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The repair of ancient books as an important element in the protection of ancient books,has been attached great importance in China ever since.At the sairle time,the work is facing with heavy tasks,emergent time,and lack of professional personnel.Besides,due to being emphasized too much on the experience of traditional handiworks for all the time,the work is absence of modern research,theoretical conclusion,scientific standardized management,and fund supporting.All these problems need to be solved rationally.
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Objective To preserve traditional Chinese Medical (TCM)classical and also to facilitate its reading.Methods A database consisted of 10 datasets was designed on ORACLE 9i.TCM classical on health preservation and in good edition were selected from collections of the Library of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences for scanning,indexing,and abstracting.An online browser Was also developed for the database.Results An online database including 110 TCM classical on health preservation information Was constructed.More than 50% of books covered in the database are rare ones.Bibliographic information and keyworda Can be searched in different ways,and pictures of full text can be browsed.Conclusion Digitalization is a good way for ancient book preservation and utilization.Further effort for knowledge discovery from TCM classical should be done.
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The papor made a classification and summary on content and pattern of digitizing researches on chinese ancient medical books in mainland China, highlighted the major achievements and put forward a few issues to be solved.