{"id":5756,"date":"2019-07-04T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2021-08-26T16:05:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T08:05:27","slug":"the-launch-of-the-academia-sinica-digital-archives-web-portal-a-million-precious-research-resources-waiting-to-be-uncovered-by-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/5756\/","title":{"rendered":"The Launch of the \u201cAcademia Sinica Digital Archives\u201d Web Portal \u2013 A million precious research resources waiting to be uncovered by you!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u201cAcademia Sinica Digital Archives<\/a><\/strong>\u201d web portal is having its grand opening, integrating over 1.28 million precious digital resources and 160 websites. Providing the ability to conveniently search across multiple databases, this countless array of digital collections serves as a threshold for the general public to enter into the world of digital archives, as well as a foundation for academic research and many further applications.<\/p>\n

The Academia Sinica has actively promoted the National Digital Archive Program for over a decade, and has continued with the aims of research and preservation by digitizing its research assets that are older, possess value for historical archives, and are most utilizable by national and international scholars. To make it easier for both researchers and laypeople to use our institute\u2019s rich and rare collection of digital resources, the Center for Digital Cultures built the integrated and organized \u201cAcademia Sinica Digital Archives\u201d website.<\/p>\n

Oracle bone inscriptions and bronze artifacts from the dawn of recorded Chinese history, archival documents revealing the successive shifts of political power over different time periods in Taiwan, oral folklore and field studies of Taiwan\u2019s indigenous peoples, photo books and news magazines reporting on people\u2019s real lifestyles in every era, as well as a plethora of fish and shellfish images, and specimens of Taiwan\u2019s unique plant species \u2013 the catalogue contains over 1.28 million entries originating from every institute of the Academia Sinica. Each entry is a source of specialized research possessing authority and accuracy. This interdisciplinary treasure trove of knowledge is simply waiting for someone to uncover and utilize its wonders.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, in order to bring users into closer contact with specialized knowledge, the website also gathers many popular science articles, with categories including antiquities and archaeology, the natural and biological sciences, art and architecture, regional industries, digital technology, etc. Articles such as \u201cMonsters! The beastly mask motif in ancient artifacts,\u201d \u201cTempest in a tea box \u2013 the art of tea chest trademarks and advertisements,\u201d \u201cCelebration and sanctity \u2013 see the evolution of Taiwan\u2019s wedding attire through photography,\u201d \u201cSurvival strategy!! \u2013 the all-out struggle to survive for organisms in the intertidal zone,\u201d etc., explore deep topics in simple terms in order to explain the special qualities of the archive collections and to tell a story. One point worth mentioning is that every article also lists related items, enabling readers to take further steps into the world of the archive collections.
\nThe \u201cAcademia Sinica Digital Archives\u201d website gathers the fruits of our institute\u2019s many years of labor. It is the optimal entry point to access our institute\u2019s vast digital resources. In the future, we hope to add even more institute research data into this treasure trove of knowledge, providing a more complete resource for specialized research with ready access for both scholars and general society, thus further raising the value of our archive collection.<\/p>\n

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The \u201cAcademia Sinica Digital Archives\u201d web portal is having its grand opening, integrating over 1.28 million precious digital resources and 160 websites. Providing the ability to conveniently search across multiple databases, this countless array of digital collections serves as a threshold for the general public to enter into the world of digital archives, as well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5771,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions\/5771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}