Category Archives: Chinese

SPARQL querying for ctext.org data

Posted on April 21, 2023 by dsturgeon

The Chinese Text Project includes a Data Wiki, which creates and organizes machine-readable data about premodern entities such as people, written works, bureacratic offices, places, etc. While this data can be searched from within the user interface itself, a more … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing the Historical Record: Creating Linked Open Data for Chinese History at Scale

Posted on November 10, 2022 by dsturgeon

International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing Abstract An important part of the historical record of premodern China is recorded in historical works such as the standard dynastic histories. These works are a key source of knowledge about many aspects … Continue reading →

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ctext Data Wiki tutorial

Posted on June 20, 2022 by dsturgeon

Getting started The Data Wiki is a crowdsourced graph database that contains information about entities (people, places, offices, written works, etc.) that are mentioned in premodern Chinese texts. Each “page” of the datawiki lists information about one entity – for … Continue reading →

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Constructing a crowdsourced linked open knowledge base of Chinese history

Posted on October 12, 2021 by dsturgeon

Paper presented at Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Conference 2021 Abstract This paper introduces a crowdsourced approach to knowledge base construction for historical data based upon annotation of historical source materials. Building on an existing digital library of premodern Chinese texts and … Continue reading →

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AAS 2021

Posted on March 24, 2021 by dsturgeon

Zoom link: https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/j/91336059453?pwd=azdKZ0srR0c5Z0VsNEp6bzJOV3ZuQT09 Setup: Recommended web browsers: Firefox or Chrome; Safari and Edge should also work for most tasks, but have not been fully tested. Create a ctext account and log in Check your e-mail (and spam folder) for an … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing Chinese history: distributed transcription, annotation, and datafication

Posted on November 25, 2020 by dsturgeon

Poster presented at Linked Pasts 2020 For more details, please see the extended abstract “Crowdsourcing the historical record: knowledge base construction for Chinese history at scale” presented at Taiwan’s DADH 2020 conference. Abstract The tasks of semantically annotating historical primary … Continue reading →

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Digitizing Premodern Text with the Chinese Text Project

Posted on August 12, 2020 by dsturgeon

Paper published in Journal of Chinese History Abstract The widespread availability of digitized premodern textual sources – together with increasingly sophisticated means for their manipulation – has brought enormous practical benefits to scholars whose work relies upon reference to their … Continue reading →

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Old texts in a new world: Meaning production in the digital medium

Posted on September 16, 2019 by dsturgeon

Paper presented at Materiality of Knowledge in Chinese Thought: Past and Present, Yuelu Academy Abstract Throughout history, technical innovations in the production and transmission of written materials have often had far-reaching long-term consequences for knowledge production – from the standardization … Continue reading →

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Chinese Text Project: a dynamic digital library of premodern Chinese

Posted on August 30, 2019 by dsturgeon

Paper published in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Abstract This article presents technical approaches and innovations in digital library design developed during the design and implementation of the Chinese Text Project, a widely-used, large-scale full-text digital library of premodern Chinese … Continue reading →

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Digital Approaches to Text Reuse in the Early Chinese Corpus

Posted on May 15, 2019 by dsturgeon

Published in Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture 2018, 5(2) [Full paper] Observed textual similarities between different pieces of writing are frequently cited by textual scholars as grounds for interpretative stances about the meaning of a passage and its authorship, … Continue reading →

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