3D technology in the Chinese history classroom: Restoring material metadata for primary sources
In 2012, the Smithsonian Institution started its experiment of turning museum collections into 3D models (Terdiman 2022). Ten years later,…
Tag: Sinology
Cracking the Oracle Bones: the Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database (Part 1)
Introduction: In April, the Zhonghua Book Company (中華書局) launched the (subscription-only) Yinxu Oracle Bone Inscription Digital Database 殷墟甲骨文數據庫 (YOD), containing…
Refine Your Search Engine Results (for Chinese Language Users)
Search engine is perhaps one of the most frequently used tools in modern digital life, revealing whatever information that you…
Shuge: Visual Materials in a Digitizing World
Shuge 書格 is a free, online database of Chinese rare books, which offers a continuously expanding collection of high-quality scans for…
Digitizing Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China: An Introduction to “Sinorelic”
What is Sinorelic? Sinorelic (华夏古迹图) is a Chinese-language online platform for collecting and sharing data about cultural heritage sites. Developed…
Visualizing North China Under Japanese Occupation: Digitized Photos of the North China Railway Archive
Digitizing the Visual Legacies of the North China Transportation Company The North China Railway Archive (華北交通アーカイブ) is an online database…