This database is responsible for the management, revision and digitalisation of the Han Wooden Slips collected by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. These wooden slips were excavated in areas that were once the frontiers of the Han dynasty. They are invaluable national cultural heritage, for they recorded in a direct and vivid style the various aspects of local social life such as its military, law, education, economy, religion and everyday life from the late middle period of the Western Han dynasty to the early Eastern Han dynasty. Considering the great value of computer technology to the study of Han dynasty wooden slip, the wooden slip team of the Institute launched the digitalisation plan of wooden slip image and commentary in the early 1990s. The team also established at the same time the infrared image system for the following two databases: Wooden, Silk, Bronze and Stone Objects, and A Supplement to Han Dynasty Wooden Slips from Edsengol. These were pioneering work in Taiwan at that time. Nowadays the digital archive project of the Han Wooden Slips in the Institute of History and Philology is working on the digitalisation of the wooden slip archive and then arranges the structure of its metadata after systematic analyse. This digital project will therefore transform these precious artefacts from their physical existence in the library into the virtual form of digital archives across the boundary of time and space. This wooden slip database allows users to browse the basic information of Han wooden slips, their commentary as well as different versions of digital images such as colourful, infrared photos . Besides, we also help the study of Han wooden slips by creating the inquiry system of Han dynasty wooden slips which incorporate the spatial and temporal information of the database with GIS.

http://rub.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/~woodslip/index.htm