The Construction and Research on Academy Culture Database

Abstract

Academies are culture educational institutions, where ancient Chinese scholars carry out various activities concerning books which include book storing, reading, teaching, lecturing, carving to accumulate, create, and impart culture. Relying on our cultural background of the academy of classical learning, we utilize the extant original academic literatures and consult national and international scholars’ research on Chinese traditional culture of the academic of classic learning to construct Academy Culture Database, characterized by the distinctively Chinese traditional culture. This database is also built on the basis of modern information technique and complied with the international universal format of the database. We aim at revealing the essence of Chinese traditional culture to the world through the modern information processing technique and digital measures, as well as providing a convenient public research platform for home and abroad experts of academy culture studies, education history studies, Confucian studies and of culture history studies.