[KS] Online resources

[Frank Hoffmann]

Dear Brother Anthony:

Please keep posting such infos! Thank you.

For example, although I am always very interested in colonial period 
publications, I was not aware that the "Chosen koseki zufu" volumes you 
just mentioned were available online now. That's absolutely wonderful!

Let me add one practical suggestion here: 
you pointed to a particular collection, the Asami collection. If trying 
to look for digitized versions of books on certain topics, or for 
certain titles, or if looking for publications on topics in various 
media (books, manuscripts, videos, music and other audio recordings, 
websites, photos, etc.), then we can go to the *main* site at 
"archive.org":

  http://archive.org/

That just gives us many millions of more files and documents to search. 
As an example, when you search for "Korean geographical names" or a 
similar keywords, you may find this: 
http://archive.org/details/catalogueofroman00koto -- a 1903 (!) 
Japanese publication, _A Catalogue of the Romanized Geographical Names 
of Korea_ at the UBC Library, but accessible as PDF and in other 
digital media. In this case, it was not helpful as regards to Professor 
Best's question last week, about Hasan, but it is a nice example of the 
possibilities these joined database searches provide.  
_   Other, formerly independent project data bases have now been 
incorporated there as well, such as the "Wayback Machine" that allows 
you to search archived websites. For example, you can visit any of the 
240,000,000,000 archived websites as it was in 1996 or 1999.

Also, I am trying to keep up with listing the *most important* such 
online resources at:
  http://koreaweb.ws/3_books.html
and
  http://koreaweb.ws/18_history.html

Please do let me know if I miss any really essential links.


Best regards,
Frank


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Frank Hoffmann
http://koreaweb.ws