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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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Durham Institute for Data Science (IDAS) launch

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.

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

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 →

Accessible Text Mining with Text Tools and the Chinese Text Project

Setup Create a free account on ctext.org and log in. Make sure to validate your e-mail address by opening the link the system sent you (if not, the link above will display a warning/reminder in red to do so). Enter … Continue reading →

Networks of Text Reuse in Early Chinese Literature

Poster presented at Connected Past 2018. Abstract The phenomenon of text reuse – syntactically and semantically similar fragments of text repeated apparently independently in multiple pieces of writing, and often in works purporting to be composed by entirely different authors … Continue reading →

Accessible digital text analysis for classical Chinese

Paper presented at Future Philologies: Digital Directions in Ancient World Text, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, April 20 2018. Abstract Despite a growing interest in digital humanities as a field of study and focus … Continue reading →

Cyberinfrastructure for historical China studies

It was a pleasure to host on behalf of the Chinese Text Project (ctext.org), together with Professor Peter Bol on behalf of the China Biographical Database (CBDB), the International conference on cyberinfrastructure for historical China studies, held at the Harvard … Continue reading →