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perceptual data and graphics processors and other computing platforms promote the rapid
development of AI technologies represented by deep neural network, which strides across the
technology gap from science to application. AI technologies such as image classification, speech
recognition, knowledge interlocution, man-machine games and unmanned vehicles have made
technological breakthroughs to become “practicable and handy” from “impracticable and clumsy”,
and ushered in a new upsurge of explosive growth, which lays the bedrock for the realization
of the smart society and attracts much attention from governments around the world. Singapore
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issued the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy , which took AI, big data, virtual media and
IoT as the cutting-edge technologies that the country would make significant investment. The UK
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released the Artificial Intelligence Sector Deal to plan the development of AI key fields such
as the research, application and the construction of big data infrastructure. In 2017, the Chinese
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government issued the Next-generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan and the Three-
year Action Plan for Promoting the Development of the Next-generation of Artificial Intelligence
Industry (2018-2020) , proposing to promote the integrated application of intelligent products in
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education, culture, tourism and other fields.
(3) The highlight of data resource values. In recent years, the big data industry has been
booming, and integrated application has been deepening, and the digital economy has been
improving in quantity and quality, which has played a strengthening role in the innovation-
driven and integration-driven economy and society. In 2019, the added value of China’s digital
economy reached 35.8 trillion, accounting for 36.2% of GDP . In 2020, The State Council issued
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the Opinions on Building a More Perfect Market-based Allocation System and Mechanism of
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Factors , which regarded data, land, labor, capital and technology as important issues of future
reform and proposed to accelerate the cultivation of data factor market and enhance the value of
social data resources. In the future, the role of data in enlarging, superimposing and multiplying
economic and social development will be further highlighted. New industries, forms of business
and models will continue to emerge.
To provide more convenient, efficient and smart public services is a necessary part of the
construction of a smart society. As an indispensable component of the public service system, the
public cultural service stands at a new historical juncture.

2 The development of librarianship has entered the window period of smart
transformation

Libraries have always been active advocates of new technology and beneficiaries of technological
progress. Since the 1990s, the Chinese library community has seized the opportunity of the
digitalization and networking of global information infrastructure, timely promoted the research
and practice of digital libraries, and built digital library service networks with unified standards,
fast transmission and extensive coverage in education, science and technology, culture and so