Infosystem Mongolei

An Internet-based Journal on Mongolian Affairs

Editor: Oliver Corff

Infosystem Mongolei - Overview and History.

Infosystem Mongolei was chosen as a "Best o' comp.infosystems.www.announce" by the moderator of comp.infosystems.www.announce, M. L. Grant, on April 4th, 1996. Check the Best o' c.i.w.announce page for more!

Look up New Articles in Infosystem Mongolei for the latest articles.

Questions of a more general nature concerning Mongolia and Mongolians can be found together with their answers in the Mongolia FAQ , or Mongolia[-related] F requently A sked Q uestions (and their answers, of course).

Infosystem Mongolei attempts to offer information on the following subjects:

Country and Region (called Landeskunde in German), this directory contains numerous reference files on Mongolia; including economical and other data, maps, in-depth articles on other nationalities living in Mongolia, the Buriats, etc., as well as an article about Chinggis Khaan.
MLS Computer Software for processing Mongolian, now including LaTeX2e support with the MonTeX package; though not strictly a part of MLS, the computer software corner now includes a saytime-ish utility to announce the time in Mongolian, xedencag
Soyombo for LaTeX LaTeX and MetaFont Sources for displaying and printing the Soyombo script and the Soyombo symbol. The Soyombo script was created by Zanabazar in 1686, and the Soyombo symbol is the National Symbol of Mongolia. It can be found on the flag, on banknotes, virtually everywhere ...
Legal Texts , e.g. the Constitution of Mongolia in Mongolian and English, as well as accompanying material (in English and German)
Mongolian News Digest , a chronical overview of Mongolian domestic and international news (in German)
Who is Who in Contemporary Mongolian Political Life (in German)
Language and Linguistics . Here you can find articles on Mongolian languages and linguistic problems in general as far as they are related to Mongolia.
Texts on Mongolia with no specific subject - these are texts which do not really fit into any other of the main categories of Infosystem Mongolei. A notable portion of this section is written in German.
Additional Reference Sources on Mongolia - General Bibliographies, Selected Bibliographies and Dictionaries.
Mongolia Societies around the World
Music From Mongolia and Tuva
Photographic Pictures from Mongolia
Movies in and on Mongolia

and - in future - many other subjects.

Upcoming Events

Within a limited scope, Infosystem Mongolei will try to announce upcoming events, meetings, exhibitions, etc. Please note the following:

APSITT '99 1999 Asia Pacific Symposium on Information and Telecommunication Technologies in commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of Mongolian Technical University: August 30-31, 1999, Ulaanbaatar.

Call for Papers : Infosystem Mongolei can only grow and remain up-to-date if the readers express their wishes and ideas. This can also be done in the form of articles on subjects which you'd like to see included.

O. Corff is the editor of Infosystem Mongolei. You can reach him at infomong@zedat.fu-berlin.de .