sinica, National Museum of History (NMH), National Museum of Natural Science (NMNS), National Central Library (NCL), National Palace Museum (NPM), National Taiwan University (NTU), and Taiwan Historica. In order that more public and private organizations, as well as teaching and research institutions have the opportunities to participate in the NDAP, the Program Office also solicits from the public a number of thematic projects whose main work is digital contents implementation, so that those who are interested and capable may contribute their efforts to the program and share their experience. The work descriptions in this project are as follows:

• to draw up the project solicitation forms;
• to organize project solicitation and to assist National Science Council review applications;
• to provide all participating institutions help in attending “thematic groups” forums;
• to assist all participating institutions finish the implementation of digital data smoothly;
• to manage and assess the projects schedules; and
• to evaluate projects effects.

Project Content
This project’s primary goal is to subsidize and assist institutions that are interested in participating in content development of digital archives, and in establishing digital databases for all kinds of collections. All public and private, academic and research institutions with precious historical cultural relics (including calligraphy and paintings, books, documents, maps, rubbings, artifacts, etc) or data (such as zoological, botanical, and geological specimen, music, images, photographs, etc), are entitled to apply for subsidies.