* tmc * in patientia vestra habetis animam vestram * tmc *

Dear Reader,

The ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR
(including all its subsidiary (and/or sister) pages on "coombs.anu.edu.au" server) has permanently ceased its publishing operations on Friday 21st January 2011.

All of the online resources reported here have been thoroughly checked at the time of their listing. However, it is possible that, with the with the passage of time, many of the originally reported materials might have been removed from the Internet, or changed their online address, or varied the scope and quality of their contents.

Fortunately, in several cases it is possible to access many of the older versions of the resources listed in the MONITOR. This can be easily done via the free services of the "The Internet Archive" http://web.archive.org/, a remarkable brainchild of Brewster Kahle, San Francisco, CA.

- with warm regards -

Editor, Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.

Canberra, 21 January 2011.

15 January 2010

Old Tibetan Documents Online (OTDO)

http://otdo.aa.tufs.ac.jp/

5star
15 Jan 2010

Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan

Self-description:
"Old Tibetan Documents Online (OTDO) is a corpus of selected old (VIIth to Xth centuries) Tibetan texts: Dunhuang manuscripts [digitised and published by The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) http://idp.bl.uk/], Inscriptions and related materials. We provide critically edited texts together with search and KeyWord In Context (KWIC) facilities."

Site contents:
* Introduction [under construction];
* Acknowledgements;
* About Us;
* Online Texts [as of 15 Jan 2010 - 89 texts; an example of the data structure and contents of the record "ITJ_1379" follows:
1. Content : Receipt for the repayment of loaned wheat. 2. Note : sheet. The top left part of the main text is missing. Recto, 9 lines with two illegible vermilion seals at the bottom. Verso, 1 line.
3. References : Thomas (1951: 43-44) [I.Translit., I.Trans.], T?y? bunko (part 10, 65-66) , Takeuchi (1995: 262-263) [I.Translit., I.Trans.].
4. Transliteration: (r1) [---] stsang / / mngan rnying lo byis brtsan gyi sug pa na /\[...] - ed.]
* Search the Texts [incl. search for text patterns];
* References (Abbreviations, Bibliography [in European and Asian languages]);
* Links;
* Search [the site].

URL http://otdo.aa.tufs.ac.jp/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://otdo.aa.tufs.ac.jp/

Link reported by: T Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 3,000
Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

posted by tmciolek at Friday, January 15, 2010