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>>> Ming-Qing Archives Name Authority Database 明清檔案人名權威數據庫（劉錚云）

>>> Ming-Qing Archives Name Authority Database 明清檔案人名權威數據庫（劉錚云）

Created on : July 29, 2015

Ming Qing Archive Name Authority Database

Title slide with the Grand Secretariat archives banner: Ming-Qing Archives Name Authority Database, by Cheng-yun Liu, Academia Sinica, November 2008.

Screenshot of the Name Authority home page: brushed calligraphy over a page of names, with tabs for announcements, help, search, related links and Q&A.

Screenshot of the Palace Museum database of Qing palace memorials: a search form with fields for document number, date, memorialist, office and keyword.

Screenshot of the Grand Secretariat archives search page, 214,831 records, with fields for any field, responsible person, office, summary and record number.

Screenshot of the same form with Liu Yong typed into the responsible person field, and the tabs for field index and advanced search above.

Screenshot of one document record: a 1797 Ministry of Personnel memorial whose responsible person Liu Yong links to his authority record, marked with a red box.

Slide 'II. Search interface': the Name Authority search page, 12,022 records, with fields for name, style name, native place, associations and unit.

Slide 'III. Example: Liu Yong': the same search form with Liu Yong entered in the name field and a red arrow pointing at the search button.

Screenshot of the result for Liu Yong: dates 1720-1804, a table of alternative names each with its source, and his native place linked to GIS coordinates.

Screenshot of the same record scrolled down: biographical citations with sources, then his 1751 degree, his skill in calligraphy, and the start of his offices.

Screenshot scrolled further: offices from grand secretary to crown prince's tutor with tenures and sources, his writings, and kin links to father and sons.

Screenshot of a minimal record view showing only name, reign-era dates and Western dates for Liu Yong.

Screenshot of the alternative names table alone: eleven style names and sobriquets, each with its source, plus the pinyin form Liu Yong.

Screenshot of the Grand Secretariat archives search, now 214,946 records, the search history showing a query for Liu Yong that returned 136 documents.

Screenshot of those 136 results: each gives the reign-era date, the responsible person Liu Yong linked to his record, his office, and a content summary.

Screenshot of the same search form with the style name Chongru entered instead, the search history retaining the earlier 136-record query.

Screenshot of the results list again, reached by the style-name query, showing the same four memorials on Imperial Academy affairs.

Screenshot of the search form with a third variant, the sobriquet Shi'an, entered as the responsible person.

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