The project has two branch projects on Chinese and Formosan Language archives. The former is further divided into 5 sub-projects. The latter aims to preserve the endangered Formosan Austronesian languages with corpora, lexicons and grammars of each language. Its innovations include integration of linguistic information with GIS. Among the Chinese archives, 'Early- Mandarin Chinese Lexicon' is designed to construct a knowledge system of Chinese language evolution from the early modern to the modern era. 'Lexical Database of Pre-Qin Bronze and Bamboo Manuscripts' aims to build a lexicon of Yin, Zhou, and ChunQiu bronze inscriptions, and the bamboo manuscripts of the Warring States. Its goal is to give an overview of Chinese phrases from the Pre-Qin era through the Han dynasty. 'Modern Chinese Corpus and Treebank' puts emphasis on structurally annotated archives for value-added applications such as IR, automatic QA, and summarization. 'Archives and Linguistic Representation of Spoken Taiwan Mandarin' documents the everyday usage of modern Chinese in Taiwan in digital multimedia forms. 'Southern-Min Archive: A Database of Historical Change in Language Distribution' is a new addition in 2003. It aims to provide both a historical depth and sociological complexity to the archives of native Chinese languages in Taiwan.

http://languagearchives.sinica.edu.tw/