Alternate Title
Category
Local Gazetteers (Historical)
Institution
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Max Planck Society)
Access
open access
URL
https://logart.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/
Description
LoGaRT (Local Gazetteers Research Tools) is a digital research platform developed by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science for searching, analyzing, and collecting data from digitized Chinese local gazetteers (difangzhi 地方志). Rather than requiring scholars to browse individual volumes, LoGaRT treats all available digitized gazetteers as a unified conceptual database, enabling historians to ask large-scale comparative questions transcending individual volumes, geographical regions, and time periods. The platform provides access to two collections: the open-access Rare Local Gazetteers at Harvard-Yenching Library, and Erudition's commercial Zhongguo fangzhi ku (中國方志庫, available to MPIWG affiliates only). The project's research activities concluded in 2024 and LoGaRT is in the process of being transferred to the Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) for long-term service provision.
Source List
ACLS Open Database Resource Guide
Tags
Economy Local history Digital humanities Historical archive Late Imperial (1368–1912)
Last Modified
5/17/2026 12:06am