Literature in Digital Humanity
Literature, as an important information carrier for human civilization, owns a tremendous meaning on various eras, various geographic environments and …
Literature, as an important information carrier for human civilization, owns a tremendous meaning on various eras, various geographic environments and …
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. (George Orwell, 1984) Remembering …
The question when you first read this title could be: why do I use a couple of “closely synonyms” to describe …
The desire to amass knowledge is probably the single most important trait that distinguishes human beings to any other creature …
Focus : Research Center for Digital Humanities(Taiwan) To promote digitization of precious Chinese ancient book reservation, and coordinate between different fields of research, National Taiwan University built the Research center for Digital Humanities. After the initial task of digitization completed , many unique and delicate cultural artifacts and historical resources will be preserved and this center will be devoted to promoting research and digital information exchange. This center has achieved several outcomes related to Taiwan’s digital humanities researched. Following is an introduction to these outcomes. 1 Taiwan History Digital Library This library provides research material including archives of Ming and Qing dynasty and ancient written contracts. Archives in Ming and Qing dynasty have approximately 37,000 files, including confidential files inside imperial palace. And the ancient written contracts are around 33,000 pieces, among which land contracts are most common. Besides. There still exists contracts on business and marriage. 2 Digital Archives Project of National Taiwan University This archive provide entrances for materials with the same theme, like theme of historic relic, biological sample, geological science, archaeology and so on. The data in this archives are from the end of Qing dynasty to present. This archive offer the service of search throughout an article and article from different sources. 3 National Repository of Cultural Heritage This archive belongs to Ministry of Culture. It integrates nationwide research information related to arts, covering cultural heritage of ROC in the recent 100 years. This archive have 15 categories: painting art, music, drama, dance, cartoon, literature, architecture, ancient maps, ancient items, old photos, Chinese poem, ancient book, news. 4 Academia History Digital Archives Search System The information in this archive is validate from the year 1893 to 2002. Most contents in this archive are related to famous person and event in the contemporary era. 5 Kuomintang Party Records Archives …
While doing my research on my first blogpost, I fell upon a really interesting project hold at the Stanford University. …
The Trier center for digital humanities is situated in the university of Trier in Germany. It has been founded in …
After reading several articles from the Digital Humanities 2012 conference, I found that modern technologies have been introduced into the …
Visualization of data has long been used to help scientists better comprehend and hence make use of their findings. While …