Finally, at #ChartingDSEA, two panels on geospatial project. First speaker: Gang Li, on Mapping Islamic Religious Sites in China. He reminds us that to conduct digital scholarship, we need to have the data to do so - scholarship needs to be aware of data availability biases on our research! And by combatting digital disappearance, we manage to put marginalised objects back "on the map"!
Now, Yangyang Lan on ' Building a digital map of Chinese religious texts: The Project of Chinese Religious Text Authority (CRTA)'. different religion's texts (incl. scrolls, morality books, gazetteers, periodicals, etc.) become available on one platform.
ChinaText: Users can search materials and metadata in a Wiki-type visualisation.
Goal: assess the texts' impact on identity formation.
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Following, at #ChartingDSEA :
Federica Casalin on 'Mapping China Studies in Italy (1861-1949): A Digital Archive (MaCSI-DA)'.
"Mapping" as surveying and overcoming "multifaceted blindness" as establishing a history of knowledge inbetween scientisms and context of power.
Tackle Distant and Close Viewing limitations through careful corpus, topic and glossary construction, for which different sets of #DigitalHumanities tools can be used.