Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 279.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:08:17 +0100
From: JoDI Announcements <jodi@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: JoDI: Chinese Collections in the Digital Library special
issue
We are pleased to announce a new issue, and a response to a paper
announced in the the previous issue.
Journal of Digital Information announces
A SPECIAL ISSUE on Chinese Collections in the Digital Library
(Volume 3, issue 2, October 2002)
Special issue Editor: Brian Bruya, University of Hawai'i, USA
From the special issue editorial
"A floppy disk can store about 500,000 Chinese characters--compare that to
an ancient bamboo strip measuring about the same in area but maxing out at
about 28 characters. Text processing has come a long way. Still, some of
those bamboo strips have been dug out of the ground and are still legible
after 23 centuries. What are the chances of a floppy making it through two
millennia in the dirt, or of there being a device around that could then
decipher it? There is still much to be done in the field of text
processing, and the articles here, with their emphasis on technical
achievement and XML deployment, are samples of some recent work that
applies advanced computing techniques to pre-modern Chinese texts."
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/editorial
The issue includes the following papers:
C. Ho
CHANT (CHinese ANcient Texts): a comprehensive database of all ancient
Chinese texts up to 600 AD
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/Ho/
M. Mohr
Linking Chan/Seon/Zen Figures and Their Texts: Problems and Developments in
the Construction of a Relational Database
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/Mohr/
C. Muller, M. Beddow
Moving into XML Functionality: The Combined Digital Dictionaries of
Buddhism and East Asian Literary Terms
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/Muller/
C. Wittern
Chinese Buddhist texts for the new Millenium The Chinese Buddhist
Electronic Text Association (CBETA) and its Digital Tripitaka
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i02/Wittern/
SEE ALSO
from Volume 3, issue 1, this previously unannounced Letter
N. Walsh
XML: One Input--Many Outputs
http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v03/i01/Walsh/
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