Taiwan Archival Information System was launched in 2008. It stores personal papers and collections, family and folk papers and institutional archives which have been collected by the Archives of ITH for more than 20 years. The stored items include land contracts, account books, correspondences, official documents, photographs, postcards, and maps. This database stores more than 160 record groups and around 380 thousand items, and the archives are continually increasing.
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The online catalog is open to the public. The physical and digital archives are classified into three different levels: viewing and printing online, viewing and printing in the ITH Archives Reading Room, and viewing and transcribing in the ITH Archives Reading Room. Readers can access the digital images of “viewing and printing online” after registering an account with a valid e-mail.
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This database was launched in 2009 by applying the techniques of Wiki platform. It includes the full-text and annotations of diaries which were published by the Institute of Taiwan History and other relevant institutions. There are 15 personal diaries (Lin Xian-tang, Huang Wang-cheng, Lu He-ruo, Den Kenjiro, Yang Ji-Zhen, Jian Ji, Chang Li-jun, Wu Xin-rong, Miyoshi Tokusaburou, Yang Shui-xin, Momiyama Ishu, Shao Yu-lin, Wu Song-qing, George Leslie Mackay, and the Diary of a Japanese Soldier Stationed in Taiwan) and one organizational journal (De Dagregisters van het Kasteel Zeelandia) open to the public so far. The whole content is composed of over 16 millions words and about 46,000 annotations. New diaries will be kept uploading in the future. The diaries are arranged in chronological order and the full-text search is available. Furthermore, readers can use time classification function to browse different authors’ diaries on the same day.
Usage:Readers can access this website after registering an account with a valid e-mail. 。
This database was revamped and opened in 2024. It includes the existing ‘Taiwan Collectanea Search System,’ which contains nearly 50 million words of full-text data. Additionally, it integrates digital content from recent years related to the ‘Taiwan Shinminpo,’ encompassing news headlines, author contributions, editorials, essays, and overseas travel accounts. The total word count exceeds 12 million words, and new data will continue to be added.
Usage:The catalog and the full-text are open to the public. 。
This database was launched in 2004. Some of the digitized rare books belonged to the Library of Taiwan Government-General, Southern Archives, Taihoku Imperial University professors’ books, which were sold to National Taiwan Library, and some were collected by the Institute of Taiwan History. This database includes about 4,000 books, over 100 periodicals, and more than one million digital images.
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The online catalog is open to the public. Readers can access the digital images after registering an account with a valid e-mail. Some of the rare books can be downloaded in a PDF format.
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This database was launched in 2011 with the contents of yearly personnel directory published by Taiwan Government-General (Taiwan Sotokufu) in the Japanese colonial period. It is a digital value-added system, containing the full-text of the personnel directory. Readers can browse the established time of each department and view the transfer of administrators through utilizing this website. This database contains 950 thousand names of the employees from 1896 to 1944. In addition, the staff’s department, name, position, salaries, ancestral registration, address, and so on were recorded in the personnel directory. The system is mainly used for browsing organizational structure, searching and exporting names, and viewing the personnel directory through an e-book mode. Hence, this database is a useful tool for investigating the records created in the Japanese colonial period.
Usage:The catalog and the full-text are open to the public. 。