DragonSource 龙源

Forum on Chinese Digital ContentCEAL Meeting, Toronto

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Features

• Browse-able from cover to cover– Scanned image– Text file (with copy & paste function)

• Searchable by:– Magazine/journal title– Article title or headline– Full-text

Coverage

• Thousands of magazines/journals to choose from:– Mostly popular magazines – Some scholarly journals

• Time span varies:– 读书 1979-– 大众电影 2001-– 收获 1999- (scattered issues 1999-2004)– 日本学刊 2006-

Strengths• Currency – available as soon as it is published

without time lag.• Stable access to both current and back issues• Easy to read – Cover to cover– Go directly to desired page

• Easy to navigate– ↓ ↑ to scroll down & up– → ← to go to next or previous page

• Easy to toggle between image version & Text version

Weaknesses

• Lacks several important functions:– Print– Email– Save

• Toggle from text version to image version does not go back to the same page

• The page number on the navigation bar does not correspond to the page number inside the magazine.