At the 2024 Taipei International Book Exhibition, Academia Sinica has unveiled its special exhibition, “The Age of AI Has Begun? Now Loading…” to showcase its recent research accomplishments on AI. During the six-day exhibition, from February 20th to 25th, nearly 4,000 academic publications are on sale, with 17 talks and 5 major AI academic displays. This event leads the public into an awe-inspiring journey of innovative knowledge exploration. Find out more.

Academia Sinica 2024 Digital Humanities Research Project is an online exhibition that brings together 14 co-projects to present research results in the Open Museum, with 2 themed collections and 19 digital exhibits. Find out more.

Academia Sinica co-hosted the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium 2023 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings (PNC 2023) with the theme of “Sea Change: Renewal, Reform and Resolve in Global Arts, Sciences, and Business,” spanned three days and brought together over a hundred experts and scholars from seven countries and regions, including Taiwan, Japan, the United States, South Korea, Switzerland, Australia, and Hong Kong, to discuss post-pandemic trends in Digital Humanities. Find out more.

Academia Sinica has selected 15 latest publications and participated in the physical and virtual book fairs of the Taiwan Pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair, showcasing Taiwan's current academic research capability to the world. Find out more.

The Ministry of Culture and the Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures (ASCDC) have collaborated for a year and a half on the preparation of the "Digital Archive International Curatorial Project." Recently, the grand exhibitions of "National Treasure" and "HALL OF SHARED HAPPINESS: The Zhongshan Hall" have been unveiled at the Open Museum. These two digital exhibitions combine precious digital collections with technology-driven interactive experiences, presenting Taiwan's rich and diverse cultural facets in Chinese, English, and Japanese. Find out more.

Co-organized with the Digital Humanities Group of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, the "ChatGPT x Digital Humanities Research Lectures" invited both Dr. Kwok-leong Tang, Digital China Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Lecturer at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, to present "ChatGPT and Digital Humanities Research" and Dr. Hsiang-an Wang, Chief Technology Officer of the ASCDC, to present "Applications of the Academia Sinica Online OCR and Proofreading Platform, the Digital Analysis System for Humanities, and ChatGPT within Digital Humanities Research."

At the "Digital x Humanities" workshop, Dr. Jeffrey R. Tharsen, Associate Technology Director of the Digital Studies of Language, Culture, and History, the University of Chicago, was invited to present "Deep Learning Methods and Graph Databases for Philology, History and Archaeology." Dr. Scarlett Chiu, Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology (IHP), Academia Sinica, Dr. Chao-jung Chen, Adjunct Research Fellow at the IHP, and Dr. Ming-chorng Hwang, Research Fellow at the IHP, were also invited to respectively present on databases pertaining to archaeological materials at the IHP, observations on the inscriptions found on bronzeware from the middle and lower reaches of the Jianghuai region in the Western Zhou when employing GIS, and dating techniques in oracle bone inscriptions. 

At the "OCR/HTR Technologies and Their Applications" workshop, Dr. Luca Gabbiani, Professor at École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), and Dr. Frédéric Constant, Professor at University Paris Nanterre, as well as Dr. Hsi-yuan Chen, Director of the ASCDC, Shu-jiun Chen, Executive Secretary of the ASCDC, and Dr. Hsiang-an Wang, Chief Technology Officer of the ASCDC, were all invited to examine the development and current state of optical character recognition (OCR) and handwritten text recognition (HTR) in both France and Taiwan. All participating parties also discussed future possibilities for collaboration and exchange. 

This is the fourth time the ASCDC celebrates the International Museum Day (May 18). This year, the ASCDC has  collaborated with the research institutes at Academia Sinica and the Chinese Association of Museums to present 35 online exhibitions under the theme "Blossoming Knowledge". A total of 30 domestic research institutions, museums, art galleries were gathered together for this event.What's more, this is the first time the ASCDC has used OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia and Wikidata to create a map service named "ALL at Once" to visually present content from more than 300 institutions globally. Find out more.

ASCDC held a a series of lectures on "Knowledge Organization," featuring Dr. Jian Qin, Professor of Syracuse University School of Information Studies, U.S.A.. The lectures covered the fundamental principles on Ontology, the methods for designing an ontological model, and the opportunities for libraries and archives with Open Science and Open Data. Find out more.