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China’S Rural Statistics: The Contemporary Chinese Village Gazetteer Data Project, Yuanziyi Zhang Oct 2020

China’S Rural Statistics: The Contemporary Chinese Village Gazetteer Data Project, Yuanziyi Zhang

Journal of East Asian Libraries

In July 2018, the East Asian Library (EAL) of the University of Pittsburgh Library System (ULS) initiated the Contemporary Chinese Village Gazetteer Data (CCVG Data) project to create a series of open-access online datasets of China’s rural statistics selected from the library’s collection of Chinese village gazetteers. The current datasets contain data from 1,000 village gazetteers in 18 categories. As an ongoing project, the goal is to reach 2,500 to 3,000 villages. A database that allows effective and efficient ingesting, querying, manipulating, and displaying CCVG data will be available for use by the end of 2020. This article serves as …


Emerging Technical Services, Part Two: 2019 Progress & 2020 Planning Report Of Ctp (Committee On Technical Processing), Charlene Chou Oct 2019

Emerging Technical Services, Part Two: 2019 Progress & 2020 Planning Report Of Ctp (Committee On Technical Processing), Charlene Chou

Journal of East Asian Libraries

This report is the Part Two of 2018 CTP report--“Emerging Technical Services: The Vision of the Committee on Technical Processing” published in JEAL, no. 167 (2018), and focuses on the progress of CEAL CTP (Committee on Technical Processing) activities and work plans to fulfill the goals of CTP in the past year.