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Created on : July 29, 2015

Der Westen in China - China im Westen

Title slide: Database - China and the West, Cultural Relations between China and the West 1245-2000, by Anne-Marie Werner and Wolfgang Behr, Zurich.
Slide 'Overview': created by Anne-Marie Werner, begun 2003, supported by Zurich, free access, continually updated, German interface, results exportable as PDF.
Slide 'Thematic Scope': any topic in cultural, intellectual or religious contact; main areas missionary history, sinology, travel accounts, art, science.
Slide 'Main Source Languages': German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese.
Slide 'Sources': printed bibliographies, current publications, about 100 archives, online catalogues, specialists worldwide, CVs gathered by correspondence.
Slide 'Current Statistics (10/2008)': 5,800 working hours, 7,300 pages, 19,000 bibliographic and 21,000 chronological entries, 9,400 biographies, 1,200 sources.
Slide 'Technical Background': three components - database, online and admin application; a MySQL base of about 40 tables; chronology, documents and persons.
Slide 'Technical Background (continued)': the administrative application runs as Javascript with a data-entry GUI; the online application is Java on Tomcat.
Slide 'Search Options': global, chronology, bibliography and person, plus combined searches and filters over search results.
Slide 'Compilation Process': pick an author, gather sources, excerpt everything, cross-check names, rearrange chronologically, check for Chinese translations.
Section slide: II. Utilizing the Database.
Screenshot of the project's main page at the University of Zurich, with an arrow marking the toggle interface language control above the introduction.
Screenshot of the Global Search page of the Bibliography and Biography Database: criteria for subjects, item ID, fulltext and time period, with Search buttons.
Screenshot of a bibliography result page for Nietzsche: German and Chinese publications from 1818 to 1918 with abbreviation, year, text, type and ID.
Screenshot of a sample CV result page: a fulltext search for bol returning 38 results, listing Peter K. Bol's degrees and appointments from 1971 to 1983.
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