The objective of the Project is to build a digital archive of the historical documents preserved in the Taiwan Provincial Consultative Council, including Taiwan Provincial Government Recorders and the Bulletins and Transactions of the provincial legislative assembly during Taiwan Provincial Legislature, Taiwan Provincial Interim Assembly and Taiwan Provincial Assembly periods, and the historical documents preserved in the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, including private documents, local government recorders and historical materials on Taiwan Study. The reason for choosing these historical documents as the subjects of the program is that these documents not only are vital to the study of Taiwan History but also record important events in the history of democracy, specifically the history of Legislative Politics, of our nation.

The Program spans three years, with the primary focus on integrating the Provincial Government Recorders and the Bulletins and Transactions of the provincial legislative assembly, the Addresses of the Legislatives and recordings during Sessions through Digitizing. Another focus of the project is on the integration of public and private documents, local historical materials, and historical Taiwan Study materials through the digitizing process and laying down the foundation of a databank of Taiwan History. Based on these objectives, the development of an index system, the Cataloging of the documents, the Authentication control of post-processing data and the integration of information is vital to the success of the Project.

With the successful implementation of the Project, not only historical materials can be preserved forever and utilized in all the variety ways but also historical materials on Legislative Politics are made available digitally for the first time. And the achievement of the Project also provides a framework for the digital preservation of legislation documents of all the under-level legislations and the development of related software packages.

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