Markup Meets GIS - Visualizing the "Biographies of Eminent Buddhist Monks'

This paper describes one of the projects conducted at the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan. Tracing the dasiaBiographies of Eminent Buddhist Monkspsila is a project with the aim of visualizing information contained in the collections known as Biographies of Eminent Monks (Gaoseng Zhuan) in new and productive ways. This is achieved by linking texts encoded in TEI markup with authority databases and returning query results as KML.