Executing organization: Academia Sinica Institute of Ethnology
Archives Description：
The Taiwan Ethnography Video and Audio Archive aims to digitalize a special video and audio collection in the Museum of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. The video and audio material (around 2000 video and 300 audio tapes) in this collection have been mainly collected through the anthropological research and film-making projects conducted by the research fellow Hu Tai-Li since 1984. This video and audio collection is probably the richest and most valuable one in the field of anthropology in Taiwan.
These first-hand video and audio tapes recorded during the anthropological field participation and observation contain the cultural activities of all ethnic groups including the various Austronesian indigenous peoples and the Han Chinese ( Minnan, Hakka, and mainlanders) in Taiwan . The Taiwan Ethnography Video and Audio Archive in the National Digital Archives Program reveals Taiwan’s cultural diversities and contributes to the understanding of Taiwan’s traditional culture and modern changes.
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The Taiwan Ethnography Video and Audio Archive aims to digitalize a special video and audio collection in the Museum of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. The video and audio material (around 2000 video and 300 audio tapes) in this collection have been mainly collected through the anthropological research and film-making projects conducted by the research fellow Hu Tai-Li since 1984. This video and audio collection is probably the richest and most valuable one in the field of anthropology in Taiwan.
These first-hand video and audio tapes recorded during the anthropological field participation and observation contain the cultural activities of all ethnic groups including the various Austronesian indigenous peoples and the Han Chinese ( Minnan, Hakka, and mainlanders) in Taiwan . The Taiwan Ethnography Video and Audio Archive in the National Digital Archives Program reveals Taiwan’s cultural diversities and contributes to the understanding of Taiwan’s traditional culture and modern changes.
The "Language Archive" has already accomplished the following: for the early modern Chinese corpus, Hong Lou Meng, Jin Ping Mei and Ping Yao Zhua have been put on online with parts-of-speech tagging; 770k words of Shui Hu Zhuan and 80k words of xiqu are tagged with parts-of-speech; 6,500 interpretations of bronze inscriptions are proofread; 730 interpretations of bamboo manuscripts are proofread; for the modern Chinese corpus, 800k phrases are collected, 2.5 million words are tagged with parts-of-speech, and 110k sentences are structurally analyzed; for the modern Chinese speech corpus, 11 hours (6.78GB) of topical conversations and 2 hours (1.3GB) of news recitals are digitally transcribed; The "Formosan Language Archives" digitally processed eleven languages (Atayal, Amis, Bunun, Kanakanavu, Paiwan, Pazeh, Puyuma, Rukai, Saisiyat, Siraya, Tsou) and syntactically analyzed texts in six of the above-mentioned languages; 500 paronyms of English and Chinese sources are integrated with GIS.
