Contact: CJ Chen, Ephemera Project Postdoc Fellow, Chao Center for Asian Studies http://chaocenter.rice.edu/

Programmer support: Ying Jin

General info

• IR link: http://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/69922

• Collection contains advertisements found in early 19^th century Chinese newspapers.

• Efforts are underway to gather additional images (3,000 to 30,000) from 5 newspapers

Metadata

Due to the complex nature of advertisements, descriptive metadata includes information about the images themselves (shared as JPEG2000 files), the source medium (newspapers) as well as the commodity (product, brands, source company, agents and nationality). The majority of bibliographic information is in Chinese. If an English translation of text is available, it is provided in square brackets next to the native language text. Work is being done to transcribe the slogans and other textual information provided within each advertisement.

• Draft application profile (in process)

System Architecture notes

• Images are shared publicly as JPEG2000 files. Source files may be tiff masters or converted from  jpeg source files.
• Future work planned for an Omeka exhibit (using linked data) and a custom display of ads within newspaper page