On Building a Full-Text Digital Library of Land Deeds of Taiwan

In order to make the land deeds more accessible to researchers and educators, the Council for Cultural Affairs of Taiwan embarked on a major effort to organize available land deeds and typed them as machine readable fulltext. Based on this collection and collections from other sources, the National Taiwan University built a full-text digital library of Taiwanese land deeds. The current size of the collection is over 23,000 which, according to one estimation, cover about 50% of all existing land deeds. The collection will be expanded to around 30,000 by the end of the year.