China and the West1245-2000

Database:China and the West

Cultural Relations between China and the West

1245-2000

Anne-Marie Werner, Wolfgang Behr(University of Zurich)

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OVERVIEWProject created by: Mrs. Anne-Marie Werner Initiated in 2003Supported by the University of ZurichFree access: http://idoasdb.unizh.ch/oas/

Continually expanded and updatedMain GUI & data language, so far: GermanSearch results can be collected online and exported as PDF files

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THEMATIC SCOPE Information on any conceivable topic relating to cultural / intellectual / religious forms of contact and exchange between China and the West

Main thematic areas: missionary history, gene-ral and disciplinary history (history of sinolo-gy), travel and legation accounts, German lan-guage literature, philosophy, art, and history of science

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MAIN SOURCE LANGUAGES

GermanEnglishFrench ItalianSpanishPortugueseChinese

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SOURCESThorough utilisation of printed bibliographies and reference works

Regular checking of current printed publica-tions on a particular topic or author

Archival materials (ca. 100 archives accessed so far; transcription, edition of acquired data)

Use of bibliographies, library catalogues, source materials, scholarship available online

Support from specialists worldwideDirect collection of sinological CVs through cor-respondance

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CURRENT STATISTICS (as of 10/2008)

Roughly 5.800 working hrs. investedPrintout version runs to ca. 7.300 pp.19.000 bibliographical entries21.000 chronological entries9.400 biographical entries (of which some 850 pertaining to Western sinologists)

ca. 1.200 titles (books, journal articles etc.) scoured as sources

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TECHNICAL BACKGROUND

three components: database, online applica-tion, administrative application

MySQL® relational database, ca. 40 tablesthree main organizing elements: chronology entries, documents (bibliography), entities (persons)

quintessentially open, i.e. it is possible to host additional (but separated) projects within the same installation

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TECHNICAL BACKGROUND (c’td.)

Administrative application runs as Javascript® with a GUI to enter data, and for certain admin tasks

Online application written in Java®, as a web application

Running on Tomcat® (open-source application server)

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SEARCH OPTIONS

GlobalChronologyBibliographyPerson

Combined searches, filters over search results

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COMPILATION PROCESSSelection of a particular author or scholarSystematic collection of biographical information, primary and secondary sources by/about him/her

Complete browsing/excerption of all pertinent materials

Cross-checking of data and factual information (e.g. geographical or personal names in non-standard transcriptions etc.)

Chronological rearrangement of the dataChecking for availability of Chinese translations

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II.UTILIZING THE DATABASE

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Main page

toggle interfacelanguage

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Search page

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A sample bibliography result page: Nietzsche

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A sample CV result page