Paper short abstract:

In this paper, we will discuss the history, current state, and future of KU-ORCAS at Kansai University.

Paper long abstract:

Kansai University has a historical tradition of East Asian studies and has established the Kansai University Open Research Center for Asian Studies (KU-ORCAS) for the world based on the resources and international network of East Asian cultural studies built over 200 years. the research departments of KU-ORCAS are: documents related to East-West cultural contact, Osaka's learned traditions and networks in East Asian contexts, and temporal and spatial issues in the ancient capital, Shiji. The digitization projects currently under the auspices of Kansai University include Modern Chinese Literature and Digital Collections, Digitization of the Modern Chinese Corpus, etc. In addition to this, Kansai University's East Asian canonical documents, including the Naito Bunko, Nagasawa Bunko, and Nakamura Bunko, have been incorporated into the digitization process. Currently, Kansai University has completed the digitization of more than 5,000 documents, of which more than 3,000 are open to the public. Other databases will be electronically digitized subsequently, such as temple databases, stone tablet databases, and film databases.

Kansai University's Open Research Center (KU-ORCAS) has been electronically available in most of the materials on the website, and the database of recent Chinese literature mentioned earlier are very useful, with images, followed by text, which can be searched, including full-text search, association search (Multi File Lookup), association search of dissimilar characters, electronic text and image browsing at the same time and so on. In the future, we will add functions such as linking with software such as N-Gram, Concordance, and full-word index generation.