Buddhist Studies Authority Databases

This repository is out of date, please use https://github.com/DILA-edu/Authority-Databases.

Contact

da@ddbc.edu.tw

Web site

http://authority.ddbc.edu.tw/

Date

2014-09-26

Description

These databases integrate information from various projects at the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum Buddhist College. By providing information on Chinese calendar dates, as well as an onomasticon of person and place names from Buddhist sources they help with disambiguation and geo-spatial referencing of names and dates.

License

The data is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported. See COPYING.rst for the complete license.

Contents

This repository contains the following files:

• README.rst

  This document, which is in reStructuredText format

• COPYING.rst

  Complete license information.

• authority_person/

  Person Authority Database

• authority_place/

  Place Authority Database

• authority_time/

  Time Authority Database