Digital Classicist London seminar 2017
Donald Sturgeon (Harvard University)
*Crowdsourcing a digital library of pre-modern Chinese*
Friday June 9th at 16:30, in room 234, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Seminar will be livecast at Digital Classicist London YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/LEGLdtaDmtM
Rapid digitization of historical primary sources presents challenges to traditional models of digital library design along with opportunities for new approaches. This talk introduces the Chinese Text Project (ctext.org), a crowdsourced digital library of pre-modern Chinese designed to leverage a large, distributed user community to curate material in a scalable and decentralized way. This platform is used daily by over 25,000 users around the world, many of whom actively contribute to the development of its contents. Through use of open APIs, the platform also facilitates digital humanities research and teaching, as well as integration with externally developed projects and tools.
ALL WELCOME