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	DOI:10.3366/ijhac.2016.0164

Corpus ID: 52294922Modelling East Asian Calendars in an Open Source Authority Database
@article{Bingenheimer2016ModellingEA,
  title={Modelling East Asian Calendars in an Open Source Authority Database},
  author={Marcus Bingenheimer and Jen-Jou Hung and Simon Wiles and Boyong Zhang},
  journal={Int. J. Humanit. Arts Comput.},
  year={2016},
  volume={10},
  pages={127-144}
}
	Marcus Bingenheimer, Jen-Jou Hung, +1 author Boyong Zhang
	Published 2016
	Computer Science, Geography
	Int. J. Humanit. Arts Comput.

This paper discusses issues concerning the creation of conversion tables for East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) and European calendars and describes the development of an open source calendar database as part of the history of converting East Asian calendars. East Asian calendars encode both astronomical and political cycles. As a result, date conversion must in practice rely on complex look-up tables and cannot be done merely algorithmically. We provide a detailed overview of the history… Expand

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