About Presenter／
Distinguished Professor Hsiang currently works in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University. His professional disciplines includes automatic reasoning, logics of programming, artificial intelligence, digital libraries and archives. He established The Digital Archives and Automated Reasoning Laboratory in 1993, and the Research Center for Digital Humanities in 2007 to develop the theory and technology of digital humanities research.

Topic／What’s New and Different in DocuSky
DocuSky is a personal DH research platform developed by the Research Center for Digital Humanities. It supports facilities to collect and download text from various Web sources, processing and annotating texts, converting an excel sheet or annotated texts into a full-text searchable cloud data base with post-query classification and analysis, as well as tools for context analysis, term analysis, GIS and visualization.
In this talk we will go through briefly the new developments during the past year and discuss possible future directions.

About Presenter／
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Personal Website: http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~chaolin/

Topic／Some Foundation Elements for Studying Classical Chinese Texts of Literature and History
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About Presenter／
Jen Jou (Joey) HUNG 洪振洲 was born in Taiwan in 1976. He received his Ph.D. in 2006 from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei. He is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Buddhist Studies and Director of the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (DILA), Taiwan. He is currently engaged in a variety of digital archives projects at DILA. His research interests include authorship attribution for ancient Buddhist literature, the construction of digital archives, and digital text processing.

Topic／Planning and development of the next-generation Buddhist digital knowledge system
Since its establishment, the Digital Archive Group of Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts has been aiming to produce various digital resources and research tools to facilitate research by Buddhist institutes, and has been actively engaged in the production of various projects. In addition to the creation of digital text databases for various Buddhist studies, in recent years, the concept of digital humanities has also been combined to build the CBETA Digital Research Platform, and has completed the CBETA Online Reader, the CBETA Concordance Search and Analysis, and the DEDU Parallel Document Editor, etc., which are three convenient tools that help researchers obtain Buddhist scripture content and reference materials, summarize and analyze search results, and edit paired reading materials.
However, the tools and databases that have been completed today mainly provide textual information on the literature, and do not further deal with the deeper meaning behind the words, making it difficult for the existing system to meet the in-depth needs of Buddhist studies researchers. Therefore, in recent attempts, we hope to combine the latest information technology and work towards creating a system that can provide better knowledge of Buddhist scriptures. In our recent development plan, our main goals chiefly focus on: i. continuously improving text access service functions; ii. building Buddhist studies natural language processing tools; and iii. creating linked data and knowledge graphs for Buddhist studies, in order to plan and build related systems. In this report, we will explain our plans, progress and preliminary results.

About Presenter／
Chen Hsi-yuan holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, 1999, and is currently a research fellow at the Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He is also joint Professor of History at National Taiwan University and National Taipei University. His major field of research is the cultural and intellectual history of China, with special interest in the formation of centralized state Confucianism and its intertwined interaction with popular beliefs and local practices. Aside from academic pursuits, he also serves as Director of the Center for Digital Cultures, Academia Sinica, and Head of the Workshop of the Ming-Qing Archives (the Grand Secretariat of the Qing government), Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica.

Topic／The Digital Turn in Humanities: ASCDC's Short-term Projects and Long-term Prospects
In 2013, Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures (ASCDC) was founded as an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional organization that seeks to use digital technology to enrich research materials, upgrade the academic environment, and advance studies in the humanities. Humanities scholars face two main challenges: one is the extraction of content from research material; the other is applying analytical methods. The goal of ASCDC is to spread the texts and images scattered and accumulated in different histories and civilizations and provide quick tools to facilitate information gathering and organization. Researchers can thereby effectively deal with numerous and diverse texts and images, thus developing research topics that humanities scholars were afraid to propose or could not explore in the past.
ASCDC first of all deals with the establishment of "Linked Knowledge Bases for Digital Humanities." We continuously cooperate with the humanities institutes of the Academia Sinica to accumulate the diversified content of our digital archives. We have also explored how to transform data accumulated in the digital archives with semantic networks and artificial intelligence. The huge database is not merely a static isolated warehouse, passively allowing researchers to search for information, but it also proactively provides a dynamic space for researchers' ideation and questions. We look forward to having it communicate and complement the knowledge of those around the world.
Secondly, in recent years, ASCDC has developed "Text Analysis Research Platforms" and "Image Analysis Research Platforms": Our "Text Analysis Research Platforms" currently include functions such as semantic markup, word frequency statistics, co-occurring word analysis, text comparison, natural language processing, spatiotemporal data integration analysis, social network analysis, and data visualization; our "Image Analysis Research Platforms" mainly adopt the IIIF international image interoperability framework to conduct extensive image analysis, microanalysis, image comparison, image content re-aggregation, LOD linked open data, semantic annotation, and image functions like object recognition and image retrieval. We hope that in addition to supporting humanities scholars in conducting individual research topics, we can also form an academic community through participation in mutual research platforms to share and accumulate research results.
Lastly, the use of digital tools to showcase and collect research results is also a significant challenge so that new research can be shared and disseminated in the "Brave New Digital World." The "Open Museum" is our first attempt. The core belief of the Open Museum is that, “It is open to everyone’s participation, and everyone’s participation makes it more open.” In other words, curation is no longer a special privilege of museums. Everyone and anyone can freely curate online exhibitions. We provide plug-ins, templates, and other digital tools to enrich the presentation of digital exhibitions. With the Open Museum, we look forward to realizing the new "Three Principles of the People": "belonging to the people," "governed by the people," and "enjoyed by the people," where collections, exhibition halls, and results are shared by all, creating a beautiful digital utopia.
In this seemingly thriving but potentially dangerous "brave new digital" world, we may only be able to advance gradually and entrench ourselves at every step, cautiously attempting to use simple digital tools to reorganize scattered materials. Although the institution of humanities must open itself up to the outside world, living in the framework of this digital era may allow it to achieve an interactive balance between "discussing old learnings" and "cultivating new knowledge," thus allowing it to weather the constant transformations of the world around us.

About Presenter／
Kwok Leong Tang received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Ph.D. in history and Asian Studies from Pennsylvania State University. He currently serves as the Digital China Fellow at Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University.

Topic／Digital China: An Initiative of Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Fairbank Center's Digital China Initiative aims to promote digital methodology and tools in Chinese studies. It also provides support and services in digital scholarship to the Harvard community and beyond. The presentation will introduce the current state of the Initiative and our feature goals.

About Presenter／
Hong-Su Wang is the senior project manager of China Biographical Database project. His major tasks are the management and coordination of sub projects, database maintenance, the communication between humanities scholars and technique staffs, improving the research of Digital Humanities etc.

Topic／Popularization: Serving the Public and Contributed by the Public
One of the major targets of China Biographical Database project is POPULARIZTION. I will introduce our 2020 projects: new online inputting and query systems, new APIs, open source community and two crowdsourcing sub-projects in this presentation.

About Presenter／
Michael Stanley-Baker is a scholar of medical humanities, who focusses on Chinese medicine and religion in the early imperial and more recent times. He uses textual studies and philology in combination with Digital Humanities tools to compare plural medicines in different contexts. He is assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Topic／Studying Plural (and Polyglot) Medicine with DocuSky
We have been building multi-genre databases to search for drug terms in primary texts. DaoBudMed6D includes Daoist, Buddhist and medical works up to the end of the Six Dynasties, a period when religious actors were at their most active in Chinese history.
We have just recently published a markup of the earliest materia medica, the Collected Annotations to the Materia Medica (Bencaojing jizhu 本草經集注), a text with three different historical layers. This functions as a backdrop to pharmacological knowledge during the Six Dynasties period, and also shows the evolution of the text over time. We have used this to generate an interactive map, and will continue to develop more as time goes on.
We are currently following this with the major recipe text from the period, Ge Hong’s Emergency Remedies to Keep at Hand (Zhouhou fang 肘後備急方), which is a prime example of recipe knowledge of the period.
We are now developing solutions for better identifying technical terms, and are producing authority datasets of drug name synonymies. These can be used for tagging materia medica, and linking them to contemporary databases showing their bioactivity as well as their geographic propagation, native and introduced. The solution, developed to resolve alternate names for drugs in Chinese, also extends to drug names in other languages. We are collaborating with Kew Gardens’ Medicinal Plant Name Services (MPNS) to develop a base infrastructure, which can be loaded with multiple languages in future.
This is part of a Singapore National Heritage Board project wherein we will also compile late imperial Chinese recipe texts, and transcribe colonial-period Malay recipe texts, and recent fieldwork with the Abui tribe in Alor island, Indonesia. This project thus pilots digital and publication methodologies for historical medical comparison, as well as contemporary ethnographic fieldwork.

About Presenter／
Shih-Pei Chen got her Ph.D. from Computer Science at National Taiwan University in 2011. Her research focuses on digital humanities, in particular digital sinology. She is Research Scholar and Digital Content Curator of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science since 2014. In her working group “Local Gazetteers” her team developed LoGaRT, Local Gazetteers Research Tools, that incorporates full text search, text tagging, visual analytics, and mapping technologies to enable historians to obtain general patterns from digitized local gazetteers for their research inquiries. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University, and the project manager for the China Biographical Database (CBDB). During her term, she incorporated text mining methods to extract large amount of biographical data from historical texts to feed into CBDB.

Topic／RISE and SHINE: Constituting a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Sinology
Current digital environment for digital historians is not necessarily more friendly than it was 10 years ago, despite that there are indeed more digital resources as well as generic digital research tools available. For someone who wishes to apply certain digital methods on a specific set of digital resources, one normally would need to act as a bridge one’s self between the resources and the methods. The process can be easily blocked by either legal or technical barriers. RISE and SHINE offers a light-weight technical mechanism to fill in this gap by connecting existing rich digital resources and research tools via a set of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for exchanging digital texts. This talk reports on the recent technical progress of the project and proposes a community-based model to further develop RISE & SHINE that constitute the cyberinfrastructure for digital sinology and digital humanities.

About Presenter／
Dr. Hou Ieong Ho got his Ph.D. from National Taiwan University in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. In 2013-2016, Ho conducted his post-doctoral research in both King’s College London and Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) in Leiden University as a member of the European Research Council granted project “Communication and Empire : Chinese Empires in Comparative Perspective”. Within this project, Ho developed MARKUS, an online text tagging platform for historical Chinese texts, which won the 2016 Digital Humanities Awards (the third place) in the Best Digital Humanities Tools category. Since 2016, he has been a Research Librarian on Digital Humanities at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State library) in Germany.

Topic／CrossAsia Lab and the Role of Libraries in Digital Humanities
CrossAsia Lab is a digital humanities laboratory established by the Berlin State Library based on Asian electronic resources. In recent years, the Berlin National Library has integrated licensed materials it purchased into an Integrated Text Repository, which serves as an infrastructure for providing different types of experimental digital humanities services. Its purpose is to explore what role the library can take in the field of digital humanities and to provide the digital humanities services needed by literature and history scholars. At present, CrossAsia Lab has provided CrossAsia Full text Search, which can perform full-text search across databases; CrossAsia ITR Explorer uses visualization tools to analyze, compare and manipulate search results; and CrossAsia N-gram data sets, which are NGram vocabulary collections from (part of) the integrated databases and can be downloaded and used for machine learning purposes.

About Presenter／
Hilde De Weerdt (ORCID 0000-0002-9670-674X) is Professor of Chinese History at Leiden University. She is the author of three books on Chinese political culture and intellectual history (Competition over Content: Negotiating Standards for the Civil Service Examinations in Imperial China (1127–1276), 2007（义旨之争：南宋科举规范之折冲 (Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 2015) (Hu Yongguang, tr.)）; Information, Territory, and Networks: The Crisis and Maintenance of Empire in Song China, 2015（信息、领土与人际网络：宋帝国的危机与维持 (Nanjing: Jiangsu renmin, 2020) (Liu Yunjun, tr.)）; Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print–China, 900–1400, ed., 2011). A translation of Zhenguan Zhengyao (The Essentials of Governance, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2020) and a comparative history of European and Chinese political culture (Political Communication in Chinese and European History, 800–1600, ed., Amsterdam University Press, 2021) will be published soon. Recent articles include “Considering Citizenship in Imperial Chinese History” (Citizenship Studies 2019) and “Mediation and Communication in Medieval Politics” (with John Watts and Catherine Holmes, Past and Present 2018). She is currently working on a longue-durée global history of Chinese political advice literature.
She maintains an active interest in designing and developing digital research methods for East Asian languages. With Brent Ho she co-designed MARKUS, and with Mees Gelein COMPARATIVUS. On the history and concept behind these and related digital research projects, see “Creating, Linking, and Analyzing Chinese and Korean Datasets: Digital Text Annotation in MARKUS and COMPARATIVUS” (Journal of Chinese History 2020).

Topic／The Year in Review and the Year Ahead: MARKUS, COMPARATIVUS, and PARALLELS
In accordance with the topic proposed for this roundtable I will report on recent developments and plans ahead for the MARKUS text analysis platform and the allied COMPARATIVUS and PARALLELS text comparison services.

About Presenter／
Donald Sturgeon is Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Durham University in the UK. He holds postgraduate degrees from Soochow University and Hong Kong University, and has served as a postdoctoral fellow at Hong Kong City University and Harvard University. His research interests include Natural Language Processing, text reuse, and digital humanities.
Since 2005, he has created and maintained the Chinese Text Project, a widely used digital library of Chinese literature from the Warring States through to the late Qing.

Topic／Crowdsourcing Chinese History
Since ctext.org first went online in 2005, much progress has been made in making digital texts available to a wide audience and leveraging the benefits of digitized text. Successful use of crowdsourcing and APIs connecting to externally developed and maintained tools and platforms has demonstrated what is achievable when efforts are pooled through the creation of accessible infrastructure that enables efficient collaboration irrespective of physical distance as well as engaging disparate communities.
In this session I will introduce ongoing work to extend this combination of crowdsourcing and APIs to go beyond the literal content of texts. The goal of this project is to use crowdsourcing to perform two closely related tasks in parallel: 1) creating and maintaining annotations of named entities in historical texts, and 2) creating and maintaining a machine-readable and precisely sourced knowledge base of purported facts about these named entities. By making the results of this project accessible by API and associating entities with identifiers from a variety of relevant databases, this project both provides contextualization of historical texts within ctext.org, and reduces duplication of effort due to repeated markup of the same source materials.