Harvard to digitize 51,000 rare Chinese books

October 10, 2009

DTL & tsp=1

October 11, 2009

Here's the full story from the Harvard Yen-Ching Library

I can't wait!!! Simply amazing!!!!!

Thomas

October 13, 2009

That is very exciting!

I couldn't figure out from the article if images of the pages will be available

or if text-only versions of the books will be created?

Can anybody tell what book that is in the Harvard link It appears to be the

end of a section on the spleen and the beginning of a section on the lung.

Regards, Henry

October 13, 2009

Hi Henry,

It seems like they are imagining these books, which is great.

I hate to burst the excitement over this, but after reading the article Harvard

seems to be making it very clear that the results of this project will be for

scholars. To me, this means that while most universities will probably get

subscriptions and give access to their students for free, most of us

non-academics would be expected to pay...and probably not a small amount

(assuming this will even be allowed). Several universities in Hong Kong have

already made a bunch of excavated texts digitized, but they will only give

access to universities. I hope I'm wrong!

, " henry_buchtel " <henry.buchtel

wrote:

>

> That is very exciting!

>

> I couldn't figure out from the article if images of the pages will be

available or if text-only versions of the books will be created?

>

> Can anybody tell what book that is in the Harvard link It appears to be

the end of a section on the spleen and the beginning of a section on the lung.

>

> Regards, Henry

>

October 14, 2009

There is a collection of about ten thousand classical medical texts sold on CD.

I think the cost is about two hundred US dollars. It's sold in the mainland. I

think Eric Brand has a set, maybe he could tell us more about it.

Gabe Fuentes

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Re: Harvard to digitize 51,000 rare Chinese books

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