Digital bid to archive Mongolian books
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Chinese researchers have launched several projects to preserve historical Mongolian books for digital archive.
A rare Mongolian version of the Tibetan Buddhist classic “Kangyur,” which is engraved on wood, had been scanned and photographed to make a digital copy, said Qi Jinyu, deputy head of the Mongolian language and literature working group.
Published in 1720, the woodcut copy has 109 volumes and 50 million words. Its electronic edition is now available online.
China is home to more than 200,000 volumes of Mongolian books and documents, but many of them are in danger of discoloration and being affected by mildew.
Mongolian books often remain shelved, with readers and scholars restricted from accessing them.
“The most important method to give access is to digitize and publish ancient books. Recently, the digitization project has brought new life to many ancient Mongolian books.” said Soyolt, an official who specializes in ethnic Mongolian documents.
In the past three years, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has digitized and published 120 Mongolian classics.
In northwest China’s Gansu Province, the Northwest University for Nationalities has established a database and collected more than 10,000 Mongolian folk tales.
Researchers in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have collected and compiled 384 books in Todo bichig, an alphabet used by Mongolian tribes in the Qing Dynasty (1644 — 1911).
It is the only compilation of Todo bichig materials in China.
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