Creating the Digital Library. A Special Report from the Primary Research Group20014Creating the Digital Library. A Special Report from the Primary Research Group. New York: Primary Research Group 2000. 82 pp.

Representing the Primary Research Group (PRG), Joan Oleck, a freelance journalist and past contributor to Business Week and Newsday, shares the findings from a 2011 project that “profiles the management practices and other business decisions of nine high-profile special collections/rare book libraries.” The nine institutions profiled include the Fales Library and Special Collections of New York University, the Harry Ransom Research Center Library and Museum of the University of Texas, Austin, and the American Museum of Natural History Library, New York City, among others.Although Oleck fails to describe how PRG chose each institution included in the report, the variety . . .

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Vapour Phase Chromatography . Proceedings of the symposium sponsored by the Hydrocarbon Research Group of the Institute of Petroleum, London, 30 May-1 June 1956. D. H. Desty, Ed. Academic Press, New York; Butterworths, London, 1957. 436 pp. Illus. $12.

Science ◽

10.1126/science.126.3268.311-c ◽

1957 ◽

Vol 126 (3268) ◽

pp. 311-312

Author(s):

Frank L. Howard

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Research Group ◽

Vapour Phase ◽

Academic Press

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Discovering relationships from imperial court documents of Qing China

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing ◽

10.3366/ijhac.2012.0036 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 6 (1-2) ◽

pp. 22-41 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jieh Hsiang ◽

Shih-Pei Chen ◽

Hou-Ieong Ho ◽

Hsieh-Chang Tu

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Digital Library ◽

Numerical Data ◽

Historical Documents ◽

Primary Research ◽

Research Material ◽

Imperial Court ◽

Citation Relation ◽

Taiwan History ◽

The Way

The Qing Imperial Court documents are a major source of primary research material for studying the Qing era China since they provide the most direct and first-hand details of how national affairs were handled. However, the way Qing archived these documents has made it cumbersome to collect documents covering the same event and rebuild their original contexts. In this paper, we describe some information technology that we have developed to discover two important and useful relations among these documents. The first is the citation relation among the Imperial Edicts and the Memorials. We discovered 6,801 pairs from the 37,831 Taiwan-related Imperial Court documents in the Taiwan History Digital Library (THDL) and produced 1,101 graphs of successive citations, which we call IE-M diagrams. The second relation is a template relation, which indicates groups of documents that were created following a specific format. Numerical data can also be tabulated from these documents and be used for further analysis. Our studies show how information technology can be used to discover useful contexts from seemingly unrelated historical documents.

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