Buddhist Studies Authority Databases

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• Description
• License
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Contact:	winxd@dila.edu.tw
Web site:	http://authority.dila.edu.tw/
Date:	2020-09-26

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/

  The Person Authority Database provided here includes the data of the person authority database in XML/TEI.

• authority_place/

  The Place Authority Database provided here includes those entries of the place authority database that were created by DILA (c.19.000). The archive is distributed as XML/TEI file. The complete database is accessible through the online interface and API. It contains 38.000 more entries that were provided by the Center of Geographic Information Science at Academia Sinica, Taipei.

• authority_time/

  Here you may download the raw data for the DILA Time Authority Database.