A Chinese ancient book digital humanities research platform to support digital humanities research
In: 10.1108/EL-10-2018-0213 ; 2948724060 ; 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2, 2019
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PurposeWith the rapid development of digital humanities, some digital humanities platforms have been successfully developed to support digital humanities research for humanists. However, most of them have still not provided a friendly digital reading environment and practicable social network analysis tool to support humanists on interpreting texts and exploring characters’ social network relationships. Moreover, the advancement of digitization technologies for the retrieval and use of Chinese ancient books is arising an unprecedented challenge and opportunity. For these reasons, this paper aims to present a Chinese ancient books digital humanities research platform (CABDHRP) to support historical China studies. In addition to providing digital archives, digital reading, basic search and advanced search functions for Chinese ancient books, this platform still provides two novel functions that can more effectively support digital humanities research, including an automatic text annotation system (ATAS) for interpreting texts and a character social network relationship map tool (CSNRMT) for exploring characters’ social network relationships.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopted DSpace, an open-source institutional repository system, to serve as a digital archives system for archiving scanned images, metadata, and full texts to develop the CABDHRP for supporting digital humanities (DH) research. Moreover, the ATAS developed in the CABDHRP used the Node.js framework to implement the system’s front- and back-end services, as well as application programming interfaces (APIs) provided by different databases, such as China Biographical Database (CBDB) and TGAZ, used to retrieve the useful linked data (LD) sources for interpreting ancient texts. Also, Neo4j which is an open-source graph database management system was used to implement the CSNRMT of the CABDHRP. Finally, JavaScript and jQuery were applied to develop a monitoring program embedded in the CABDHRP to record the use processes from humanists based on ...
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A Chinese ancient book digital humanities research platform to support digital humanities research
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Chen, Chih-Ming ; Chang, Chung |
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Zeitschrift: | 10.1108/EL-10-2018-0213 ; 2948724060 ; 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2, 2019 |
Veröffentlichung: | Emerald, 2019 |
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DOI: | 10.1108/EL-10-2018-0213/full/xml |
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