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ChinaResourceNews No.11 (5 Dec 2002)
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Dear colleagues,
we would like to introduce our latest project aiming at capturing and
archiving Internet resources reflecting public discourse in or about China
that otherwise would be lost for future research.
DACHS - Digital Archive for Chinese Studies
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/
In contrast to the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org), DACHS should
be able to more flexibly respond to events and issues relevant to the
Chinese society.
Although the organisational framework of DACHS (based on the OAIS model) is
still under development, download activities started in August 2001. So far
we have collected about 375,000 files roughly corresponding to 5.1 GB, and
created some 600 metadata entries for access and administrative purposes. The
collection includes Web sites, e-journals, films, snapshots of discussion
boards, as well as hundreds of single documents. Topics covered are the 16th
Party Congress of the CCP, China's and Taiwan's accession to the WTO, the
September 11 terror attack, Falun gong, and many others.
The digital archive is part of ChinaResource.org, a project of the Institute
of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, financed by the Alfried Krupp
von Bohlen und Halbach-Foundation.
For further information about DACHS, its collection, theoretical framework
and points of access, please take a look at the project's homepage at:
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/
Good luck and have fun exploring DACHS,
Jennifer Gross and Hanno Lecher
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With kind regards,
Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask])
ChinaResource.org -- Content manager
http://chinaresource.org
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