Archives treat for contest entrants
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SHANGHAI Library announced yesterday that 240,000 archive items — including precious manuscripts, private letters and telegrams, imperial edicts, letters to the throne, treaties, contracts and photographs — will be made available for viewing to entrants of a competition run by the library.
The second open data application development competition on April 1 is aimed at encouraging people to explore what the archives have to offer.
The competition is open to both Chinese and foreigners and competitors can register for it as individuals or as groups from April 1 to 30 on its website (http://pcrc.library.sh.cn/zt/opendata/2017). The library will organize training on May 10 to help people to understand and use the data.
Competitors will have to submit the mobile applications developed by them from July 11 to August 11, while the winners will be awarded in September.
The first prize winner will win 20,000 yuan (US$2,900) and two runners-up will each be awarded 10,000 yuan. Five other finalists will receive 2,000 yuan.
Last year, the first competition focused on utilization of the library’s data of genealogy, or family trees, and attracted 141 competitors in 60 groups — 87 percent of them from Shanghai.
A group from the Xi’an Jiao Tong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, including two Chinese students and their foreign schoolmate, won the first prize last year.
They produced an application for worldwide Chinese learners to become more familiar with Chinese surnames and characters.
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