1. ENHANCING ACCESS TO MALAY STUDIES THROUGH ATMA’S MALAY CIVILIZATION PORTAL ZAWIYAH BABA Principal Research Fellow Institute of the Malay World & Civilisation (ATMA) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia International Conference on Convergence of Libraries, Archives & Museums , India International Centre, New Delhi, February 15 – 17, 2011.

3. Malay the National Language as medium of instruction

4. One of 4 research universities in Malaysia

5. 13 Faculties, 14 Institutes, 13 Centres

7. Established in 1973 as IBBKM – Institute for Malay Language, Culture and Literature

9. Archeology, Culture & Visual Arts

10. Theory Construction & Malay Epistemology

12. Senior Research Fellows (Assoc. Professors)

13. Research Fellows (Lecturers)

14. Social Research Officers

15. Science Officer

16. Research Assistants

18. 6 sources of research funding

20. Developed into a portal in 2003 with DAGS Fund from Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation

21. Demonstrator Application Grant Scheme (DAGS)

22. First on-line digital database on Malay world studies

24. Funding by MOSTI for Roll-out of portal

25. Project cost RM1.47m (USD500,000.00)

26. HCL Technologies as Technology partner

27. 14 month project period (Dec 2009 – February 2011)

28. Upgrading and improvement of portal

29. Development of Content

31. Content & data scattered

32. Portal content to be searchable from google search window

33. Text search on images a requirement

34. Content security

35. Easy administrative framework

36. Bi-lingual policy

38. Reduce IT dependency, empowers non-technical users to publish content without knowledge of HTML

40. Automated workflow for content review and approval process

41. More interactive portal by implementing blogs, reviews, chat rooms & discussion format

44. ADAT PERPATIH (CUSTOMARY LAW)

46. PANTUN BABA CINA ( PANTUNS OF STRAITS BORN CHINESE)

47. PERIBAHASA MELAYU (MALAY PROVERBS)

48. SENI UKIR KAYU MELAYU ( MALAY ART OF TRADITIONAL WOODCARVING)

49. SARI ONLINE (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE MALAY WORLD & CIVILISATION)

51. Search terms in Malay, & English

52. 217 specific articles on leadership in the Malay World in English

53. 98 specific articles in Malay/Indonesian

55. Search by subject

56. Actual proverb mostly does not contain the term leadership but describes good or bad leaders & leadership in Malay society

58. Search terms in Malay as database is in the Malay language

59. Importance and criteria of good leadership in the Malay world emphasised through folk literature

61. Most of the content in video and audio & still images

63. LEADERSHIP IN ADAT PERPATIH Leaders are reminded that they are not born, but Grow as they have been planted; High of standing from being respected; Prosper from being cultivated; Dignified from acclaim. Leaders did not descend from the sky, Nor emerge from the earth, As such, leaders must be close to the people they lead

65. Nearness without intermediary

66. Bamboo plants and the river bank (inter-dependency & co-operation)

67. Like nail and flesh

69. Items are in the form of articles, books on Malay culture & pantuns by TenasEffendy

72. Portal provide a wealth of information on Malay studies which can be searched by multiple approaches