LoGaRT: Local Gazetteers Research Tools

CATEGORY

Digital Humanities Tools and Data Sets

INSTITUTION

Max Planck Institute, Harvard-Yenching Library

URL

https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/research/projects/logart-local-gazetteers-research-tools

DESCRIPTION

The Max Planck Institute: LoGaRT is a software for searching, analyzing, and collecting data from digitized Chinese local gazetteers. It provides historians with a bird's-eye view on a collection of gazetteers beyond browsing and reading individually. The philosophy behind LoGaRT is to treat all the digitized gazetteers available as a conceptual database for historical inquiries. Thus, LoGaRT allows historians to ask larger-scale questions that are not necessarily bounded by geographical regions, time periods, or individual efforts. There are many collections of digitized Chinese local gazetteers with differing quality and licensing conditions. Currently, two high-quality collections are accessible via LoGaRT: Rare Local Gazetteers at Harvard-Yenching Library and Erudition's Zhongguo fangzhi ku (中国方志库).