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On-line and Network Data

• Project Name: Electronic Buddhist Archives and the Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library

Project representative:Dr. T. M. Ciolek, Australian National University (Australia)
Dr. Ciolek has been administering, since September 1994, the most comprehensive and best organized network of links to Buddhist-related information on the Web, the Buddhist Studies section of the World Wide Web Virtual Library (WWWVL) and one of its sub-sections, the Zen Buddhism WWW Virtual Library. Since he also handles, in a similar capacity, the Asian Studies WWWVL, there is a deep relation between the two projects. Dr. Ciolek maintains, in relation to this project, an impressive amount of databases, mailing lists, and the Electronic Buddhist Archives (FTP site). He is also deeply concerned with the theory and planning of the development of the Internet in general as a medium for the transmission and storage of scholarly information.
• Project Name: SMART Project and WWW Databases of Chinese Buddhist Texts

Project Representative(s): Christian Wittern, Goettingen University, Germany
Placing Christian's work under the category of "on-line and network" does not come close to telling the story, as he is working on a number of CJK problematic issues related to character codes/availability/interchange etc., which he has come across in the course of his primary work of making Buddhist CJK canonical texts available in digital format. Some of his more recent work includes the development of a digital CJK Buddhist texts catalogdatabase. Christian is looking toward the implementation of the relevant aspects of Unicode, SGML and TEI in the eventual creation of a comprehensive web-accessible database. He has also been working actively in advising other EBTI member groups who are trying to deal with related CJK textual/digital problems. Please be sure to see the summaries of his EBTI presentations, as well as the articles on his web site.
• Project Name: Web Site of the Center for Buddhist Studies at National Taiwan University

Project Representative(s): Profs. Heng Ching Shih and Aming Tu
(Taiwan)
Along with the IRIZ site, one of the most extensive and substantial Buddhist Studies sites on the Web. Although the primary language is Chinese (Big5), the amount of information available in English is also quite extensive. Some of this site's major features are:
 
• Searchable bibliographical database, currently containing 80,000 entries (Chinese and Western) and growing rapidlyl
• Chinese canonical texts
• Sanskrit and Pali learning materials
• Taiwanese Buddhist Newspapers
• Other Buddhist News and Information
Project Name: Buddhism in the Aizu Region: An Internet Project
Project Representative(s): Janet Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Also known as the Aizu History Project the main focus of this work is on the development of a Web site, which attempts to relate a comprehensive history of Japan from the perspective of the Aizu region in Japan, which Prof. Goodwin understands to be in many ways more typical of the whole of Japan than many of the better-known areas such as Tokyo and Kyoto. The reception of this information site has been exceptionally good, and it is being translated into Korean by Ehwa University. In character, this project is quite similar to that of the above-related cultural atlas project, except that it is much more localized in scale.