[Library Talk] The Landscape of Digital Humanities in the Academia Sinica: Collections, Tools and Projects (5 March 2019)

The Academia Sinica Digital Humanities Research Platform goes online in recent months.  It marks another milestone for digital scholarship in humanities involving the analysis of Chinese scripts using computational techniques.  The CUHK Library is pleased to have Dr. Sophy Shu-Jiun Chen, Assistant Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica to give a talk on the landscape of digital humanities at the academy.

Details:

Speaker: Dr. Sophy Shu-Jiun Chen, Assistant Research Fellow, Academia Sinica
Date: 5 Mar 2019 (Tue)
Time: 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Venue: Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library
Language: English
Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/KvisENcuRnJpK7Sx2
Enquiries: dslab@lib.cuhk.edu.hk

Biography of Speaker:

Sophy Shu-Jiun Chen is the Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, and also the Executive Secretary of Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures, Taiwan. She received her M.A. degree in Information Studies from the University of Sheffield, UK in 1997, and Ph.D. degree in Library and Information Science from the National Taiwan University in 2012. Her research interests include digital libraries, metadata, knowledge organization, and digital humanities. She initiated the Research Project of Chinese-language AAT (Art & Architecture Thesaurus) with the Getty Research Institute, USA since 2008.