Digital History Berlin👉 In this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK Shih-Pei Chen (MPIWG) demonstrates how computational methods can open up new perspectives on historical questions by providing insights into research projects analyzing digitized Chinese local gazetteers and riyong leishu, encyclopedias for daily use published since the late 16th century.
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🔜 20 Nov, 4-6 pm (CET), online
ℹ️ Info & Abstract: https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/8983
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Shih-Pei Chen: Treating a genre as a knowledge system: Analysing Chinese local gazetteers and daily-use encyclopedias with quantitative approaches
Many digital humanities research projects rely on large amounts of digitized primary sources to elevate research from manual, close reading to large-scaled, computer-assisted quantitative analyses –– sometimes called distant reading or birds-eye views. This presentation reports on the case of Chinese local gazetteers (difangzhi), in particular the Local Gazetteers Research Tools (LoGaRT), designed and developed … „Shih-Pei Chen: Treating a genre as a knowledge system: Analysing Chinese local gazetteers and daily-use encyclopedias with quantitative approaches“ weiterlesen
That Paul Smith
