18 Mar 2009

DDBC Place [Chinese historical geography] Authority Database
Dharma Drum Buddhist College (DDBC), Taipei, Taiwan.
Self-description:
"Information on place names from Buddhist sources with latitude and longitude. [Downloadable Google Earth files with the places' coordinates] KML [and real-time online Google maps] output."
URL http://authority.ddbc.edu.tw/place/
[DDBC Place Authority Database is is still in the early phase of development. It's current interface is in a mix of Chinese and English. The site, at present, has no documentation or explanatory notes attached to it. However, even in its embroynic form it is a very impressive and very promising research tool. The author of the site, Dr Marcus Bingenheimer - MA (Sinology) and PhD (History of Religions) from Wuerzburg University and an MA (Communication Studies) from Nagoya University - is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum Buddhist College in Taiwan, where he supervises various projects concerning the digitization of Buddhist culture. - ed.]
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* 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