The emphasis of information technology has shifted from not-networked databases to Internet resources. Creating full digital texts of specific subjects, and applying search and retrieval capability to its web site has become one of the most important tasks on the network.
Yuan Ze University, Peking University and the University of Washington in a joint cooperative project have created a Sung Dynasty Literature Web Site. It is a full text retrievable database consisting of selected Sung Dynastic poetry collections, a bibliography, of Sung literature studies of both Chinese and English publications, and other related information., .. AB a result of the participation of the National Central Library, the bibliography has been expanded to include the scholarship on Tang Dynasty literature.
The paper will discuss the roles of the participating institutions and individuals; background of the cooperative consortium, the contribution of our research to sinological resources, and a possible future expansion of our project.