BETA RELEASE: Image DB of SAT Taishō shinshū daizōkyō zuzō 大正新修大藏經図像, 12 volumes

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Passing along some wonderful news. My apologies if this has already been posted. Writes Nagasaki Kiyonori of the International Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan:

SAT Taishōzō Image DB has been built and managed by the SAT Daizōkyō Text Database Committee (led by Professor Masahiro Shimoda of the University of Tokyo) in order to contribute to the promotion of humanities in the digital era through leveraging digital media and technologies in Buddhist studies. The project of the SAT Taishōzō Image DB, which is working to embed tags to Buddhist images in the Image Section of the Taishō Tripitaka, is being led by Mr. Tetsuei Tsuda, chief curator in the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in Tokyo, assisted by forty-three researchers of Japanese art history. The tagging work on the first two of twelve volumes is nearly complete, with the remaining work is ongoing.

http://dzkimgs.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SATi/images.php?alang=en

An overview of the database is provided below in Japanese (We will provide it also in English in the near future.)
http://digitalnagasaki.hatenablog.com/entry/2016/05/19/033403