Automating Data Extraction from Chinese Texts by University of Birmingham, UK-Completed
It is designed as an international and interdisciplinary collaboration that will facilitate and promote research techniques for large-scale structured datasets derived from unstructured corpora of Chinese texts. The platform will allow researchers and students to learn how to harvest comprehensive structured datasets from texts.
ChinaVine by University of Central Florida-On-going
ChinaVine is a collaboration between the UCF Cultural Heritage Alliance, the Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy at the University of Oregon, and the Folk Art Research Institute at Shandong University of Art and Design in Jinan, China. ChinaVine's mission is to educate English-speaking audiences about the material and intangible culture of China. The first effort focuses on Shandong Province.
It is a digital humanities initiative based at Stanford that will build and harness an interactive spatial and textual analysis platform to examine the phenomenon of grave relocation in modern China, a campaign that has led to the exhumation and reburial of 10 million corpses in the past decade alone, and has transformed China's graveyards into sites of acute personal, social, political, and economic contestation.
Classical Historiography for Chinese History by Princeton University-Completed
It is a project that pulls together materials of interest to anyone doing research in Chinese history (broadly defined) but with a focus on the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing dynasty (1644-1911).
Database on Film-Related Materials in Early Chinese Newspapers by Hong Kong Baptist University-Completed
The research team spent three years to collect over 22,000 records on film advertisements, news and reviews published between 1900 and 1950 in eight selected Chinese newspapers from late Qing to the Republican era in four cities: Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Tianjin. During the research process, new primary historical documents were uncovered which greatly facilitated the reconstruction of the early cinema scene in these regions.
Digital Silk Road Project by National Institute of Information, Japan-On-going
Digital Silk Road Project is a research project to realize these goals by integrating information technology with the study of culture. To be specific, we must investigate various methods, starting from the digitization of real cultural artifacts, and the construction of digital archives, to the exhibition of digital cultural resources over the network and annotation to digital cultural resources based on collaborative work.
It is a digital project that focuses on the creation of "Asian Victorians" in Southeast Asia under British colonialism. It concentrates on the digitization and annotation of the Straits Chinese Magazine, a journal produced by the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth century.
Professor Jack Chen (Asian Languages and Cultures) wanted to use "distant reading" to interpret the Quan Tang shi, a collection of over 50,000 Chinese poems from the Tang Dynasty. CDH staff contributed expertise in topic modeling techniques and software such as MALLET to accomplish this. This project is funded by the Mellon Foundation.
From the brushes of ancient scribes: an online database and intuitive visualization interface for research into the fifth-century BC Wenxian Covenant Texts by Kansas University
The grant will fund the construction and initial data entry for an online database critical to realize the full research potential of the Wenxian Covenant Texts. The website's sophisticated search options and intuitive visualization interface will reveal complex relationships between these texts, their media, provenance, script, scribes, and language. Software will include MySQL, PHP, XHTML with CSS, HTML5. The pilot study will attract external funding, ensuring the project's completion. This will result in publications, a public website, and a new Open Source visualization interface.
Map of Origins: Chinese Clans in Singapore by National University of Singapore-Completed
A comprehensive listing of Chinese Clan Associations in Singapore. Using Google Maps, these Associations have been mapped out for geographic exploration.
Mapping the Dalai Lamas by University of Virginia-On-going
Mapping the Dalai Lamas intends to integrate digital texts of classical Tibetan-language biographies with digital animated maps, timelines, and images to present significant events in the lives of the Dalai Lamas as well as to reveal hitherto unnoticed connections between biographical events, geographic location, social and historical context, and literary and rhetorical expression.
This automatic markup tool allows users to extract names, geographical locations, and other features from imperial Chinese texts. It also links to other digital tools such as the CBDB and ctext.org. In doing so, it provides an easy-to-use platform for scholars new to the digital humanities.
Ming Qing Women's Writings project by McGill University, Canada-Completed
The Ming Qing Women's Writings project is a unique digital archive and web-based database of historical Chinese women's writing enhanced by a number of research tools.
Reconsidering the Sino Cultural Sphere: A Critical Examination of the Use of Literary Chinese by East Asian Cultures by Rice University-On-going
An international scholarly conference reconsidering the role of classical Chinese written language in the development of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
Sheffield Corpus of Chinese for Diachronic Linguistic Study by University of Sheffield-Completed
The establishment of the Sheffield Corpus of Chinese (SCC) was the outcome of a pilot project, the long term aim of which was to provide an extensive digital resource for marked-up historical Chinese texts covering different text types and genres and arranged in different time periods to facilitate study of the development and varieties of the language.
The Autumnal Rites to Confucius and Beyond by Hamilton College, USA-Completed
The project aims to explore Confucius Rites in China after 1911. The project starts from Confucius Canons and classics in China by providing translations as well as illustrations to these literature works to present Confucius rites. In Phase 2 of the project, the project focuses on the Confucius temples and the rites in temples in modern times to conduct temple studies in China and Asia.
The China Biographical Database by Harvard University-On-going
The China Biographical Database is a collaborative project of Harvard University, Peking University, and Academia Sinica to collect biographical data on men and women in China's history (Bol and Ge 2002-10). It currently holds data on about 130,000 people, mainly from the seventh through early twentieth century, and is freely available as a downloadable stand-alone relational database.
The Digital Catalogue of Modern Chinese Buddhism by the University of Edinburgh-On-going
The project seeks to organize a large amount of bibliographic data and to produce findings that point the way toward innovative research in the fields of Buddhist Studies and Print Culture.
The Language of Popular Culture: Digitizing Sino-Malay Literary Heritage by Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies-On-going
The KITLV houses a unique collection of Sino-Malay literature, consisting of around 1500 books published from 1880 to the mid-1960s. Most of the collection has been digitized as part of the Metamorfoze Project, which has thus far resulted in a corpus of 4080 high-quality OCR'ed pdfs. This valuable collection of primary sources on late-modern Southeast Asia focuses on the region's substantial population of peranakan or localized Chinese.
The Ten Thousand Rooms Project (廣廈千萬間項目) by Yale University-Completed
The Ten Thousand Rooms Project (廣廈千萬間項目) is an open-access platform currently in development that will enable collaborative research on pre-modern Chinese sources (~13 c. BCE to the 20th century). Building on the Mirador Viewer developed by Stanford University, the platform will allow users to upload images of sources and organize projects around their transcription, translation, and/or annotation. Both as a workspace for crowd-sourcing core textual research and as a publishing venue for scholarly contributions that are less well suited to conventional book formats, the Ten Thousand Rooms Project aims to establish an international online community of sinologists committed to making the Chinese textual heritage more accessible to a wider audience.
Traditions of Exemplary Women: Liu Xiang's Lienü zhuan by University of Virginia-Completed
This project focuses on the Lienü zhuan (Traditions of Exemplary Women) of Liu Xiang (77-6 B.C.), the earliest extant book in the Chinese tradition solely devoted to the moral education of women. The book consists of biographical accounts of female role models in early China and became the standard textbook for women's education for the next two millennia. The Lienü zhuan offers important insights into the culture, politics, and social structure of early China, as well as into the representation of women in various phases of China's history. This project includes a translation of the text, a book-length study, and a digital archive that will serve as a publicly accessible tool for scholarly exploration (in both English and Chinese) of women's social, legal, and ritual status as represented in the texts of specific periods in Chinese history.
中國當代作家口述歷史計劃 Oral History Project of Contemporary Chinese Authors by Lingnan University
This project provides information on various writers to readers via the Internet. Currently exhibiting twenty five writers, it contains video clips on their narratives, summaries of these narratives, biographies, bibliographies, criticisms, manuscripts and other related materials.
A Classical Chinese Reader: The 'Memoir on the Eastern Barbarians' in Hou Han shu, with notes and glosses for students of Chinese and Korean by Donald B. Wagner-Completed
Chapter 85 of Hou Han shu 後漢書, with notes and glosses for students. Includes Hangul pronunciations for glosses.