(Note: This report was prepared by Marianne Colgrove while Professor Tsao was in China.)

The original Chinese Scroll project took the first steps in making a digital reproduction of a Song Dynasty handscroll so that it would be more readily accessible to students in the Chinese Humanities course. The purpose of the current Mellon project is to significantly improve the depth and quality of the content available in the on-line scroll. Specifically, we identified the following goals:

• adding text for most details and, within the text, creating hot spots that point to glossary entries;
• providing an "information" button with additional background text about the scroll, biography of the artist, and the Song dynasty;
• developing multi-layered details with imbedded buttons so that the user can move from the scroll to "sections" or from large details to smaller details;
• adding more details and images from transparencies taken from the original painting (they have been ordered from the Palace Museum in Beijing);
• working on color correction/consistency of details, especially those from the original scroll;
• adding background music from recordings which are not protected by copyright, e.g., published in P. R. China before 1980.

In the interim, we have made progress on several of the project goals:

• The scroll was converted to html so that it can be viewed with a standard web browser (though it will likely be too big to deliver over the network). The browser interface will make it considerably easier to add text and create links between related texts and supporting materials such as other historical and scholarly works.
• New transparencies were taken of the original scroll and will completely replace the images taken from Reed's reproduction, as well as the very dark photos of the original scroll. This will obviate the need for extensive color correction and matching.
• While on leave, Hsingyuan has been writing the text to accompany the scroll. Since good details are not yet available, she has been focusing on background text about the Song Dynasty, the scroll artist, and the top-level views.
• We have taken initial steps to index the content of the scroll. Index categories are people, animals, structures, transportation, words, and objects. Index data will be entered into FileMaker and linked to the html version of the scroll.