The National Science Council launched the National Digital Archives Program in 2001 to encourage Taiwan's archive institutes and collectors to digitalise their treasured collections of documents and artefacts which will then be used in added value application. The standards of relevant technologies would also be decided during the process of the Program. The digital archives of the diplomatic and economic records in modern history is a project of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, which is planning to complete the digital archives of diplomatic files and the documents of the International Economic Cooperation and Development Commission of the Executive Yuan in five years. We have finished in 2001 the digitalisation of the documents of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, series 18-32, which consists of more than 40,000 entries of bibliographic records or about 290,000 pages of scanned images.