Apart from the ancient ceramics collected in museums, kiln sites from all over Taiwan are continuously creating ceramics with local features. While there is a need for ancient ceramic to be preserved via digital archives, the need is greater for ceramics with local features to be digitized to enable the world to comprehend the subtleties of the traditional techniques as well as the rich creativity of Taiwanese people. The purpose of this guideline is to integrate prior digitization experiences of domestic institutions; generalize reference guidelines for digitization work; and provide a set of standards for other institutions with ceramic collections when they join the ranks of digital archives, .....

Ancient Chinese and Western books utilized string as binding material. In China, book pages, along with same-size front and back covers, were sewed together using strings. This method made it easier to browse a book and harder for a book to fall apart. The string-sewing method became common from the middle period of Ming Dynasty on. The “string-bound ancient books” referred to in the guideline are hand-written or printed books dated before 1911. Since these books are made of paper and string, they can easily be damaged and embrittled by natural disasters or over usage. It is all the more important to digitize them. .....