Since 2004, this project has established a digital archive of the Institute's collection of more than 40,000 oracle bone rubbings acquired either from excavation or by purchase. Our archive includes illustrated articles and data, so that users not only can retrieve basic data and articles of oracle bone rubbings, but also compare words with pictures. Besides, users could find more detailed information, images and photos of real rubbings by clicking on display items’ archive numbers on the ‘Real Object’ web page which link to the website of Archaeological Digital Archives. As to the problem of missing character on web pages, the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, has already accumulated enough experience of the digitalisation of archaic Chinese scripts and characters in its design of Chinese Character Construction Database that includes ancient scripts such as the regular script, small seal script , bronze script and Chu scripts. Therefore, this project office will solve the problem of missing characters of the oracle bone script by cooperating with the Institute of Information Science in building Oracle Bone Script Construction Database.

http://rub.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/~oracle/