The syllables in the haystack: Technical challenges of non-Chinese in a Wade-Giles-to-Pinyin conversion

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Bibliografische gegevens
Gepubliceerd in:	Information Technology and Libraries vol. 21, no. 3 (Sep 2002), p. 120-126
Hoofdauteur:	Thornburg, Gail
Gepubliceerd in:	American Library Association
Onderwerpen:	Library of Congress Online Computer Library Center Online Computer Library Center > OCLC United States > US Chinese languages Case studies Software Bibliographic data bases Libraries Conversion Bibliographies Syllables Transliteration Software development Project management Product design Dictionaries Bibliographic records Archives & records Chinese Bibliographic Databases Computer Software Romanization
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Samenvatting:	The technical challenges of developing software to convert Wade-Giles to Pinyin in bibliographic records that are not in Chinese are described. Systems of such transliteration for Chinese date from at least 1605, but one prevalent in the last hundred years or so in the US is the WG system. Recently the Library of Congress (LC) decided to discontinue use of the Wade-Giles (WG) and adopt the newer Pinyin form of transliteration, adopted by the People's Republic of China in the late 1950s. This meant conversion of Chinese records in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) authority file and OCLC bibliographic file to Pinyin.
ISSN:	0730-9295 0022-2240
Bron:	ABI/INFORM Global