Internet resources for Taiwan

This is a large online database of Chinese works complied by
Academia Sinica in Taiwan. It contains very rich contents
that span across Chinese historical classics, Buddhism
scripts, various local gazetteers of Taiwan, as well as
other primary resources on Taiwan and its history.
Particularly, it has an online version of the Encyclopedia
of Taiwan (臺灣文獻叢刊).

「考古资料数位典藏资料库」是一个以中央研究院历史语言研究所考古工作
成果为主的考古资料库，目前开放查询的部分以本所考古报告及相关出版品
已发表的材料为限。本系统的特色有二，其一为採取考古学的系络关係，而
分为遗址、遗迹、遗物三个子资料库。其二，本系统也收纳各种媒体资料，
包括与考古工作及研究相关的各式照片、线绘图、拓片、田野记载表、墓葬
记载表、地图等各式记录，且不限其数位化后为影像、声音、记录影片等媒
材形式，皆收录在本系统的多媒体影像资料库中。

The Mandarin Promotion Council ( MPC ), Ministry of
Education in Taiwan is responsible for compiling this
dictionary. It is developed from the table of Chinese
character variants, which was made the Department of
Chinese, National Taiwan Normal University and has been
published for many years. The dictionary was finished on
June 2001, and contains over 100,000 character variants in
total.

The Digital Archive Projects t at Dharma Drum Buddhist
College contains several projects: Scripture and Canon,
Buddhism in Taiwan, Bibliographies, Catalogs and
Publications, Miscellaneous projects, Multi-media Archives,
and Collected Works.

This is a digital archiving project undertaken by the
National Tsing-Hua University of Taiwan that aims at
digitizing and making publicly accessible a batch of
historical records including correspondences, postcards,
calligraphy and painting works, and other archival
materials
dating back to the period when Taiwan was under the
colonial
rule of Japan. Images of the archival documents are
available online in PDF files, and the portal makes it
possible for users to browse and search for the index and
information.

This digital library contains Buddhist bibliographies
(396,555 entries) and a database of 34,930 full text
Buddhist articles in 45 languages and 15 different types of
data.

该网站囊括台湾所有的佛教寺院介绍、文教组织介绍、佛教人物介绍、文化
艺术的发展。此外，该站还有一个很特殊的功能，就是寺院虚拟巡礼，使用
照片的３Ｄ技术，让使用者可以身历其境。

Elder John Lai's Archives are dedicated to the study of
the history of Christianity in Taiwan with special
emphasis attached to the Presbysterian Church. This
resource is of significant research value for the study of
early history of Christianity in Taiwan. Currently, the
Archives contain three parts: 1. the full text of Prof.
John Lai’s “Kau-hoe-su-oe” 《教會史話》, a collection of
articles on the history of Christianity in Taiwan; 2.
scrapbook files compiled by Prof. Lai, which are valuable
primary sources used for his writings; and 3. Prof. Lai’s
personal bio and family history.

Published semi-annually, the Film Appreciation Academic
Journal (peer-reviewed) was started in 2004 by Taiwan Film
Digital Archives (TFDA). The journal's articles are freely
downloadable for registered members. Website registration is
free.

Film Appreciation Seasonal Magazine is a popular magazine published by Taiwan Film Digital Archives (TFDA). This website has the table of contents for the current and past issues of the Magazine.

Formosa is a digital library hosted by Reed College of
Portland, Oregon that specializes in gathering early images,
maps, and texts on the island of Taiwan, which was called
\Formosa\ by foreign visitors in the 19th Century. Scholars
can even find a small sampling of primary linguistic data on
various aboriginal languages collected by early explorers.
Primary source data like this were originally published in
European and North American books and journals during the
19th Century, but have since become hard to access with the
passage of time.

This site is created and maintained By Wei Luo, lecturer of
Law and Director of Technical Services, Washington
University School of Law Library. It intends to provide
links to Chinese (Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong)
legal resources on the Internet, legal research guides and
other information related to Chinese legal research.

The \Mandarin Chinese mini dictionary\ is a small-scaled
online dictionary especially edited for pupils. It is
comparatively simplified because of considering the word
collections and the expatiations are all suitable for
pupils' use. In using index, users are allowed to input
words to search directly, or search by radicals, strokes
and pronunciations of different Chinese characters.
Besides, there are some words appendixed with pictures for
explanation, so there is also a picture index for users to
query texts reversely, thus it is quite convenient for the
use on language teaching and child-parent education.

\Min and Hakka Language Archives\, which is a follow-up
project of the \Southern Min Archives: A Database of
Historical Change and Language Distribution”

The project brings treasures from the NPM collection to you
using websites offering thematic introductions. These
thematic websites all provide a full array of visual and
textual materials on artworks as well as various functions
for appreciating them. This is done so in the hope of
creating a multiple learning environment that will yield
greater study and research benefits as well as reach the
goal of digitized educational and promotional efforts.

This e-journal database provides access to fulltext articles
of 34 journals published by various departments of the
National Taiwan University since 2003. Disciplines covered
include arts, literature, political science, architecture,
engineering and business. Please check
(http://www.press.ntu.edu.tw/ejournal/index.asp) for a full
list of journals included.

The site has won awards in Taiwan for its explanation of the
PSDB system of romanized transcription which is being put
forth as the proper method for writing the Taiwanese
language.

This web site contains materials relating to the history of
Buddhism in Taiwan, including journal articles (full text in
many cases), indexes to books and journal articles,
transcripts of interviews, historical documents, multimedia
resources, etc.

Taiwan Cinema Yearbook is an annual publication of Taiwan
Film Ditial Archives (TFDA). The latest edition can be
downloaded in full-text on the TFDA webiste.

The chief objective of the Taiwan Colonial Statistics
Database lies in the preservation of official statistical
records from the Japanese colonial period. It contains
digitized materials mainly from the National Taiwan
University and National Taiwan Library collections,
including 684 volumes of Japanese colonial statistical
records, 194,075 digital images, and 103,732 sets of
metadata. There are 29 data categories in total, including
law and law-related areas.