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MARKUS update and new tools
Posted by: Hilde de Weerdt in digital humanities 3 years, 1 month ago
Automating Data Extraction from Chinese Texts
Posted by: Hilde de Weerdt 3 years, 11 months ago
Two frameworks for understanding spatial control and political integration in Chinese history
Posted by: Hilde de Weerdt in chinese history networks digital humanities 4 years, 1 month ago
Two frameworks for understanding spatial control and political integration in Chinese history
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Isn't the Siku quanshu enough? Reflections on the impact of new digital tools for classical Chinese
Posted by: Hilde de Weerdt in chinese history digital humanities 4 years, 2 months ago
Isn't the Siku quanshu enough?
Reflections on the impact of new digital tools for classical Chinese
At a recent workshop a Chinese cultural historian whom I hold in high esteem raised the following question: "Isn't the Siku quanshu enough?" The implication was that the search functionality of one of the largest digital corpora of classical Chinese texts has made a great contribution to Chinese cultural studies, that this is sufficient, and that no more precious research time should be spent on the creation, application, and revision of digital tools. The position is representative of a good proportion of humanities scholars. We have all become avid users of databases and search engines but we are concerned about the digitization of everything. Below I respond to the specific question regarding the Siku quanshu; the points I raise can also be read as a response to the more general question why humanities scholars should not rely on a limited set of large commercial text databases and why they should take an active interest in the question of which databases and which tools can best serve humanities research questions and methods in the future.
Digital Interpretations
Posted by: Hilde de Weerdt in digital humanities 4 years, 2 months ago
Digital Interpretations
This post is based on an apology for my ecclectic use of digital research methods in the final part of a forthcoming monograph (Hilde De Weerdt, Information, Territory, and Networks: The Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center). I first review the historical roots of historians' fears about the digital and proceed with an explanation of some potential and real benefits of digital methods for philological and historical inquiry.
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International Medieval Congress 2015 by mchu, July 30, 2015, 5:11 p.m.
Team members Hilde De Weerdt, Chu Mingkin and Julius Morche contributed to the panel “Historical Knowledge Networks in Global Perspective” ......read more
MARKUS update and new tools by hweerdt, March 12, 2015, 7:38 a.m.
The MARKUS tagging and reading platform has gone through a major update. New features are ......read more
Away day for the "State and society network" at LIAS by mchu, Dec. 5, 2014, 1:40 p.m.
Team members Hilde De Weerdt, Julius Morche and Chu Ming-kin participated in the Away Day of the “state and society ......read more
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