Hsianghoo Steve Ching
Celine Cheung—Assistant Librarian, City University of Hong Kong, Run Run Shaw Library
This paper presents factors that contribute to the collaboration of a project from departmental to international – the project of indexing the Korean classics Hanguk yoktae munjip chongso (HYMC) (in Chinese:《韓國歷代文集叢書》),literally Anthologies of Korean Works through the Ages). HYMC is a series of 3,000 volume set published by Kyungin Publishing Company of Korea a decade ago. The anthologies in the series were written in classic Chinese by over 3,000 prominent authors ranging from Silla Dynasty (early 7th century) to contemporary times, and the contents cover a wide range of topics, such as philosophy, history, literature, politics, geography, and others. It traces a long history of exchanges between Korea and China. The project would index the essay level titles, authors, classification by form of literature, and subject keywords. Data are to be transcribed in Chinese as appeared in the original books, with additional Pinyin Romanization, Hangul, and Korean McCune-Reischauer Romanization. As the indexing would require inputs from specialists in academic field on the task of content analysis and would also require inputs from specialists who understand Chinese, Korean, and English, the project has been developed to a collaborative model – from departmental collaboration to international collaboration – initially, three departments of City University of Hong Kong were involved in the project: the Library has been responsible for the metadata structure and data entry, the Chinese Civilization Centre and Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics have provided academic advices; Jeju National University (Korea), Kyungin Publishing Company (Korea), and the East Asia Library of UC Berkeley (USA) have become partners later on to do the Hangul and Korean Romanization entries. The project would act as a bridge for today’s users to connect to the treasurable ancient classic works and would make the valuable resources more easily to be identified and be effectively used.
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