These pages contains information about how to use and contribute to the TLS - Thesaurus Linguae Sericae project.
There are four parts, which in its totality make up the contribution of this project to the study of Chinese culture.
Like the TLS itself, maybe even more, this is very much a work in progress - we hope it will be useful, but use it at your own risk!
Call for contributions: Contributions to this manual are welcome. If you would like to contribute, all you will need is a GitHub account to get you started. Details are explained in How to contribute
1 General introduction
Topics that will be covered here include:
- Background and overview of the TLS project
- Concepts and the organization of Knowledge in the TLS
- Some elements of Valency Grammar
- How to establish a text using methods of scholarly editing
2 User manual
In this part, the interface elements and basic operations on the web pages are explained. New users are advised to start here, there will be links to the material above where required to provide the necessary background.
The following topics are documenting the data format and application, you will only need to look into this if you plan to contribute texts to the TLS or work on the application program.
3 Data formats
The interface offers views on the data stored in the database. In this section, the format of the many different types of data that lie below this surface are documented. We talk about the data formats in more detail here
4 Web Application
The data are presented to the web browser through this application. The application is written in XQuery on the server side, supported by Javascript for dynamic user interface elements in the browser.