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Crowdsourcing the Historical Record: Creating Linked Open Data for Chinese History at Scale (2022)
Journal Article
Sturgeon, D. (2022). Crowdsourcing the Historical Record: Creating Linked Open Data for Chinese History at Scale. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 16(1), 50-63. https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2022.0276

An important part of the historical record of premodern China is recorded in historical works such as the standard dynastic histories. These works are a key source of knowledge about many aspects of premodern Chinese civilization, including persons,... Read More about Crowdsourcing the Historical Record: Creating Linked Open Data for Chinese History at Scale.

Constructing a crowdsourced linked open knowledge base of Chinese history (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Sturgeon, D. (2021). Constructing a crowdsourced linked open knowledge base of Chinese history. . https://doi.org/10.23919/pnc53575.2021.9672294

This paper introduces a crowdsourced approach to knowledge base construction for historical data based upon annotation of historical source materials. Building on an existing digital library of premodern Chinese texts and adapting techniques from oth... Read More about Constructing a crowdsourced linked open knowledge base of Chinese history.

Digitizing Premodern Text with the Chinese Text Project (2020)
Journal Article
Sturgeon, D. (2020). Digitizing Premodern Text with the Chinese Text Project. Journal of Chinese history, 4(2), 486-498. https://doi.org/10.1017/jch.2020.19

The widespread availability of digitized premodern textual sources – together with increasingly sophisticated means for their manipulation – has brought enormous practical benefits to scholars whose work relies upon reference to their contents. While... Read More about Digitizing Premodern Text with the Chinese Text Project.

Chinese Text Project: a dynamic digital library of premodern Chinese (2019)
Journal Article
Sturgeon, D. (2021). Chinese Text Project: a dynamic digital library of premodern Chinese. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 36(S1), i101-i112. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz046

This article presents technical approaches and innovations in digital library design developed during the design and implementation of the Chinese Text Project, a widely-used, large-scale full-text digital library of premodern Chinese writing. By lev... Read More about Chinese Text Project: a dynamic digital library of premodern Chinese.