Category Archives: Digital Humanities

D-SEA Workshop

A workshop held as part of Charting the European D-SEA: Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies. [Download slides] Setup: Recommended web browsers: Firefox or Chrome; Safari and Edge should also work for most tasks, but have not been fully tested. … Continue reading

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PKU workshop 2023

投影片下载 正则表达式 互文性和文体分析 Demo用的文本集 論語 墨子、荀子、莊子 投影上非常简单的向量例子 明代小說集 Alice in Wonderland Merchant of Venice etc. 其它相关连接 https://text.tools/ctext/ 文本分析工具,直接在浏览器中使用。建议用Chrome或Firefox。 课后自习体验: https://dsturgeon.net/texttools/ https://digitalsinology.org/text-tools/ https://digitalsinology.org/text-tools-regex/ https://digitalsinology.org/classical-chinese-dh-regular-expressions/

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SPARQL querying for ctext.org data

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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