duncdrum/Authority-Databases

The DDBC Authority Databases

Buddhist Studies Authority Databases

Contents

• Description
• License
• Contents

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