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Vision and Commitment: A History of the Development of Digital Humanities at Academia Sinica, 1984-2015
The fruitful digitalization of cultural assets in Taiwan does not happen overnight. This book interviews nearly 40 people who have witnessed and participated in the development of Digital Humanities in Taiwan. It reflects in retrospect on the long way of digitalization that Academia Sinica has traveled over the past 30 years as well as pays tribute to those unnamed heroes who have contributed to the expansion of digital culture in Taiwan. |
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White Paper on Digital Humanities
White Paper on Digital Humanities is a new born child of this digital age. Emphasizing frontiers in Digital Humanities, this companion collects thirty book reviews on various subjects of digital humanity, providing detailed analyses on the field’s recent intellectual and institutional developments. The companion also includes essays on leading journals, research projects, and institutes of the field, as well as records of useful website sources. Meanwhile, this White Paper also reflects on the state of the affairs in Taiwan, and asks questions about ways in which Taiwan can participate in recent, international development of Digital Humanities. This is not only a highly reflexive and visionary manual. It provides one of the richest account on Digital Humanities in the Sinophone world, with elements of Taiwanese experiences of the field. |
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The Development and Application of Xiaoxuetang Database
This is a scholarly report on the technological development and scholarly applications of Xiaoxuetang Database for Chinese Etymology. Xiaoxuetang Database for Chinese Etymology is the largest database of the filed in Taiwan, accumulating twenty-four years of experiences and scholarly efforts. The Database boasts its collections with more than 220,000 entries on characters – including Oracle Bone Script, Chinese Bronze Inscriptions, and Small Seal Script; more than 1,340,000 entries on Chinese Phonology; and about 360,000 entries of index on Chinese Character Dictionary. It is also linked to five external digital dictionaries. It has been the subject of successful and positive receptions by scholarly experts in the field since its launch in 2013, and has accommodated more than 10,000,000 viewers. |
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Selected Digital Collections of Academia SinicaSince the founding of Academia Sinica, research fellows from various institutes have collected a large amount of data and cultural artifacts, oracle bone scripts, bronzes, files, aboriginal artifacts, audio-visual materials, maps and remote sensing images, and animal and plant specimens, for the purpose of conducting academic research. Many of these important collections have been digitized and available for users to search on the databases. Due to the enormous size of the collection, this catalogue is produced to facilitate promotion, which includes collections selected by various institutions that are worth appreciation. It is divided into three major categories: cultural heritage, documents and files, and natural resources. The content of the atlas have been added to the Selected Digital Collections of Academia Sinica. |
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“Anatomy of Historical Manga”
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Vol. 1, Relaunch Issue of Creative Comic Collection
CCC is officially back. Now a monthly magazine instead of a seasonal one it used to be, CCC foregrounds attempts at integrating talents in the Humanities, manga and technology and provides testing grounds for commercially-oriented projects. |
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"Relaunch Issue" of Creative Comic Collection
The objective of this new generation of Creative Comic Collection is to drive the trend of long and mid-length comic book series in Taiwan, to draw attention to the trends of comic books in Taiwan and even the world as well as to improve industry trend reports. |
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Walking into Taichung's Past and Present
Walking into Taichung's Past and Present introduces the first tour guide with mobile app of the city of Taichung. Garnished with eleven exquisite early maps of the city, alongside with nearly two hundred old photographs, this 'digital' guide summons the spirit of the city's past. With the uses of GIS and comparisons with modern maps, it promises a journey walking through Taichung's past and present. |
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Walking into Taipei's Past and Present
The past history of Taipei has been buried gradually in peoples' memories after generations and regime changes but clues to the past still remain. When turning a corner, we may suddenly stumble on a street view that may have been familiar before - the features of the past may be hidden within our modern city. The daily lives of the people in bygone generations still have surprising connections to our own lives. |
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Reading Antique Cartography: Historical Chinese Maps in the British LibraryThe atlas contains 129 historical Chinese maps from the British Library. The selected maps are divided into several categories: economic and transportation, famous historical sites, flood control and embankment, local administration and provinces, city, world and military focus. Most of the historical Chinese maps treasured by the British Library in the mid nineteenth century are official manuscripts or works presented to the court. Furthermore, compared with the historical maps housed in the Qing Court, they share a completely different way of being presented in terms of style, techniques and the target audience. The interpretation of historical literature, chronology of the maps' examination and the maps' information analysis was done by Dr. Lin, Tien-jen from the National Palace Museum. Dr. Peter Barber, Head of Cartographic and Topographic Materials, the British Library, made time for contributing a great paper in the midst of his busy schedule. He explores the acquisition of the historical Chinese maps of the British Library. The content of the atlas have been added to the Reading Digital Atlas. |
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Reading Imperial Cartography: Ming-Qing Historical Maps in the Library of CongressThe bi-lingual annotated atlas contains 157 pre-1900 historical Chinese maps from the Library of Congress. The maps selected for the book are either of academic significance, made with exquisite craftsmanship or rare to be seen among the collection institutes. They are organized into 9 categories: (1) general maps (2) local administrative maps (3) flood control and embankment maps (4) military and traffics maps (5) city maps (6) political and boundary maps (7) maps of temples, palaces and royal gardens (8) maps of social and economic conditions (9) mixed-theme maps. |
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2017 Report on Digital Archives & Digital Humanities Research Project
This program presents a digital promenade across a wonderland of cultures. Find out the latest work by ASCDC in a nutshell: Exhibition “World of Comics: Imaginary or Reality?” “Linked Open Data,” “Open Museum” curating program, Digital Humanities Research Platform, Automatization of Chinese Corpus and analytic tools for ancient texts. |
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Gleaning in History: Sustainable Management of Taiwan Digital Archives: 2013-2015The objective of Digital Archives is to sift through the long course of history and arrive at the quintessence of all things. Since its founding, Center for Digital Humanities has assisted all institutes at Academic Sinica in developing projects for digitalization and executed “The Project for Sustainable Management of Taiwan Digital Archives” for the Ministry of Science and Technology. Gleaning in History records this endeavor in its first three years. The content presented here largely comes from the website of Oryza Sativa: Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures, 2013-2015. |
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Digital Taiwan: Websites and Databases of Digital Archives and e-Learning
The book collects the websites and databases of digital archives and e-learning, including those built and maintained by the "Digital Museum Project", "National Digital Archives Program", "National Science and Technology Program for e-Learning" and "Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program". Through the classification and brief introduction, it is hoped to help the readers know more about Taiwan's rich cultural and digital resources. |
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When Technology Meets Humanities: The Process of Digital Archives and e-Learning
The book takes a retrospective and thorough look at the "Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program" from 2002 to 2012, which not only reports on the development process and important achievement of the program, but also invites the members to share their experiences and thoughts about participating in the program. At the end of the book are a collection of photos and an overall list of projects. |
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Digitization Procedures Guidelines (29 volumes)This set of guidelines is divided into two categories: "selected objects" and "common principles", which compares and integrates the digitization procedures of the digital archives projects around the country, accompanied by theories and practices of related digitization technology from home or abroad. It is hoped to give the readers a more complete insight into the procedures. |
