Databases

The China Biographical Database is a freely accessible relational database with biographical information about approximately 360,000 individuals as of April 2015, primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries. With both online and offline versions, the data is meant to be useful for statistical, social network, and spatial analysis as well as serving as a kind of biographical reference. The image below shows the spatial distribution of a cross dynastic subset of 190,000 people in CBDB by basic affiliations (籍貫).

This platform provides data on Anti-Japanese War and Modern Sino-Japan Relationship with textual documents, images, videos, audios, etc.

Digital Humanities Platform of Shanghai Library gathers links to various Chinese humanity data platforms of modern newspapers, advertisements, periodicals, modern books, genealogies, ancient books, family archives, etc. Besides, the portal provides maps that displays the origins of documents, and offers knowledge graphs that demonstrate the internal relationships among documents.

The open data, in the form of Linked Data, supporting the Digital Humanities Project can be found here: http://data.library.sh.cn/index. The platform publishes the general knowledge base (people, places, time, events, and objects), literature knowledge base (genealogy, archive and manuscripts, ancient books, etc.), and ontology vocabulary used in the digital humanities project. Examples include Name Authority Database, Chinese Surname List, Seal Knowledge Base, Taboo Knowledge Base, Engraver Knowledge Base etc.

There are two main types of data available on NPM Open Data: images of collection and basic information; artifact research, accounting reports, and other nominal and numerical data datasets written in xml.