Organization

ASCDC is structured as a project-focused center. It is led by one Director, three Deputy Directors, one Executive Secretary, and one Chief Technology Officer. Its highest governing body is the Advisory Committee of Digital Archives.

The operations of the Main Project Office consist of projects (content creation), information technology (website design, programming development, and platform building), and administration (organization and support). The Office’s primary task is to advance the Center’s “Innovative Cyberinfrastructure and Digital Tools” and “Outreach Initiatives: Publication and Exhibition.” Each year, ASCDC also solicits and oversees co-project proposals through a transparent, external, academic review process. ASCDC assists co-projects in establishing “Linked Knowledge Bases for Digital Humanities” and developing digital tools and technology for “Academic Research in the Digital Humanities,” collaborating with the work of institutes and individual researchers to mutually advance digital humanities research at Academia Sinica.

The duties of the Main Project Office are:

Innovative Cyberinfrastructure and Digital Tools
	Text analysis research platform: One-stop platform for source materials, digital tools, and research partners enables big data analysis for innovative research. Image analysis research platform: Assists humanities scholars to more efficiently store, present, enhance, and research large quantities of digitized historical image resources. Optical character recognition: Develop "Online Optical Character Recognition and Proofreading System," allowing collaboration partners to independently conduct full-text conversion of Chinese images. Linked open data (LOD): Develop LOD applications, establish FAIR principle-imported link data specification to enhance the data accessibility and reusability, and enable Taiwan’s digital cultural heritage to cross language and cultural boundaries to link to the world. Xiaoxuetang Database: Continue building a philological database integrating shape, sound, and meaning, that serves as a vital reference source for philological research in Taiwan and abroad. Art & Architecture Thesaurus Taiwan: Translate the Chinese language version of the Getty Research Institute’s Art and Architecture Thesaurus, adding new local vocabulary. Platform development services: Design, develop, and analyze websites and platforms for ASCDC’s various projects. Maintain and preserve over 620 associated websites. The Secret Societies in Qing Dynasty Project: Using Qing dynasty historical materials, combining text recognition tools and the construction of keyword ontologies, conduct cross-organizational and cross-regional research over a long period.

Innovative Cyberinfrastructure and Digital Tools

Text analysis research platform: One-stop platform for source materials, digital tools, and research partners enables big data analysis for innovative research.
Image analysis research platform: Assists humanities scholars to more efficiently store, present, enhance, and research large quantities of digitized historical image resources.
Optical character recognition: Develop "Online Optical Character Recognition and Proofreading System," allowing collaboration partners to independently conduct full-text conversion of Chinese images.
Linked open data (LOD): Develop LOD applications, establish FAIR principle-imported link data specification to enhance the data accessibility and reusability, and enable Taiwan’s digital cultural heritage to cross language and cultural boundaries to link to the world.
Xiaoxuetang Database: Continue building a philological database integrating shape, sound, and meaning, that serves as a vital reference source for philological research in Taiwan and abroad.
Art & Architecture Thesaurus Taiwan: Translate the Chinese language version of the Getty Research Institute’s Art and Architecture Thesaurus, adding new local vocabulary.
Platform development services: Design, develop, and analyze websites and platforms for ASCDC’s various projects. Maintain and preserve over 620 associated websites.
The Secret Societies in Qing Dynasty Project: Using Qing dynasty historical materials, combining text recognition tools and the construction of keyword ontologies, conduct cross-organizational and cross-regional research over a long period.

Outreach Initiatives: Publication and Exhibition
	Publication & book fairs: Collaborate with the various institutes of Academia Sinica to combine physical and digital publishing to promote research results and create a top-notch international academic publishing brand. Open Museum: Adopting the public licenses approach to create a digital museum service system that combines the functions of collection management and research presentation; and serves as a platform for interpreting and online presenting Academia Sinica's research results. International connections: Strengthen exchange with the international organization and raise the global visibility and influence of Taiwan’s digital culture through substantive cooperation with international academic institutions, international seminars, academic publications, etc.

Outreach Initiatives: Publication and Exhibition

Publication & book fairs: Collaborate with the various institutes of Academia Sinica to combine physical and digital publishing to promote research results and create a top-notch international academic publishing brand.
Open Museum: Adopting the public licenses approach to create a digital museum service system that combines the functions of collection management and research presentation; and serves as a platform for interpreting and online presenting Academia Sinica's research results.
International connections: Strengthen exchange with the international organization and raise the global visibility and influence of Taiwan’s digital culture through substantive cooperation with international academic institutions, international seminars, academic publications, etc.

Administration
	Human resources: Manage and allocate human resources across projects and organizational units. Accounting: Manage budgeting across departments in accordance with Academia Sinica regulations. Project review & management: Ratify and manage 2023 co-projects through external academic review protocols. Uphold policy and communications with co-projects and Academia Sinica central administration. General affairs & conferences: Organize conferences and seminars, as well as work meetings and records thereof. External reporting & inquiries: Fulfill requests for reports and information from Academia Sinica administration and the Legislative Yuan. Union Catalog quality assurance: Conduct quality control and evaluation of items digitized by co-projects that are imported into the Union Catalog.

Administration

Human resources: Manage and allocate human resources across projects and organizational units.
Accounting: Manage budgeting across departments in accordance with Academia Sinica regulations.
Project review & management: Ratify and manage 2023 co-projects through external academic review protocols. Uphold policy and communications with co-projects and Academia Sinica central administration.
General affairs & conferences: Organize conferences and seminars, as well as work meetings and records thereof.
External reporting & inquiries: Fulfill requests for reports and information from Academia Sinica administration and the Legislative Yuan.
Union Catalog quality assurance: Conduct quality control and evaluation of items digitized by co-projects that are imported into the Union Catalog.