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AAS 2023

Posted on March 17, 2023 by dsturgeon

[Download slides] 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 e-mail … 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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ESSCS workshop

Posted on June 20, 2022 by dsturgeon

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 e-mail sent from … 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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MARAAS workshop

Posted on October 12, 2019 by dsturgeon

Materials from a workshop held as part of the MARAAS Conference: Asian Studies in the Digital Age at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. [Download slides] Setup Create a free account on ctext.org and log in. Make sure to validate your e-mail … Continue reading →

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Durham Institute for Data Science (IDAS) launch

Posted on September 30, 2019 by dsturgeon

It was a pleasure to take part in the Durham Institute for Data Science (IDAS) launch event. The slides from my talk, Interactive text mining and visualization in the humanities, are available online.

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