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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Jan 2004
Vol. 11, No. 1 (205)

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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 8
Entries rejected: 8
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14 Jan 2004
5star
Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
Distributed, Australia
Supplied note: "PARADISEC is a cross-institutional collaborative project for digital archiving and access to Australian researchers’ field recordings of endangered languages and musics of the Asia-Pacific region. It is hosted by the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University. - nt."
Self-description; "Australia lies within a region of great linguistic and cultural diversity. Over 2000 of the world's 6000 different languages are spoken in Australia, the South Pacific Islands (including around 900 languages in New Guinea alone) and Southeast Asia. Within the next century this number is likely to drop to a few hundred. The majority of these 2000 languages and their associated cultural expressions such as music are very poorly documented. Even in those languages that have begun to be documented many of the most developed cultural expressions (such as the dense and highly allusive language used in song) have never been studied.
PARADISEC (Pacific And Regional Archive for DIgital Sources in Endangered Cultures) offers a facility for digital conservation and access for endangered materials from the Pacific region, defined broadly to include Oceania and East and Southeast Asia. At present no such facility exists, and our research group is examining feasible models to ensure that the archive can provide access to interested communities, and conforms with emerging international standards for digital archiving.
In 2003 we aim to establish a framework for accessioning, cataloguing, and digitising audio, text and visual material, and preserving digital copies. The primary focus of this initial stage is safe preservation of material that would otherwise be lost, especially field tapes from the 1950s and 1960s."
Site contents: Data & Equipment (Data Preservation, Information discovery, Intellectual property issues, Cultural renewal, Technicalities, Recording Equipment); Services (Digitisation of audio and material, CD production. Training in the documentation techniques of recording, data management, and data linkage. Safe backup of digital data); Events; Future Directions; Deposit/Access; Profile; Links (Digitisation and Digital links, Pacific Languages and Resources, Digital Image and Video Collections, Endangered music and languages, Archives and Archiving, Linguistics Software, Annotation, Dictionaries, Metadata, Audio Preservation, Restoration and Access to Recordings, Digitisation and Audio Equipment, Software); Contact; Downloads (the PARADISEC access form, the PARADISEC deposit form, an information form for Depositors, the PARADISEC metadata set, PARADISEC information leaflet, the PARADISEC PowerPoint Presentation, Dr Linda Barwick's paper on PARADISEC from the 2003 OZeCulture Conference, PARADISEC's public profile document).
URL http://paradisec.org.au
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/paradisec.org.au
Link reported by: Nick Thieberger (nt@paradisec.org.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Documents/Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - 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

07 Jan 2004
3star
English Chinese Glossary of Computer and Network Communications Terms
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK, China
Supplied note: "A very useful English-Chinese list of computer and networking terminology. Although far from complete it is much more useful than the outdated "Intelligent Database for Standard Chinese Computer Terminology" (http://ccts.cs.cuhk.edu.hk/) by the Hong Kong Computer Society and was originally set up to incoporate especially those words not included there.
Contents: Alphabetically ordered word-list on one single page, English-Chinese, also including variants for Hong Kong and Taiwan. - Matthias Arnold."
URL http://ihome.ust.hk/~lbsun/terms.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [due to technical problems at www.archive.org presence/absence of the archival copy of the site in question could not be ascertained at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Matthias Arnold - Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

07 Jan 2004
3star
Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon into Western Languages
Digital Buddhist Library and Museum, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Self-description: "This is a working bibliography of translations from the Chinese Canon with the aim of later inputting these to enable parallel reading of the original and the translation. Generally, I have limited it to translations that were done from the Chinese, or with the help of a Chinese version (in case of doubt they were included). Translations from languages other than Chinese were in principle not included or mentioned only in passim. As for target languages, 'western' means every European language. A bibliography of translations into Japanese, Korean, Tibetan or modern Chinese, though of course desirable, does so far exceed our resources. The biggest gaps are in Chan/Zen-related texts, translations done in the nineties, and translations that appeared as articles."
The bibliography is compiled by Marcus Bingenheimer Last update on February 2002. - ed. "The translations are sorted by Taisho number, Chinese characters and Pinyin are also given. This site is part of the 'CBS Comprehensive Online Buddhist Resources' (http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/) [...] . - Matthias Arnold."
URL http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-MISC/101819.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [due to technical problems at www.archive.org presence/absence of the archival copy of the site in question could not be ascertained at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Matthias Arnold - Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

06 Jan 2004
4star
E-Tutor for the Sanskrit
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Supplied note: "I am writing to draw your attention to a tutor for the Sanskrit Language that a student of mine and I have created. The software is freely downloadable from our website [see below - ed.].
The version which is presented at this time is intended for IBM PCs under Windows; but since the package has been created in Java - a platform-neutral programming language - a little modification will enable it to be run on any type of computer that can be used to surf the web. (The only reason why I cannot at this time provide a version for the Apple, or other type of computer, is because I don't have access to any but IBM PCs.)
The package is not quite complete, yet. At this time we are offering four Chapters and a section on diacritics; but more will shortly be added. (Even this means 1.5 million lines of code, however!) I will be grateful if you can visit the website, download the tutor, and give me the benefit of your opinion. - sk."
Site contents: About; Chapter Previews; Introduction; Vowels; Consonants; Conjuncts; Word Building; Sandhi; The Sanskrit; Verbs; Declensions; Special Cases; Simple Sentences; Credits; Download the Software
[A specialist web site with a freely downloadable software - ed.]
URL http://www.sanskrit-lamp.org
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Dr. Sudhir Kaicker (sudhir_kaicker@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Resource
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

06 Jan 2004
5star
Out of the Ashes: Destruction and Reconstruction of East Timor
The ANU E Press, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "James J. Fox and Dionisio Babo Soares (eds) 2003. Out of the Ashes: Destruction and Reconstruction of East Timor. Published by the ANU E Press. The Australian National University. Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Email: anuepress@anu.edu.au. Web: http://epress.anu.edu.au. Previously published by Crawford House Publishing Pty Ltd. Bathurst 2795 New South Wales, Australia.
National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry. Out of the Ashes: The Destruction and Reconstruction of East Timor. New ed. ISBN 0 9751229 1 6 ISBN 0 9751229 0 8 (Online document). 1. East Timor - Politics and government. I. Fox, James J., 1940- . II. Soares, Dionisio Babo. 320.95986.
All rights reserved. You may download, display, print and reproduce this material in unaltered form only (retaining this notice) for your personal, non-commercial use or use within your organisation. "
* Contents. Foreword by Xanana Gusmao vii; Preface ix; Preface to the ANU E Press publication xi; Contributors xiii; Abbreviations and acronyms xvii; Map of Timor xxii; Map of East Timor xxiii;
* Background. 1. Tracing the path, recounting the past: historical perspectives on Timor - James J. Fox 1; 2. From province to nation: the demographic revolution of a people - Terence H. Hull 28; 3. East Timor: education and human resource development - Gavin W. Jones 41; 4. Political developments leading to the referendum - Dionisio Babo Soares 53; 5. The diplomacy on East Timor: Indonesia, the United Nations and the international community - Grayson J. Lloyd 74; 6. The CNRT campaign for independence - Fernando de Araujo 99; 7. Experiences of a district electoral officer in - Suai Catharina Williams 117;
* Assessment. 8. The popular consultation and the United Nations mission in East Timor - first reflections - Ian Martin 126; 9. The TNI and East Timor policy Harold Crouch 141; 10. East Timor: The misuse of military power and misplaced military pride - John B. Haseman 168; 11. The strategic implications of an independent East Timor - Alan Dupont 179; 12. East Timorese refugees in West Timor - Januar Achmad 190;
* Reconstruction. 13. Reconciling worlds: the cultural repositioning of East Timorese youth in the diaspora - Fiona Crockford 207; 14. An international strategy for the new East Timor: some preliminary thoughts - Andrew MacIntyre 218; 15. Questions for the United Nations team managing East Timor - C. Peter Timmer 228; 16. The Joint Assessment Mission and reconstruction in East Timor - Sarah Cliffe 234; 17. Fiscal issues for a small war-torn Timor Loro Sa'e - Joao Mariana Saldanha 243; 18. Challenges for the future - Dionisio Babo Soares 262.
[An e-book - ed.]
URL http://epress.anu.edu.au/oota/frames.php
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - 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

03 Jan 2004
4star
Korean Integrated News Database System (KINDS)
Korea Press Foundation, Seoul, South Korea
Self-description: "KINDS provides full texts of ten major national dailies; the Kyunghyang Shinmun, the Kukmin Daily, the Korea Daily News, the Dong-A Ilbo, the Munhwa Ilbo, the Segye Ilbo, the Chosun Ilbo, the Joongang Ilbo, the Hankyoreh, and the Hankook Ilbo. Articles of January 1, 1990 and after are available. KINDS also provides articles of economic daily newspapers, such as the Maeil Business Newspaper, the Seoul Kyungje Shinmun, the Korea Economic Daily, the Naewoe Economic Daily, the Jeil Economic Daily, the Money Today, and the Financial News. It delivers essential financial and business information for the most selective consumer. [... In sum,]. KINDS has more than 5 million articles from national dailies, economic dailies, TV news programs, English language dailies, local dailies, professional newspapers, and news magazines."
[A free-of-charge service, accessible worldwide via a subscription - ed.]
URL http://www.kinds.or.kr/peng_html/what_kinds.html
Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.kinds.or.kr
Link reported by: Moo-Young Han (myhan@phy.duke.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 3,000

02 Jan 2004
3star
Attacks on Musharraf: Unanswered Questions
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
[Extract: "While there has been no progress in the investigation into the attempt to kill President General Pervez Musharraf on December 14, the only progress in the case relating to the attempt on December 25 has been the identification of the two suicide bombers who killed themselves while ramming vehicles containing explosives into the presidential convoy. [...] There are still many unanswered questions relating to the attempt of December 25." - b.raman]
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers9/paper880.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

01 Jan 2004
2star
Vietnam Wooden Boat Foundation
Vietnam Wooden Boat Foundation, Port Townsend, WA, USA
Supplied note: "Vietnam Wooden Boat Foundation is a U.S. non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the maritime history of Vietnam including building replicas of traditional Vietnamse wooden sailing boats before the last of the boatbuilders preserving the maritime history of Vietnam including building replicas of traditional Vietnamse wooden sailing boats before the last of the boatbuilders die. - jd."
URL http://www.vietnamboats.org
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: John Doney (john@vietnamboats.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30


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