Saturday, January 17, 2009

Search Databases

  • China Bibliography: Collections of Resources (By Shea, Marilyn) A large collection of resources and bibliographies for Chinese studies. Date: 1996-2003
  • Digital Resource Center for Global Chinese Teaching and Learning 全球華語文數位教與學資源中心 (By Academia Sinica) Database of digital resources for global Chinese teaching and learning. Date: 2005
  • Internet Archieve (By Internet Archive) The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages. Chinese teaching and learning web sites and can be found in this archieve. Accepts contributions. Date: None
  • LangNet (By National Foreign Language Center) Searchable database of resources related to Chinese teaching and learning. Contains brief reviews of a variety of resources. Date: 2005
  • LCTL Course Offerings (By The University of Minnesota) Resources for less commonly taught languages including Chinese. Searchable. List of institutions that offer Chinese language courses can be found. Some information is outdated. Date: None
  • List of In-house-made Online Corpora and Web Concordancers (By Richard Xiao, Huaqing Hong, and Hongyin Tao) A list of online corpora and web concordancers. Date: Unknown
  • LIVAC Online 華語共時語料庫 (By Hong Kong City University 香港城市大學語言資訊科學研究中心) 語料來自香港、台灣、北京、上海、澳門及新加坡六地有代表性的中文報紙,以及電子媒介上的新聞報道,選取同日語料 Date: 2003
  • MERLOT Multimedia Educational Resource for Language and Online Teaching (By merlot.org) A free and open resource for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. A reliable peer-review site for online language teaching and learning. Date: None
  • Online Catalog of Study Abroad Opportunities in East Asian (By NEALRC Ohio State University) An online database where one can search for study abroad opportunities. Very useful for the students who want to go study abroad. Date: Unknown
  • Resources for Teaching and Learning Chinese (By The University of Minnesota) Resources for teaching and learning Chinese. Learning materials are included. Date: None
  • Scripta Sinica 中央研究院漢籍電子文獻瀚典全文檢索系統 1.3 版 (By Academia Sinica) Searchable database of resources of classical Chinese documents. 中文古籍資料庫,包含二十五史、十三經、臺灣史料、大正藏以及其他典籍,合計字數一億三千四百萬字。 Date: 1997
  • Software and multimedia database for Chinese language teaching (By TCLT) A database providing information about available software, courseware and other multimedia resources for Chinese language learning and instruction. Date: 2008
  • The LCMC Corpus Web Concordancer (By McEnery, Tony and Richard Xiao) The corpus is designed as a Chinese match of the Freiburg-LOB Corpus of British English (FLOB), and, as such, will provide a valuable resource for contrastive studies between English and Chinese as well as a sound basis for monolingual investigations of Chinese. Date: 2004
  • UCLA Language Materials Project (By University of California, Los Angeles) A searchable database of learning materials for all languages including Chinese. Date: Last modified 2004
  • University of Wisconsin Digital Collections (By University of Wisconsin) A collection of photos that document early 20th century China including the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1937-1945), a visual history of Buddhist practices and temples in China, and other images of daily life in both rural and urban China. Date: None
  • 華文字句搜索網 (By 張偉光、蘇廷弼等) A web site with digitized Chinese texts, tools of search (concordancer), etc. Date: None