Siku Quanshu research layer
The Siku work establishes a catalogue-first structure organised by the traditional four divisions: Classics, Histories, Masters and Collections. Catalogue records are linked, where permitted, to locally indexed textual witnesses and commentaries.
This supports questions such as: Where does a work belong in the Siku system? Which title variants and commentaries exist? Is a searchable local witness available? Which passage supports a claim?
Local gazetteer digitisation
Our gazetteer workflow combines OCR, correction, manifests, searchable text segments and source-aware answers. An early indexed collection brought together the Guangxu Yongjia Gazetteer and twenty-seven Shanghai-related gazetteer texts, creating 14,560 searchable segments.
The public-facing Gazetteer Knowledge Base presents selected, reviewed material as regional, biographical and bibliographical pages. It does not publish underlying copyrighted text collections as bulk downloads.
Explore the public project: https://gazetteer-wiki.pages.dev/
A living knowledge workflow
Instead of treating digitisation as a one-off database build, questions from researchers can reveal missing metadata, uncertain readings and useful cross-references. Reviewed results can then return to the knowledge base as reusable research notes.