05 Dec 2002

Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS)
Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Supplied note: "[... A] project aiming at capturing and archiving Internet resources reflecting public discourse in or about China that otherwise would be lost for future research. 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 [Dec 2002 - hl] 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.- hl."
Self-description: "Access to the digital archive is restricted to computers of the Institute of Chinese Studies [at the U. of Heidelberg]. If you want to view any files from outside the institute, please contact the DACHS staff."
Site contents: (1) About DACHS (Introduction, Collection Policy, Legal Issues, Working Routines, Technical Infrastructure, Current Status); (2) Access (Metadata Search; Fulltext Search [under development - HL]; Table of Contents); (3) Publications; (4) Links; (5) Contact; (6) Management.
URL http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Rating not available
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30