Different events in promoting new research skills, tools and development have been organised to CUHK community in arousing their interest and awareness.
CUHK Data Hack organised by Digital Scholarship and Learning Garden Teams of CUHK Library with academic departments for all CUHK students and staff in showcasing their digital skills in the 48-hour challenge. Pre-hackathon workshops were conducted in enhancing participants’ data skills and understanding of data cycle, covering various different tools and skills on data scraping, processing, visualisation and deployment. More information can be found in the Data Hack page.
Data Analytics Practice Opportunity provides an opportunity to CUHK students in practising their digital skills in analysing data and resources with real data from CUHK Digital Repository, CUHK Library Archival Collections and CUHK Research Data Repository. Selected teams are guided to finish their project with a website, research poster and final presentation with their codes and programmes.
Data Champions are ambassadors from across the university who promote Research Data Management (RDM) in the eight faculties at CUHK. Data Champions serve as a bridge between researchers and the Library, offering advice to research members on proper RDM practice and collaborating with faculty members to provide educational workshops on RDM. More details can be found in the event webpage.
Digital Scholarship Team has been collaborating with Research Institute for the Humanities (RIH) of Faculty of Arts in conducting various activities to promote digital humanities to CUHK community, including
- Digital Humanities Initiatives Talks (2024/25 | 2023/24 | 2022/23)
- Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School Scholarship for Faculty of Arts student(s)
- Day of Digital Humanities (Day of DH) in Digital Scholarship Lab of University Library
Chinese Classic Text OCR Challenge has been organized by Digital Initiatives Team in 2021 & 2022 to explore and compare the excellence of the automatic recognition of Chinese characters in classics from various parties, as the Library found Chinese OCR is an important element for digital scholarship and it is the first step for research on Chinese Classics text analysis. From the Challenge researchers or the industry could study and exchange in enhancing the technology on Chinese classic texts automatic recognition, which in return enhances and promotes discovery of Chinese materials in academia for research in different disciplines.
Digital Scholarship Symposium (2017 & 2019)
Two Digital Scholarship Symposiums have been organized in Mar 2017 and Mar 2019 with the theme:
- Exploring Digital Scholarship Research at CUHK and Beyond
- (Re-)Mining Text: From Traditional to Digital
Other Workshops and Events
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Workshops in Chinese Culture and Digital Studies 2025 (May 2025)
Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) has invited the Library to co-organise the workshops in the Distinguished Lectureship in Chinese Culture and Digital Studies, sponsored by Bei Shan Tang Foundation. The first series was held in early May 2025 with Prof. Peter Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University as the speaker. The two workshops were held in Digital Scholarship Lab in University Library:
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“Chinese Classic Text Mining and Processing” Workshops (Mar-Apr 2023)
Workshops on 3 different Chinese OCR and Chinese text processing platforms have been organized to help CUHK community in mining and processing Chinese classic texts for their research:
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“Immigration Detention and Vulnerable Migrants in Hong Kong” Research Methodology Sharing Series (Feb-Mar 2023)
A research team in Faculty of Law has successfully got a Research Impact Fund from RGC on their 3-year project “Immigration Detention and Vulnerable Migrants in Hong Kong”. The series shares about the research project with a seminar and two workshops on practices in obtaining official data and conducting interviews with vulnerable groups. More details can be found in the event page. |
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Introduction to Digital Analysis System for Humanities (DASH) by Academia Sinica (30 Nov 2021)
Digital Analysis System for Humanities (DASH) (https://dh.ascdc.sinica.edu.tw/member/) is an one-stop platform developed by Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures (ASCDC) with various digital humanities research tools for researchers to retrieve important message from their research materials from its cloud environment. |
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Public Talks on “Digital Humanities and Chinese Studies” 2020 (7 & 10 Jan 2020)
The Library has collaborated with Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) in January 2020 for Public Talks on “Digital Humanities and Chinese Studies” series (「數位人文與中國文化研究」公開講座系列 2020) . Two GIS experts from Academia Sinica has shared their experience in conducting GeoHumanities and historical research. The Cyber Infrastructure for GeoHumanities and the Study of Environmental History Based on HGIS 基於歷史地理信息系統發展空間人文學及環境史研究網路基礎設施
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Standing Out from the Crowd: Author Identity (12 Nov 2018)
The CUHK Library organised a series of talks on Author Identity. Representatives from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ORCID, Clarivate Analytics, and Elsevier shared their views on how to manage author identity and track research impact in different platforms, namely iAuthor, ORCID, Web of Science, and Scopus. Five postgraduate volunteers provided onsite support and assistance for author identity registrations in the week.
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Open Access Day (24 Oct 2016)
The Open Access Day aims to share with the University community the benefits of opening up research. Themed as “Open in Action – Enhancing Research Impact @CUHK AIMS”, the event tied in with the International Open Access Week to highlight the needs of opening up the University’s research outputs through the Academic Information Management System (AIMS) and the institutional repository CUHK Research Portal.
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Events for Postgraduate students in enhancing their research showcasing skills are also available, including
- activities co-organized with the Graduate School and The Independent Learning Centre (ILC)
- The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition designed to foster the academic, presentation, and research communication skills of students which is an academic challenge for research postgraduate (RPg) students in delivering a presentation of their research to a general audience in just three minutes.
- Postgraduate Research & Learning Symposium is an annual event brings together experienced educators and guest speakers to discuss with our research postgraduates and taught postgraduates, from both the Shatin and Shenzhen campuses, on how to best communicate the impact of the research ideas & outputs in both written and oral means through engaging talks and parallel sessions.
- Research Poster Exhibition was an annual event co-organized with the Graduate School and The Independent Learning Centre (ILC) It is for current CUHK postgraduate students to showcase their research work in the form of posters to the broader university community, and to enhance their poster presentation skills.
- The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition designed to foster the academic, presentation, and research communication skills of students which is an academic challenge for research postgraduate (RPg) students in delivering a presentation of their research to a general audience in just three minutes.
- Research Café provides an opportunity for CUHK research postgraduate students to enhance their presentation skills by presenting their research to participants and facilitating interdisciplinary research ideas exchange.
