Allan Cho
This presentation is based on a recent study visit to East Asia. Not
only is the digital humanities in Asia a new and highly contested area of research, the digital tools and text corpora – considered the raw material of text mining and computational text analysis – are often more abundant in English and other Latin alphabetic
scripts than they are for projects dealing with Non-Latin orthographies. Despite this, there is an emerging movement among East Asian academics both inside and outside the continent that are expertly driving new research and interdisciplinary collaborations
in the area of digital scholarship. This presentation looks at three in particular: the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive; the Hong Kong Memory Project; and the MemoryHunt photo project in Japan. This presentation will be thirty minutes in length.
Presentation: Digital Humanities in East Asia (Aug 11)
Useful links:
- http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/cgi-bin/memory-hunting/before-after.pl?projectID=3&before=8AF419FA-6B25-11E4-B0A4-8430D00D5249&after=14B8DAF6-6DEF-11E4-8AC2-E060D00D5249&lang=en
- http://www.hkmemory.hk/
- http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/memory-hunting/
Facilitator(s): Mark Christensen, Susan Atkey, Larissa Ringham, Milena Constanda