This three-year integrated project, hosted by ICLP, centers on the interpretive traditions of literature, philosophy, and classical studies in East Asian classical texts. It aims to develop a knowledge base of annotated materials, including commentaries, entries, and bibliographies, that are suitable for archival preservation, searchable access, and digital humanities analysis. The project's first year consists of two subprojects, expanding to three in the second and third years. The main project coordinates the overall research framework, liaising with ASCDC, DASH, and the Open Museum to integrate technical and academic needs.

Subproject 1, Annotated Knowledge Base of East Asian Classical Texts Advancing Commentary Practices in the Shishuo Xinyu Annotation Tradition and Its Narrative Continuum, focuses on the "knowledge structure of annotation"  and the "interpretive network of lexical entries,"  distinct from conventional historical databases. Using Liu Xiaobiao's Shishuo Xinyu zhu as a foundation, it incorporates commentaries from Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, and Japanese texts in the Shishuo tradition. It develops a structured, semantic, and searchable annotation database through five core modules: textual markup, version collation, lexical linkage, lost-text reconstruction, and semantic mapping, providing a new digital environment centered on humanistic interpretation and serving as a platform for the study of East Asian literature, thought, lexicon, and scholarly networks.

Subproject 2, East Asian Conceptual History Knowledge Database: Key Concepts and Knowledge Formation in Cross-Cultural Contexts, aims to build the first dedicated concept database for researchers, students, and the broader public. It focuses on the intercultural transmission of key concepts throughout history, from the West to the East, and within the East Asian Sinosphere. Eachkd key-concept is treated as an object of study, with attention to its definitions, interpretations, social impact, physical manifestations, and its role in shaping historical events across centuries. These relationships are mapped into a multi-layered spatiotemporal framework.

Starting in the second year, the project plans to incorporate the ongoing Sino-Vietnamese (Han-Nôm) Textual Database, expanding its scope to digital annotation in classical studies, literature, and philosophy.