The background of the formation of Korean language norms and the relationship with national dictionary compilation, the dictionary system operated by the National Institute of Korean Language, the status and reorganization direction of the standard Korean dictionary, and the characteristics and function of the new concept dictionary "Urimalsaem" in the digital age.

https://uni-Video: sydney.zoom.us/rec/share/wfk8iQSj9zrAkW5_j4xCV-B9wM2NXPEX3a50QxKonIP3nRFly1J4y3eHNlqvw2Ls.iDU3ZNNozRDNKimT Passcode: @8.t%23BqR Abstract: Developed since 2005, Heurist is an open source infrastructure which empowers individual reseachers and collaborative research projects to design, build and maintain their own richly linked databases and to generate embedded interactive websites. Full-featured database applications which would normally require months of technical work can be built without programming in days and iteratively extended on-the-fly as needs evolve. Heurist was designed by and for Humanities researchers and has been used across a broad range of projects in archaeology, history, literary and contemporary studies - currently more than 200 active projects. Heurist requires only a web browser, and can be used for free on several institutionally-supported public servers, or installed locally. Heurist is designed for sustainability. The code is a high-level interface to a standardised well-documented MySQL + directory structure. Project schemas and website design are stored as data integrated with content in a single self-documenting database per project. All servers/databases run identical software, so the cost of sustainability is reduced to maintaining a single codebase and a handful of vanilla Linux virtual servers, a minor cost shared across many projects.

This presentation introduces the Books in China Database (BIC), a web tool created by Joseph Dennis of the University of Wisconsin Department of History, and Dr. Chen Shih-Pei and Calvin Yeh of the Max Planck Institute for History of Science (MPIWG). BIC is an open-access research and visualization tool that allows users to explore the circulation of books in China from the 1200s to the early 1900s. BIC is based on over 32,000 lines of data about books and other texts held by over 700 local school libraries and government offices. Dennis extracted information from Chinese local gazetteers using the MPIWG-developed software Local Gazetteer Research Tools. Most data comes from lists of books in school libraries and commemorative records of book acquisition.

Late Imperial Anthologies of Pre-Tang Poems 明清古詩總集數據庫 is an online database of anthologies selecting pre-Tang poems produced in late imperial China (1368-1911). It is also a research tool for studying Ming-Qing anthologies and early medieval Chinese poetry. As of February 2023, this database has 23 anthologies and more than 7000 records of poem titles included in these books. Users can conduct a full-text search by poem title and poem author. Users can also browse the anthology information, such as publication edition and date. We will develop and provide more research tools in the coming months.

Popular religion contributed profoundly to the development of a shared culture in China transcending class and geographic boundaries, but the precise pattern of integration by way of religion remain underexplored. Using the data collected from local gazetteers that have survived from the Southern Song and Yuan dynasties, this article takes a bird’s-eye view of the spatial distribution of popular cults in China’s Lower Yangzi region around the thirteenth century and employs the formal methods of network analysis to analyze the pattern of connections formed through these religious ties. It teases out several complementary models of cultural integration that were at work in the Lower Yangzi, the combination of which created a crisscrossing web of religious ties that linked together a diversity of subregional religious cultures in a highly robust manner. Each a host to a great variety of popular deities associated with different subregional cultures, the prefectural seats and the Southern Song capital Lin’an played a critical role in the construction of a shared culture by providing a welcoming meeting ground for divergent communities of devotees.

This study is to construct a database of major politicians in China using "experience/position/workplace" as metadata. This graph connects with data at the "central/provincial/prefecture" levels and includes more than a thousand Chinese political elites by their resumes. Readers can query factional and geographical relations and other pertinent information, which can help in observing Chinese politics. For those interested in collaboration or offering feedback, please contact Dr. Hsuanlei Shao at hlshao2@gmail.com. This study is to construct a database of major politicians in China using "experience/position/workplace" as metadata. This graph connects with data at the "central/provincial/prefecture" levels and includes more than a thousand Chinese political elites by their resumes. Readers can query factional and geographical relations and other pertinent information, which can help in observing Chinese politics. There are various "knowledge pages" in the upper right corner: A. In the "(relFinder) Organization and Leader Network Diagram", the relationship name of "Entity Pair (Person/Organization/Location)" is provided. Click the "node" with the mouse to display more information. B. In the "(GraphExplorer) Organizational Network Graph", the reader provides the peripheral nodes of "Single Entity (Person/Organization/Location)". C. In the "(GraphNavigator) Leader Network Diagram", view the relationship between the two leaders, including related organizations or people. For those interested in collaboration or offering feedback, please contact Dr. Hsuanlei Shao at hlshao2@gmail.com. Video: https://youtu.be/ZkXD-vk2gkg

How does a reader give a text meaning? In what ways do we understand the operations of encounters between a text and a reader? Focusing on the materiality of reading, this study aims to understand how anonymous readers in late Chosŏn Korea read the poetry of Du Fu, a renowned literary canon from China. To identify the meaning of the texts as constituted by the readers, we look at both the texts and the readers’ practices by identifying the readers’ prior knowledge of the text that has been embedded and coded in their reading notes, and by analyzing the relationship between the notes and the main body of poetry. Through this analysis, this paper shows that the reading of texts was performed through constant interactions with interpretive traditions and cultural legacies. Through their practices of reading, consequently, they reveal which communities of interpretation they distinctively belong to. To identify the invisible patterns of the exegetical traditions in their reading practices, this research particularly applies methods in digital humanities, such as citation network analysis, which is an effective tool to recognize the structure of relationships among the notes, poems and many other factors of the texts.

Introducing the standard Korean dictionary, the Urimalsaem, the basic Korean dictionary and the Korean sign language dictionary, and introducing the characteristics of Urimalsaem, a new type of dictionary in which users participate in writing themselves.

Dai Kanwa Jiten, compiled by Morohashi Tetsuji (1883-1982), is one of the largest Chinese-Japanese dictionaries. Its digitization has been hindered not only by the sheer volume of information, but also by the difficulties of displaying many of the kanji characters in the current PC environment. In 2021, a web version was finally released on JapanKnowledge. This presentation will discuss how the digital version came to be, and the plans for future development.

Outline of the history, purpose, and design of our popular mobile Chinese dictionary app, and of some of the changes coming in our soon-to-be-released version 4.0. Will also talk a little bit about the current state of licensing and distribution of dictionaries on mobile devices, and on how to design a database to be easily integrated into an app like Pleco.

The Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters is not only unique in that its easy-to-understand character explanations are based on rigorous paleographic analysis, it is also a dictionary that is digital to its core, from its initial funding, distribution, all the way to the digital tools used to create it.

The electronic computer radically changed how knowledge societies work and history isn’t an exception (Nanetti 2022). First, however, we must consider that computationally intensive technology is not specifically crafted for historical sciences. That’s why traditional scholarship experiences many challenges in transitioning bookish knowledge into the digital without diluting content or value. The about 130 scholars and software engineers contributing to the Engineering Historical Memory (EHM) international initiative address this caveat as follows. 1) Analysing critical tools (e.g., information visualisation, image search, sentiment analysis, knowledge aggregation), reviewing best web practices in digital history, and developing new algorithms for scholars. 2) Inviting scholars and cultural institutions to parse and share established bookish knowledge in machine-understandable databases to test and improve the algorithms developed by EHM. 3) Instructing software engineers in translating those static databases into dynamic web-based applications with real-time updates on publications, images, and videos related to the selected items.

In the past two decades, many historical and cultural resources have been digitized as digital texts and many digital research tools have been developed. However, there is no established channel between such digital resources and research tools to allow data exchange, resulting in a huge barrier for any scholar to perform digital analysis -- scholars either have to limit themselves to work with whatever a database provides as analytical tools, or they have to download the texts from multiple databases and bring them to a specific research tool in order to apply certain analytical methods. The goal of SHINE API is to fill this gap and become the standard exchange protocol for database providers and research tool developers. We will report on the resources and tools that have implemented SHINE.

DocuSky is a platform for digital humanities research. It allows one to construct a database that supports fulltext search, browsing, post-classification, and data visualization. In this presentation, we shall illustrate DocuSky features with several use cases.

Recent developments in deep learning architectures have led to the widespread utilization of extremely large linked datasets and new types of interfaces to harness these resources and provide new methods for research, exploration and discovery. By examining the role of large language models (LLMs, e.g. Google’s PaLM, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and Ought’s Elicit) as interfaces for algorithmically-based research into historical trends one can readily identify promises and pitfalls in this new landscape and begin to draw conclusions about the ways that future scholars, researchers and students will be able to employ these new methods and toolkits to make new and groundbreaking discoveries in the 21st century and beyond.

We discuss the rationale behind, first design of, and new work on an event-based digital history platform.

ARCHITECTURASINICA Initially made available in 2019, ArchitecturaSinica is the first open-source, publicly accessible research database dedicated to scholarly research on the architecture and built environment of pre-modern China. As it stands today ArchitecturaSinica consists of three important modules: 1. A Dynamic Site Archive 2. The Thesaurus of Architectural Terminology 3. Our Bibliography ATTCAT PROJECT The annotations for technical terms published at ArchitecturaSinica are developed through student-faculty collaborations as part of the ATTCAT (Annotation and Translation of Traditional Chinese Architecture Terminology) Project. Research is presented at an annual workshop in June where experts evaluate definitions and suggest revisions. To date we have published richly annotated definitions of more than 100 different terms. We like the iterative process of web publication—we can “publish” individual entries into a centralized, interactive, expandable platform every year. But we ask: is there a role for paper publication? How do we preserve data without it?

Ancient Chinese text is composed of a continuous string of Chinese characters, and there is no space to separate words, no punctuations to mark sentences, not mention the labels to indicate named entities such as person names, place names. All of these tasks are viewed as sequence-sequence annotation tasks. Following the deep learning methodology, we trained an ancient Chinese – specified language model by augmenting BERT model with incremental training over a large ancient Chinese corpora, and built an online system WuYuDian (吾與點) which provide public service to do automatic punctuation, word segmentation and named entities extraction on ancient texts. The average performance over the test corpus of distributed over 2000 years is more than 90% precision.

The China Historical Christian Database (CHCD; https://chcdatabase.com/) quantifies and visualizes the place of Christianity in modern China (1550-1950). It provides users the tools to discover where every Christian church, school, hospital, orphanage, publishing house, and the like were located in China, and it documents who worked inside those buildings, both foreign and Chinese. Collectively, this information creates spatial maps and generates relational networks that reveal where, when, and how Western ideas, technologies, and practices entered China. Simultaneously, it uncovers how and through whom Chinese ideas, technologies, and practices were conveyed to the West. This project breaks new ground in providing quantifiable data about modern Sino-Western relations. Its intuitive interface generates visualizations, lists, and maps for use by the general public, students and teachers in secondary education and colleges, in the US and globally, with English and Chinese navigation. Advanced DH users have open access to its data for elaboration. BU’s digital infrastructure guarantees long-term sustainability, and CHCD’s international collaborations in the USA, Asia, and Europe help promote historical understanding between China and the rest of the world. The CHCD is hosted by the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University.

The Chinese Engineers Relational Database (CERD) is a database of engineers from the Chinese Republican period (1912–1949). Drawing from various digitized historical sources, CERD offers a prosopographic catalogue of professional individuals, including their education, employment, and associated institutions. Most biographical events have geographical information attached to them. Researchers can freely access and export the data to answer their individual research questions. This presentation talks about the design philosophy behind CERD, reflects on potential issues one may encounter when constructing and operating a historical biographical database, highlights potential use cases in historical research, and presents an outlook of future data linking efforts. Thorben Pelzer is a postdoc researcher in Chinese history at Leipzig University, Germany. He has published monographs, essays, and datasets on China. Recent publications include 100 Maps about China (in German, Katapult, 2022) and the forthcoming Engineering Trouble: US–Chinese Experiences of Professional Discontent, 1905–1945 (Brill, 2023).

The Treasury of Lives is an online-only biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalaya. With over 1300 biographies, we have accumulated a great deal of data. A site redevelopment now nearing completion will transition the database to Linked Open Data model.

This project will present available data sources for the spatial study of China and global changes offered by the China Data Institute and the Spatial Data Lab co-sponsored by the NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center project, the Center for Geographical Analysis at Harvard University, the Future Data Lab and KNIME. It will also demonstrate how to get easy access to those data sources and make effective, efficient and replicable data analysis with workflow based tools.

CCVG Data is a project initiated by East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh Library System. It extracted data from Chinese village gazetteers, covers from 1949 to 2019. CCVG Data allows users to download raw data from the site, and to cross search and utilize the data for teaching and researching.  This presentation will be presented by Haining Zhao, resource support specialist, and Richard Hoover, software developer from University Library System. This presentation will focus on the software and platform used in CCVG project implementation and hosting. It will contain- Project initiation (why CCVG ) How data and datasets were chosen Platform used to enter data – Drupal User platform frontend: Angular Backend: Python Flask and MySQL

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. A few days later, on August 9, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan, in Nagasaki. Shortly thereafter, Japan surrendered, ending World War II. If this sounds familiar, it is for good reason: this is the standard narrative of the end of World War II that is often found in high school history textbooks. Indeed, textbooks are often the first encounter we have with important events in collective historical memory, and as a result, they can be formative in our interpretation of past events. But what would it mean to examine those narratives in a new way, with a critical lens that challenges the authority to which they lay claim? In this project, we analyzed excerpts from U.S. and Japanese high school history textbooks to explore their parallels and differences. Along the way, we use data visualization to ask a new question: what would it mean to regard visualization as a medium for reconciliation, one that facilitates dialogue on painful events in human history by recognizing multiplicities of perspective?

We introduce a novel machine learning approach to leverage historical and contemporary maps and systematically predict economic statistics. Our simple algorithm extracts meaningful features from the maps based on their color compositions for predictions. We apply our method to grid-level population levels in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1950s and South Korea in 1930, 1970, and 2015. Our results show that maps can reliably predict population density in the mid-20th century Sub-Saharan Africa using 9,886 map grids (5km by 5 km). Similarly, contemporary South Korean maps can generate robust predictions on income, consumption, employment, population density, and electric consumption. In addition, our method is capable of predicting historical South Korean population growth over a century.

Studies of Chinese feminism considered literary representations of women as symptoms of historico-ideological configurations: (colonial) modernity, socialism, post-socialism, etc. The unintended consequence of such genealogies is the neglect of continuities spanning across the alleged “ruptures” or “epistemic shifts.” I split the modern Chinese corpus into three parts (“Republican,” “Socialist”, “Contemporary”) and use measures of statistical significance to identify terms and expressions that appear around female names and pronouns more often than expected in all three subcorpora. Adjusting the co-occurrence window size, I show that representations of women in modern Chinese literature remained stable within shorter distances, as opposed to longer fragments (passages/chapters), which were more vulnerable to political whim. Foregrounding the structural consistency in consecutive iterations of the woman trope in modern China, I make a case for thinking in alternative, macroscopic timelines and in terms of embodied technologies rather than cultural genealogies.

"Deconstructing the Construction: The Female Images in Chinese Detective Films, 2010-2020" is a videographic essay that explores the image of women in the most popular, influential Chinese detective films in the recent decade. This arts-based digital humanities project centers critical feminist praxis to make an ethnographic inquiry into cinema through videographic criticism. It not only closely analyzes cinematic works across China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other Sinophone areas but also looks into their production and reception among Sinophone communities. By creating nonlinear narration, ramified viewpoints, and associative thoughts, my work hopes to jar people into thinking about the female images in the Chinese detective film in a new way.

This presentation includes two parts: First we will introduce the Hopkins Oracle Bones Collection at University of Cambridge and its 3D images. Then we will introduce "Jingyuan Digital Series," an ensemble of tools and software designed to facilitate oracle bone research in terms of artifact classification, rejoining, decipherment and related historical studies. It involves traditional algorithm design and novel machine learning methods adapted from the fields of image processing, text analysis and data structuring. Co-authors: Mr Peichao Qin and Dr Yan He from University of Cambridge.

This presentation introduces the first and largest study of examiners' comments from the Ming dynasty's provincial exams, consisting of 18,815 comments by 2,322 examiners in 271 Ming provincial exams. The study uses a combination of digital methods, including word clouds, keyword-collocation analysis, word2vec, and Jaccard similarity. The Ming examination records were released in bulk in 2010 and provide the largest set of examination records in Chinese history. The digital reprint of the source in 2016 made it possible to conduct large-scale text-mining. The presentation uses these methods to analyze the patterns in the examiners' comments and shows that examiners valued a candidate's ability to effectively convey the meaning and thesis of classical texts, with a focus on clarity, conciseness, and elegance in writing style. This contradicts the assumption that examiners preferred candidates who excelled in the standardized bagu essay style, instead revealing a preference for candidates with genuine learning, attention to detail, and comprehension of the question through expounding on the thesis, which is more akin to "critical thinking" than lifeless memorization.