CDNLAO Newsletter
No. 98, August 2021
The "East Asia Digital Library" online service is for sharing and utilizing East Asia's digital information resources. The service curates digital information resources published or written in Northeast Asia and provides full-text and bibliographic data for anyone to use.
Since December 2020, the National Library of Korea and National Diet Library have cooperated to provide the East Asia Digital Library pilot service for integrated search and use of digital resources of the two institutions.
< EADL Website >
The EADL portal provides a total of 199 digital full-text titles including NLK and NDL contents and integrated search service for 7,914 bibliographic data items.
| Class | Digital Full-text Titles | Bibliographic Data (Items) | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| NLK | 119 | 3,926 | 4,045 |
| NDL | 80 | 3,988 | 4,068 |
| Total | 199 | 7,914 | 8,113 |
< Data Items Provided by EADL >
Digital full texts provided through curation by subject can be browsed by institution, country, year, period and collection subject explanation and main content are provided by subject in English, Korean and Japanese. All data items are published in Linked Data form, and can be downloaded in various data formats through SPARQL Endpoint and shared through SNS channels.
| Class | Collection Subject | No. of Full-text Titles |
|---|---|---|
| NLK | Royal documents of the Joseon Dynasty (25) / Korean Art (12) / Korean Buddhism (8) / Joseon missions to Japan, Joseon Tongsinsa (21) / Women in the Joseon era (18) / Dictionaries of the Joseon Dynasty (5) / Scenic spots with beautiful landscapes (8) / First paperback edition novels in Korean, Ttakjibon (22) | 119 titles |
| NDL | Herbal medicine and natural history (10) / Old movable-type printed books (9) / Old printed books (11) / Other (50) | 80 titles |
< NLK Collections >
< NDL Collections >
The NLK plans to encourage more institutions that hold East Asia related resources to participate and expand the East Asia Digital Library to provide more abundant resources.
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