Institute d'Extrême-Orient

CJK Open Access Catalogue

Since the summer of 1995, as a result of a joint project with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, an initial package of the Chinese catalogue of the Institute d'Extrême-Orient has been uploaded on to a server in Grenoble, France. It is accessible through Netscape (PC or MacIntosh) and provides bibliographies dealing with classical Chinese Studies with their corresponding data in Chinese characters code. Code is in Big-5, romanized data is in Pinyin. Search keys are: authorship, title, ISBN/ISSN, collection, publisher, place, and year of publication. A subject search key (in French!) is also available. It corresponds roughly to the classification of the annual bibliography (Toyogaku bunken ruimoku) of the Kyoto University Research Institute. A list of these subject headings (only a few hundred, including geographical and chronological headings) can be sent upon request.

The address of the server is:
http://dodge.upmf-grenoble.fr:8001/

The base name to click on is:
"SIGXOR, Extrême-Orient"

Simple browsing operations need no special identification, but at your first try to download fiches, you will be requested to send your own address to the operator. After recognition of your server machine number, further operations will pose no downloading
problems.

The downloading process is explained in a short text when you click on:
"Notice CJK"

It enables you to read CJK vernacular after your fiches are logged, and not only CJK code as displayed on the Netscape screen. Other hypertext help and explanations are available at every level.
The first 20,000 records loaded will be regularly updated and increased in number, not only from the Institut d'Extrême-Orient database but from existing catalogues in France, dealing with Chinese Studies. Furthermore, a set of 25,000 records corresponding to Japanese, Indian, and Korean Studies with their vernacular script code will be added by the middle of 1996. A Vietnamese catalogue (Vietnamese fonts downloadable) of 5,000 records is already available. Other catalogues for a total of around 250,000 records, related to humanities in general (prehistory, history, sociology, ethnology, etc.), are also accessible at the same homepage for Western books only.
This facility is maintained by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, "Catalogue Collectif des Ouvrages", Paris.

For information, contact:
Hubert Delahaye
College de France, Paris
E-mail: delahaye@ext.jussieu.fr