Understanding all this, Professor Fix set to work in Oregon, on the other side of the Pacific. Using a very small, fixed yearly stipend from the school, Fix led groups of students interested in Taiwan history and conversant with European languages to translate the enormous number of written records, photographs and maps into English and put them up on the Internet in digital form.
在這樣的理解下，漢學家費德廉開始著手，在太平洋另一端的美國奧勒岡州，利用每年固定向學校申請的微薄經費，帶著對台灣史有興趣且又通曉其他歐洲語的學生，將為數龐大的各種文字記錄、攝影以及地圖一一翻譯成英文，並經過數位化處理後上網。