Semi-Automating the Transformation of Chinese Historical Records Into Structured Biographical Data-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Semi-Automating the Transformation of Chinese Historical Records Into Structured Biographical Data

Published:2019 Issue: Volume: Page:228-246
ISSN:2328-1316
Container-title:Digital Humanities and Scholarly Research Trends in the Asia-Pacific
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Author:

Tsui Lik Hang¹^ORCID,Wang Hongsu¹

Affiliation:

1. Harvard University, USA

Abstract

This chapter explores and analyzes the new methods that the China Biographical Database (CBDB) project team has developed and adopted to digitize reference works about Chinese history, which is part of the important process of turning them into structured biographical data. This workflow focuses on the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and has implications for the continued improvement in the technologies for digitization and research into historical biographies in the Chinese language. These explorations and outcomes also demonstrate attempts in the Chinese studies field to transform large amounts of texts in non-Latin script into structured biographical data in a semi-automated fashion, and are expected to benefit digital humanities research, especially initiatives focusing on the Asia-Pacific region.

Publisher

IGI Global

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