Schedule

• Submission deadline: 1 May 2002
• Publication date: July 2002

Scope

The written word has shaped the cultures of East Asia for over 3,000 years, and in printed form it has been a cultural mainstay for longer than anywhere else on earth. When it comes to digitization and electronic dissemination, East Asia is again at the cutting-edge of technological innovation. This issue of JoDI will look at some of the largest and most advanced digital libraries projects in East Asia. These projects each bring to the digital world a portion of the vast pre-Modern Chinese language corpus, such as oracle-bone carvings dating from as early as the 2nd Millennium BC, and Zen texts from as late as the 18th Century. We will learn not only about the texts but about:

• digitization of pre-Modern Chinese language texts
• editorial recension of ancient texts
• ensuring accuracy over large amounts of data
• handling non-alphabetic languages in digital format and for Internet broadcast
• metadata utilization
• coordinating multiple databases of diverse topics into a single digital library.

Submission

We anticipate that most submissions for this specialised issue will be via editor invitations, but other submissions are also welcomed. Authors must submit their papers electronically using the submission form. Selecting the title or editor for this issue from the Theme or Editor drop-down box will alert the editor to your submission automatically. Before submitting please take note of the journal's Guidelines for submission: notes for authors. It is likely that papers presented in this issue will need to take advantage of special viewers or other non-standard presentation tools that are not covered in these guidelines. Authors who wish to submit a paper with unusual features are requested to contact the Guest Editor prior to submission.

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