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International Conference on Cyberinfrastructure for Historical China Studies
「中國歷史研究的網絡基礎設施」國際研討會
March 13th - 16th 2018, Harvard Center, Shanghai
Organizers
Introduction
As the digital systems essential to modern academic scholarship continue to increase in power, scope, and complexity, sustainable mechanisms for supporting their development become increasingly important. The creation of improved cyberinfrastructure – technical and organizational foundations facilitating the development, maintenance, and interoperability of complex digital tools and platforms – has the potential to greatly increase the utility of both current and future digital systems.
While some cyberinfrastructure is general-purpose and can support a wide variety of uses across disciplines, some must be developed in response to domain-specific needs. This conference brings together academics, librarians, and commercial vendors involved in the creation and use of databases, repositories, tools, and platforms in the field of Chinese studies which stand to benefit most from these developments.
Our goal is to identify the key challenges in improving scalability of digital platforms and enabling interoperability between diverse and independent digital systems in this field, and to suggest concrete steps which can be made to address these challenges.
Notes
- Links highlighted in green in the program point to pages in the Digital Sinology Wiki for each individual project (example pages: Chinese Text Project and CBDB). For projects whose pages do not yet exist or are incomplete, please help complete the information there by following the link, logging in using your ctext.org account, and editing the page to include summary information and project URLs.
- Links labeled "[E]" and "[中]" point to downloadable presentation materials in English and Chinese respectively.
Day 1: Platforms and Standards
Breakout sessions: Tools and platforms
| Chinese Ancient Books Union Catalogue Liu Wei, Xia Cuijuan | National Central Library Wei Jiahui, Zhuang Huiru, Wang Hongde | Chinese Text Project Donald Sturgeon | Ten Thousand Rooms | Ancient Books Digital Humanities Research Platform Chih-Ming Chen | Zhongnan Minzu University Digital Humanities Center Wang Zhaopeng, Shao Dawei |
| Docusky Hu Chijui, Tu Hsieh-Chang | MARKUS Hilde De Weerdt, Mees Gelein | Dharma Drum Hong Jen-Jou | Kanseki Repository Christian Wittern [E] | Academia Sinica Digital Research Platform Wang Hsiang-An | National Library Publishing Wang Tao |
| China National Knowledge Infrastructure Xie Lei | China Biographical Database Project Wang Hongsu [E/中] | Asia Network Ho Hou Ieong, Chen Shih-Pei | Digital Silk Road Kitamoto Asanobu | Souyun Chen Yiyun | Taiwan University Library Chen Kuang-Hua |
Day 2: Repositories and Libraries
| 8.30 - 10.30 | Introductions to text and image repositories
Chair: Zhou Yuan (University of Chicago)
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| 11.00 - 12.30 | New perspectives on text and image repositories
Panel session. Chair: Hsiang Jieh (National Taiwan University)
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Breakout sessions: Text and image repositories
| CADAL Huang Chen, Tu Jiangang | ChineseAll Zhu Houquan, Du Jia | Scripta Sinica Liu Cheng-yun | Chinese University of Hong Kong Libraries Louise Jones | Digital Humanities Initiative at the University of Tokyo Masashiro Shimoda | Database of Chen Chengbo's diaries Xie Guoxing, Wang Lijiao |
| Berlin State Library Matthias Kaun | East View Information Services Robert Lee, Sasha Chen | Dataverse / Peking University Library Nie Hua, Zhe Benjun | Taiwan Academic Classics Nancy Wuu | Huizhou Book Digitization Project Wang Lei | Hantang Wang Hongyuan, Wang Xinyi |
| Shanghai Library Newspaper Database Xushu | China Local History Documents Database Zhao Siyuan, Jiangqin | Ancientbooks Online Hong Tao, Cheng Ruixue | Shutongwen Zhang Choucai, Zhang Chiyi, Zhang Hu | Airiti Wu Xongxian, Zheng Xueyuan | Guoxue Dashi Li Yong |
| 3.30 - 5.30 | Libraries: Strategic plans for cyberinfrastructure and the curation of digital content
Panel session. Chair: Charles Fosselman (Council on East Asian Libraries)
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Day 3: Databases and Scholarship
| 8.30 - 10.00 | Introductions to databases
Chair: Michael Fuller (University of California, Irvine)
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Breakout sessions: Databases
| Utah Genealogical Society Steve Nickle | Zhejiang University Academic Map Platform Zhang Feng | Qing Government Employee Database James Lee, Cameron Campbell | Leiden University Center for Digital Humanities Paul Vierthaler | Chengchi University Database Projects Liu Chao-Lin |
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| Chaoxing Ye Yanming | Academia Sinica Center for GIS Liao Hsiung-Ming | Taiwan Biographical Database Chang Su-Bing | Dictionary Databases Charles Muller [E] | Ming Qing Women's Writings Grace Fong, Shi Song | Nanjing University Digital Humanities Projects Wang Tao, Chen Jing, Chen Gang |
| Local Gazetteers Research Tools Chen Shih-Pei | Center for Historical Geographical Studies, Fudan University Zhang Xiaohong, Sun Tao | Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica | Customs Database Liu Dong | Shanghai Library Genealogy Database Liu Wei, Xia Cuijuan | Kansai University Open Research Center for Asian Studies Uchida Keiichi, Tao Demin |
| 1.30 - 3.00 | Universities and research institutes: Implementation and collaboration on cyberinfrastructure
Panel session. Chair: Nagasaki Kiyonori (International Institute for Digital Humanities)
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| 3.30 - 5.00 | Where do we go from here?
Panel session. Chairs: Liu Cheng-Yun, Donald Sturgeon, Peter Bol
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