The "Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures" (ASCDC) was originally founded as the "Digital Archives Center" (2007-2013) in order to implement the "Taiwan e-Learning & Digital Archives Program" (TELDAP). On February 1, 2013, in order to promote Academia Sinica's long-term digital humanities research and digital cultural innovation, the Center was reorganized into the cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional "Center for Digital Cultures." Its primary mission is assisting the digital turn in humanities research. 

ASCDC has two work objectives: (1) improve digital humanities research environments, build open and interlinked knowledge bases, develop access tools, and enable researchers to effectively synthesize large diverse quantities of text and image data; (2) establish organic links between research and local society, and interact with related academic fields worldwide on a level playing field.  

Core work objectives include the development of text and image research platforms, digital technology and tools, Linked Open Data (LOD) research and practice, digital museums, publication and book fair operations, database and knowledge base operation and maintenance, strengthening of international connections and collaboration, etc. Open calls for proposals are also held for "Digital Humanities Research Project" subprojects. Through these proposals from both institutes and individual researchers, we jointly advance Academia Sinica’s research in the field of digital humanities, and establish digital humanities knowledge bases.