Databasing Chinese / visions.

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Thanks BOB !!!!

 

Awesome and refreshing, updating info and a summarising landmark - is what you

give in this article!

Thanks many times and greatest respects from me to you for your follow up on the

chinese and computing - databasing questions.

 

I will most likely return with even more vigour and determination with more

questions on your forum, and I will repeat that it is perfect that we have the

forum especially for this discussion.

(http://www.paradigm-pubs.com/forums/cyber/index.html)

 

I will advise everyone with interests or contacts to people with helpfull

knowledge/skills or interest give this forum as much attention as possible, as I

completely agree with Bob's Forum opener and now the latest article in the

discussion: Chinese medicine in the west will only continue to grow and reach

levels far beyond what we know in the west today. We need standards and uniform

terminology in order to get closer to chinese medicine as it is in its real form

in Chinese, no matter classic or modern. - No matter what the oppinion is,

chinese medicine is created using classifications, hence the knowledge in it is

structured according to classifications, - and the same thing with computer and

database technology.

Therefore in order to overcome this great task of creating the western version

of

chinese medicine that can be comparable to the chinese tradition (efficacy as

well as knowledge), - and to do this in our time or so: databasing is the only

and ultimate tool. It is also a gift of our time to this field. It is also where

the west can contribute to and take part in TCM, - making chinese medicine a

greater phenomena than " chinese " or " traditional " - in other words: Chinese

medicine has a future, probably as a world wide phenomena. It is among those

impulses that will make the world view more complete for both the scientist and

the average person.

- But to stay on the ground, there is so much work to do, and more attention to

this area is very much needed at this stage, in order to start it off.

 

Through the issue of databasing, the ultimate discussions about standardized

terminlogy, standardized definitions and knowledge will be jumpstarted as a

matter of " must " because of the principles of layout in databases.

This will affect everyone in the field of TCM, from scholars, writers to

practisioners, and in the end the patients receiving treatment.

 

- I have been using a great deal of time lately trying to figure out more about

databasing and chinese for a bigger multifunction chinese medicine database.

My last ends comes to the possibility of using MySQL (that is a free source

thing

and among the fastest databases available). It has yet not been upgraded to

Unicode, but will be in very near future (according to their website).

http://www.mysql.com

Another line I am following is the mojikyu project, 80.000 characters!

http://www.mojikyo.gr.jp

 

Any comments from anyone?

I'll be back!

 

Sebastian!

Copenhagen

Denmark

 

 

 

 

 

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