{"id":2282,"date":"2002-10-17T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2002-10-17T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2002-10-17T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2002-10-17T13:54:09","slug":"pinyin-marking-project-completed-october-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2002\/10\/17\/pinyin-marking-project-completed-october-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinyin Marking Project Completed October 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 17, 2002 Jay Woodson and a small team  of student workers successfully completed a yearlong marking project. The  project involved remarking 13,988 Chinese volumes from the former Wade-Giles  system to Pinyin. The marking project followed from the University of Iowa  Libraries Pinyin bibliographic conversion project.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, American libraries  used the Wade-Giles system to romanize Chinese texts; however, the international  community, the U.S. Government &amp; news media adopted the Pinyin system. In  October of 2000, the Library of Congress replaced the Wade-Giles system with the  Pinyin system of romanization. The University of Iowa Libraries, like all  American libraries, converted to the Pinyin system as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2283\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/09\/jaypinyin_000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2283\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/09\/jaypinyin_000.jpg\" alt=\"Jay Woodson, Marking Assistant, with a remarked Pinyin volume.\" width=\"288\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Woodson, Marking Assistant, with a remarked Pinyin volume.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 17, 2002 Jay Woodson and a small team of student workers successfully completed a yearlong marking project. The project involved remarking 13,988 Chinese volumes from the former Wade-Giles system to Pinyin. The marking project followed from the University of Iowa Libraries Pinyin bibliographic conversion project. For decades, American libraries used the Wade-Giles system<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2002\/10\/17\/pinyin-marking-project-completed-october-2002\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Pinyin Marking Project Completed October 2002&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}