26 Mar 2003

Historical Chinese Language Materials in British Columbia, Canada
Asian Library and the Centre for Chinese Research, University of British Columbia, and David Lam Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Supplied note: "This project is built on a vision of access and preservation of historical Chinese language materials. [...] On the basis of the history of major waves of Chinese settlements across the province, the project identified a total of 29 resource centres along the Gold Rush Trail, the Canadian Pacific Railway, cities and towns on the east coast of Vancouver Island, as well as the Fraser Valley. To date, over 11,000 records from 11 archives, museums and libraries have been either exported or created from scratch and incorporated in the database. All fields in the catalogue of the database are Unicode compatible and searcheable in Chinese characters, English and Pinyin. Full text, whenever available, are captured in the 'Scope and Content' field. Initial evaluation suggests that the software used might also provide a suitable platform for databases in Japanese, Korean or even some of the South Asian vernaculars. Materials added to the database on [the URl below] includes Chinese language manuscripts, newspapers, correspondence, genealogical and family records, business transaction records, association records, certificates, receipts, textbooks, photographs with captions in Chinese, catalogues, books and journals on Chinese-Canadian history and other documents. - ey."
URL http://www.hclmbc.org
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Eleanor Yuen (elyuen[use"@"]interchange.ubc.ca)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30