Chinese libraries on the Web

[Jian Liu]

You might want to start your search with:
http://www.cnd.org/WWW-HZ/WWWChinese.html
(This site can't be reached from within China)

There is also a usenet group, alt.chinese.text, where you can post
your questions. It's very active.

Jian
Indiana University Libraries

> 
> In mid-October, I will be going for six weeks to the Fujian Provincial
> Library in Fuzhou, China. This is on a staff exchange agreement.  Among
> other things, I will serve as a resource for that library and regional
> professionals in the area of developing their Internet/WWW activities.
> 
> I'm preparing for the trip, and have two questions I would like to pose
> to the list, since I'm not that knowledgeable about non-Western/Roman
> library automation apps.
> 
>   1) Chinese libraries of course primarily use the Chinese character
> set.   They can get some nice beginner-type freeware, shareware and
> inexpensive database apps and tools, which is of the ASCII persuasion
> and does not support the extended character set. Examples include the
> UNESCO CDS/ISIS freeware opac; the old DOS InMagic Plus, Filemaker Pro,
> etc.
>   Is there any add-on software which will cause these
> ideographically-challeged programs to correctly handle the Chinese
> character set?  I don't mean just display the characters, but hopefully
> allow effective retrieval & data entry operations, database management,
> etc.
> 
>   2) FMOI (For My Own Information) Are there search engines that serve
> or specialize in the Chinese and East Asian Web sites? Or are there
> special tricks to use in the standard ones, that will accomplish the
> same effect. (I'm going to go off right now & read the Alta Vista
> Advanced Search doc file)
> 
> I think the whole list might benefit from this kind of information. But
> if respondents think it's a bit esoteric, respond directly to me, and I
> will summarize for the list.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Cheers,
> -ernest
> 
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