A Database for Republican Era (1911-1949) Scholars and Bibliography

Title slide: Building a database of Republican-era (1911-1949) people and their writings, by Long Xiangyang, Fudan University Library, 22 November 2008.
Slide: this is a relational database whose content is the bibliographic and biographical data of the Republican period, 1911 to 1949.
Slide 'I. Republican bibliographic data': 160,000 Chinese titles from 1911-1949 with fields for class, title, author, publisher, year and series.
Bar chart of bibliographic records by year: a few hundred in 1911 rising to nearly 9,000 in 1936, a sharp wartime drop, then about 6,000 in 1947.
Slide 'II. Republican biographical data': 30,000 records with name, dates, pen name, native place, education, offices and source, beside six reference works.
Slide 'III. Edition system': an Access form for Chen Wangdao listing works published 1911-1949 and again 1950-2006, the latter 120,000 titles.
Slide 'IV. Analysing the data via the union catalogue of modern literature': a table of authors by number of works, Guo Moruo 117 and Lu Xun 74 at the top.
Slide 'VI. Progress': collecting catalogues of Republican material held overseas; Harvard-Yenching holds 28,000 titles, of which 3,000 can be added.
Slide on the overseas education of Republican figures: an Access table of Harvard Ph.D. holders with Chinese and romanised names, birth year and degree year.
Acknowledgements slide thanking three library directors and their resources group, a deputy librarian in Hong Kong, and the Harvard-Yenching librarian.
Closing slide: the single word thank you in Chinese, beneath a red rule.