Korean — The Koreanist
The Koreanist — the hanmun state record and the first hangul vernacular.
The Korean desk opens on the dynastic record itself: the Veritable Records of Joseon (sillok) in the original hanmun via NIKH’s open XML dumps, joined by the Goryeosa family on the same DTD (the pre-Joseon dynastic history, its chronological digest, and the state council’s daily register), with the Seungjeongwon ilgi and the ITKC classics to follow, and the Middle Korean Wikisource shelf as the vernacular leg. The OKHC historical slice widens the desk beyond the state record: the Samguk sagi (the oldest Korean history), the Ilseongnok, the ITKC munjip mass, and the AKS/Kyujanggak/NHM old-literature shelves, each record carrying its own PD-vs-nc label.
On the shelves beside the sillok: the Daily Records of the Royal Secretariat, the Border Defense Command register and the ITKC’s classical originals in hanmun (KOGL, free use with credit); the OKHC slice (CC BY-NC) dates its records one by one; and the Yongbi eocheon ga of 1447 opens the Middle Korean vernacular shelf.
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The shelves
A source wears every desk it serves — these eleven answer this desk. Holdings are read live from the catalog and dated; a shelf with nothing synced yet says so.
| Source | Holds | License | Status | Holdings (as of 7 November 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
bibyeonsa |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 273 docs / 93,528 passages |
goryeosa |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 138 docs / 31,207 passages |
goryeosa-jeoryo |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 36 docs / 11,226 passages |
itkc |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 758 docs / 27,371 passages |
itkc-catalog |
feature module | nc | wired · manual | nothing held yet |
ko-wikisource-mk |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 1 docs / 159 passages |
okhc |
texts | nc | wired · manual | 1,198,779 docs / 3,542,662 passages |
sillok |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 743 docs / 414,321 passages |
sjw |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 297 docs / 1,896,858 passages |
wiktionary-ko |
dictionary | attribution | wired · manual | 64,457 entries |
wiktionary-okm |
dictionary | attribution | wired · manual | 1,033 entries |
Languages on this desk (live doc-or-entry counts as of 7 November 2026): lzh 1,121,896 · ko 122,823 · jpn 17,997 · en 2,735 · okm 1,039 · fra 25.
The desk’s instruments
No desk-specific instruments curated yet — the generic surfaces above apply.
Working the korean desk
The generic desk surfaces — every desk answers to these, in working order (enable once, sync, then query):
nabu enable korean # first time: put this desk's shelves in this box's profile
nabu sync korean # fetch/refresh the desk's enabled members
nabu list --axis korean # the shelf census, this desk only
nabu axis korean # the desk card: members, holdings, gold coverage
nabu search WORD --axis korean # a query scoped to this desk's shelves
One of the 30 research desks; the flat shelf map is The Library and the reasoning is docs/axes.md.