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    Things with Agency in Video Games: The Intertwinement of Rules and Narratives
    Chen Xin
    Digital Humanities Research    2024, 4 (3): 104-114.  
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    Since the renowned debate between ludology and narratology, the rules and narratives of games, as well as their interrelationship, have been recurrent themes in games studies. Today, games have emerged as one of the most influential digital cultural products. Many game developers, while striving to enhance the playability of games, are also consciously pursuing exceptional narratives. In this context, the most critical question is no longer whether video games are fundamentally about rules or narratives, but rather what the relationship between rules and narratives in games is and how they can be better integrated. By incorporating Alfred Gell and other post-humanist, re-examining the relationship between rules and narratives from the perspective of things in games can deepen our understanding of this is sue. Things in video games can be categorized into different types; some are fictional, akin to those in traditional media such as novels and films, while others follow certain rules and are simulated or real. Rules endow the latter type of things with stronger agency, providing the possibility for creating a new form of interactive narrative and offering a path worth exploring for other digital cultural products that also emphasize interactivity. At the same time, it can be seen that the designer of a digital text has more and more specific means of planning the behavior of the readers (players) than the author of a traditional books, and that the person who reads the hypertext or plays the game is never freer than the person who reads traditional books.

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    Topic Analysis of Uyghur Twelve Muqam Based on Text Mining Methods

    Kai Limai, Li Beibei, Zhang Shuying, Zhong Lei, Yang Zekun
    Digital Humanities Research    2024, 4 (3): 66-87.  
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    The Uyghur Muqam is an artistic treasure developed in the long history, which integrates various artistic expressions, such as songs, dances and instrumental performances. And it is one of the worlds intangible cultural heritage. Nowadays, Uyghur Muqam is facing challenges on the inheritance, development and dissemination in the digital era, with a lack of comprehensive information resource construction and mining. We used NLP techniques to process Uyghur Twelve Muqam lyrics. Then we applied topic analysis, co-occurrence word analysis and social network analysis towards the content. This work aims to extract the topics of the Twelve Muqam libretto, establish a co-occurrence word network and Poet-topic two-mode network. Our purpose is to explore the commonality and characteristics of Uyghur Twelve Muqam lyrics and styles among different poets, showing the symbolic features in uyghur culture, values and aesthetics.


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    The Development of Stylometry in Japan: From Article Psychology to Digital Humanities
    Wang Zirui
    Digital Humanities Research    2024, 4 (3): 115-128.  
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    This study aims to systematically trace the history and development of stylometry in Japan from the perspectives of temporal evolution and content classification through a literature review. It also analyzes representative cases and characteristics of stylometry in Japanese literary research. The evolution of Japanese stylometry has exhibited distinct localized features: in the 1930s, it emerged in the field of psychology with minimal influence from Western theories; around the 1960s, the establishment of the Mathematical Linguistic Society of Japan facilitated the popularization of quantitative linguistic methods; and after the 1990s,advancements in computer technology and statistics ushered in a period of prolific research output. Throughout this extensive accumulation process, Japanese stylometry has gradually developed interdisciplinary characteristics that intertwine linguistics, psychology, and literature, establishing a research paradigm that merges the sciences and humanities and emphasizes problem-oriented inquiry. This has resulted in a wealth of practical research findings that serve as important references for domestic literary studies.

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    The Scale of Time: Rereading and Rethinking A Companion to Digital Humanities

    Yu Min, Feng Huiling, Xu Bishan
    Digital Humanities Research    2024, 4 (4): 32-46.  
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    Twenty years ago, A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004) brought together a group of young scholars to discuss, review, and examine the still-young history of Digital Humanities, creating a landmark work in the field’s development. Confronting the chaotic fog of the emerging discipline at the time, the book, with over 600 pages, presented interdisciplinary theories and practical activities, including new processes of academic production, dissemination and curatorship, offering valuable theoretical support and practical experience for both beginners and researchers in Digital Humanities. This article re-examines the key ideas in A Companion to Digital Humanities, linking them longitudinally to A New Companion to Digital Humanities (2016), and finds both continuity and extension in Western digital humanities over the past decade, particularly in areas such as Databases, Modeling, and Robot Poetics. It then compares these developments with The China Digital Humanities Development Report (Volume 1), revealing differences between Chinese and Western digital humanities in their discussions on digital scholarship, visualization, and cultural heritage. Furthermore, the article highlights that Chinese Digital Humanities research still neglects issues of interface design and aesthetics.

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    Explicit or Implicit Digital Humanities? An Examination of Search Strategies to Retrieve Digital Humanities Publications from Large-scale Scholarly Databases

    Li Kai, Ma Rongqian, Fang Zhichao, Trans. Zhang Tongrui
    Digital Humanities Research    2024, 4 (3): 20-38.  
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    As a growing research field, digital humanities (DH) is receiving increasing attention from quantitative science studies using standardized scholarly databases. However, one of the challenges of this new line of research is how to select the query strategy to produce a representative sample of the field. In this research, we analyzed the differences between two publication samples acquired from the Dimensions database using two sampling approaches, namely, a keyword search and a DH journal list. We argue that these two samples offer distinct perspectives on the conceptual landscape of digital humanities, namely, implicit DH and explicit DH, and contribute to building a more comprehensive representation of the DH research domain. We identified notable differences between the publication samples from these two query strategies, especially the fact that these two samples have a very small overlap of publications, and they also have different disciplinary orientations. Our findings indicate that future quantitative studies analyzing DH publications should use more inclusive methods to cover both the implicit and explicit types of DH contributions. Moreover, we also discussed how our findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the disciplinary composition of DH, an interdisciplinary research field.

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    The Identification and Analysis of Emotional Process of Nie Er on Revolutionary Road: Centered on His Diary and His Letters

    Zhang Zihe, Huang Tiyang
    Digital Humanities Research    2024, 4 (3): 88-103.  
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    By using the method of emotional analysis, this paper analyzes the emotional characteristics of revolutionary figures' diaries, letters and other documents, and analyzes the development process of their revolutionary spirit, which is beneficial to further inherit the revolutionary tradition and carry forward the revolutionary spirit. This paper extracts and cleans the sentence data in Nie Er’s diaries and letters, uses the Senta model to identify the emotional characteristics of Nie Er, transforms the emotions into measurable values and visualizes them, and uses machine learning to study the characteristics of Nie Ers emotional changes. From the perspective of data analysis, the emotional process of Nie Ers revolutionary road is constructed. The study found that the three key events of witnessing the reactionaries’ suppression of teachers and classmates, personally experiencing the Battle of Shanghai and secretly joining the Communist Party of China had a profound impact on Nie Ers emotional changes, and then formed his gradual decline period, fluctuation period, fluctuation recovery period and continuous improvement period. The four emotional stages of life reflect his life journey from establishing revolutionary consciousness to participating in the revolution and then to publicizing the revolution. It is believed that sentiment analysis provides a new method and perspective for the study of historical figures. By analyzing and displaying the interaction between the emotional process of the characters and the social background, it is helpful to explore the process of emotional change and the establishment and development of revolutionary spirit.

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    Review of Internet Religion Research in China (2000-2023): Bibliometric Visualization Analysis Based on CSSCI Sources

    Liu Lingyu
    Digital Humanities Research    2024, 4 (4): 100-124.  
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    Since the rise of the Internet in China (2000), the intersection of “Internet” and “religion” has become increasingly intricate, presenting a multifaceted and complex landscape. In response to this, the political, academic, and religious sectors have actively engaged in the study of “Internet religion”, spurring significant developments in this field. Visualization analysis based on bibliometrics offers a comprehensive reflection of the overall landscape and evolutionary trends in the research on “Internet religion” in China. This paper analyzes 196 CSSCl (including the extended edition) articles from the CNKl academic journal database, covering the period from 2000 to 2023. Using a combination of CiteSpace visualization software, descriptive statistical analysis, and a close reading of the literature, it conducts a multidimensional examination of aspects such as research volume, scholarly contributions, and key themes. The study aims to clarify the development trajectory of “Internet religion” research in China and presents suggestions for future directions. The findings reveal that the research on “Internet religion” in China has undergone a progression from the study of traditional phenomena to theoretical paradigm shifts and, subsequently, to practical applications in governance. The research focuses on three core themes: “concepts and paradigms of Internet religion”, “phenomena and fundamental issues of Internet religion”, and “real-world challenges and governance of Internet religion”. This body of research can be divided into four stages: the “initial exploration of Internet ‘religious communication’, with sporadic and fragmented themes” (2000-2010), the “shift from phenomena to governance, expanding into a comprehensive research focus” (2011-2016), the “emergence of diverse and digital themes” (2017-2019), and the “collaborative development of the three sectors, leading to systematic research” (2020-2023). The study identifies key challenges moving forward, including overcoming the “stacking effect”, the construction of an autonomous knowledge system, the cultivation of interdisciplinary talent, and the empowerment of governance through big data.

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    Digital Humanities: Mission Accomplished? An Analysis of Scholarly Literature

    Emanuele Salerno, Trans. Chen Long
    Digital Humanities Research    2024, 4 (3): 3-19.  
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    The field of digital humanities has evolved throughout the parallel evolution of computers, software and networking techniques, as well as the different attitudes of interested scholars. Since the earliest historical phases of this research field, scholars have been debating whether it can be considered as a new academic discipline and whether it is revolutionary in nature. About 20 years ago, the early denotation of “humanities computing” evolved to the present label of DH, and deep changes occurred in digital information technologies, as well as in their humanities applications. Meanwhile, dedicated academic curricula were launched, thus adding an argument in favor of the debated disciplinarity of digital humanities. This paper gives an account of the relevant scholarly debate, distinguishing between the early period and the most recent years; it then tries to frame this process in a model of scientific revolution.

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    Digital Humanities in the Era of Digital Reproducibility Towards a Fairest and Post-computational Framework

    Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Trans.Wan Peihan, Song Yixuan
    Digital Humanities Research    2024, 4 (4): 3-19.  
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    Reproducibility has become a requirement in the hard sciences, and its adoption is gradually extending to the digital humanities. The FAlR criteria and the publication of data papers are both indicative of this trend. However, the question that arises is whether the strict prerequisites of digital reproducibility serve only to exclude digital humanities from broader humanities scholarship. Instead of adopting a binary approach, an alternative method acknowledges the unique features of the objects, inquiries, and techniques of the humanities, including digital humanities, as well as the social and historical contexts in which the concept of reproducibility has developed in the human sciences. In the first part of this paper, I propose to examine the historical and disciplinary context in which the concept of reproducibility has developed within the human sciences, and the disciplinary struggles involved in this process, especially for art history and literature studies. In the second part, I will explore the question of reproducibility through two art history research projects that utilize various computational methods. I argue that issues of corpus, method, and interpretation cannot be separated, rendering a procedural definition of reproducibility impractical. Consequently, l propose the adoption of “post-computational reproducibility", which is based on FAlREST criteria as far as digital corpora are concerned (FAlR+Ethics and Expertise, Source mention+Time-Stamp), but extended to include further sources that confirm computational results with other non-computational methodologies.
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    Quantitative Literary Research: Concepts, Traditions, and Paradigms

    Liu Yongqiang, Chen Zixuan
    Digital Humanities Research    2024, 4 (4): 20-31.  
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    This study uncovers a long-forgotten research system by redefining the concept of quantitative literary research, tracing its historical context, and re-examining its classic research cases. In the field of literature, quantitative literary research can be regarded as the predecessor of digital humanities, as there were already evidences of literary research using such quantitative methods as statistics and measurement before the advent of computer technology. The long-standing obscurity of quantitative literary research is bound up with its fracture in history. Since the 1970s and 1980s, literary studies premised on quantitative methods have gradually declined and been forgotten. As important representatives of quantitative literary studies, Wilhelm Fucks's and Max Bense’s contributions are closely related to contemporary digital humanities research and contain profound enlightening value. The former is crowned as a pioneer of Stylometry, while the latter not only skillfully applys mathematical knowledge to humanities and arts, but also creatively uses computer technology to produce literary works, A re-examination of quantitative literary research prompts us to consider whether quantitative literary studies should remain subject to digital humanities or develop into a discipline with its own specific research paradigm. This is crucial for literary studies in the digital age.

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    Digital Humanities and Open Agenda
    Simon Mahony, Chen Xingyi, Wang Puyu
    Digital Humanities Research    2024, 4 (3): 39-46.  
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    Digital humanities, as an active promoting force of the Open Agenda, shares the same core values with Open Science: freedom, collaboration, inclusion, sharing, openness, and transparency. Digital technologies not only provide the technical foundation for realizing freedom, openness, and sharing, but they also transformed human thinking and the paradigms of scientific research. The widespread application of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, has exerted a significant impact on the disciplinary literacy, research paradigms, and trends of digital humanities. Simon Mahony, Emeritus Professor of Digital Humanities at University College London (UCL), has been active in the field for over 20 years. As a contributor, researcher, and educator in digital humanities, he analyzes the development of this field from a comprehensive perspective. Through three in-depth interviews with Professor Mahony, this article discusses the spirit of openness in digital humanities, starting from the Open Agenda and Open Science, with a particular focus on the development and future of digital humanities in the era of artificial intelligence. By conducting a comparative analysis of domestic and international discussions surrounding the Open Agenda, this article aims to uncover the various focal points and its potential development in China, providing new perspectives for digital humanities spirit of openness and exploring its expansive prospects in the new era.

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    Making Use of Digital Data to Build a Research Platform: Developing "Digital Tale of Genji”  by Cooperation of Researchers and Library Staff
    Nakamura Misa, Kigoshi MiChi, Ogawa Kayoko, Trans. Wang Zirui
    Digital Humanities Research    2025, 5 (1): 54-75.  
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    The University of Tokyo Library, prompted by the digitization of its collection of The Tale of Genji manuscripts, organized study sessions involving researchers from various disciplines and library staff to explore the utilization of digital data centered around The Tale of Genji. As a result, the website Digital Tale of Genji was launched with the aim of creating a platform for textual research on The Tale of Genji. This paper discusses the background leading to the organization of these study sessions, the development and functional expansion of the Digital Tale of Genji platform, and the significance of collaboration between researchers and library staff in this initiative.

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    Exploring the Construction of a Historical Population Geographic Database in Small Mountainous Regions——A Study on the Wenshan River Basin in Eshan County, Yunnan Province
    Bai Yujun
    Digital Humanities Research    2024, 4 (3): 47-65.  
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    Historical population geography database is an effective method to integrate and manage population historical materials with spatial attributes. Population historical materials of small mountainous regions are important resources for the study of historical population geography, population history, historical ethnic geography and other disciplines, with more obvious spatial, temporal and attribute characteristics, which are suitable for the construction of historical population database. Based on the processing method of multi-source information, the paper designs a historical population geography database structure with clear spatial and temporal attributes for the last 300 years in the Wenshan River Basin, and builds it into a database platform for population historical materials, with a view to serving the academic research of related disciplines and the real problems of population change.

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    Information Construction and Application of Modern Water Conservancy Map Based on TGIS

    Bai Jiangtao, Pan Wei
    Digital Humanities Research    2024, 4 (4): 47-66.  
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    The modern water conservancy map clearly records the regional water body features in the Republic of China period, which has important value and role in the study of historical water system changes. On the basis of “Digital History of the Yellow River”, this paper takes the “Topographic Map of Ditches and Waterways along the Yellow River in Ningxia Province of the Republic of China” as an example, and with the support of TGIS technology and theory, the modern water conservancy map is informationized with modern geographic information technology, and then the spatial autocorrelation, fractal and irrigation efficiency are used to analyze the data. The analysis results show that: The irrigation canal in Ningxia had significant natural river form characteristics before liberation, indicating that local water conservancy facilities and “annual repair” in traditional times could not overcome the continuous influence of environmental factors such as frequent changes of Yellow River road, lateral channel swing, and unstable water volume on irrigation, which was difficult to clear through manual interpretation and statistical analysis.

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    From Still to Moving Images and Vice Versa: Analysing Technological Cycles and the Use of AI to Study Cinema History

    Biatelisi Tadeo Fuica, Artuer Lezer, Trans. Liu Sicheng, Pu Xiaqing
    Digital Humanities Research    2024, 4 (4): 84-99.  
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    In the digital turn of humanities, film studies has collided with new sparks after encountering digital tools and corpus thinking, which is particularly important for film history research. Using the image retrieval function of artificial intelligence tools, researchers can efficiently capture and summarize the required images and other information from the massive digital film corpus as a theoretical premise for more in-depth research. This article introduce the second round of retrieval experiments carried out in the early film corpus of the French National Audiovisual Research Center using the Snoop algorithm: Based on a review of the loop of motion image technology and theoretical reflection on how objects that appear repeatedly in film frames absorb, reflect and shape history, the study retrieves specific objects from the historical film corpus, proving that aesthetic associations will trigger historical analysis, thereby bringing the particularity of the background of the creation of the film corpus to the fore, and analyzing the potential and limitations of this research path.
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    Study on the Spatial and Temporal Distribution Structure of Evidence Chain in the Testimony Collection of Former Japanese Bacteriological Fighters from the Perspective of Knowledge Reorganization

    Ren Yue, Tan Keming, Li Boyong
    Digital Humanities Research    2024, 4 (4): 67-83.  
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    As an oral archive, the collection of testimonies of former Japanese bacteriological warfare members is a relatively comprehensive and objective historical document reflecting the situation of bacteriological warfare of Japanese invaders in China. It is suitable for mining based on knowledge reorganization theory to supplement macro historical facts with details from an individual perspective. This paper uses social network analysis and content analysis, Neo4j graphic database and ArcGIS GIS to visually display and discover related forces, experimental locations, department composition, branch information, witness relationship, defeated evacuation route and other contents in the file text. Thus, the complex relationship between the characters in the Testimonies can be expressed concretely; Taking the supply route of plague germ warfare in Ningbo as an example, the role of the research results in revealing historical details and excavating evidence chain network is demonstrated. There were also inconsistencies in some of the testimony. It provides a useful reference for subsequent more accurate and targeted historical data combing for key figures and sites, and provides a basis for correlation with other relevant research data, and also provides a demonstration for feasible oral history archive content mining. In addition, the institute makes a network of human relations, knowledge map. It not only fully confirmed the systematization and scale of bacterial warfare of Japanese invaders in China, but also as an intuitive, three-dimensional and visual knowledge picture, it is easier to understand and can be widely used in public history education.

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    Humanistic AI: Towards a New Field of Interdisciplinary Expertise and Research

    Mats Fridlund, David Alfter, Ashely Green, Aram Karimi, Cecilia Lindhé, Trans. Hu Yiyi
    Digital Humanities Research    2025, 5 (1): 3-10.  
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    The Gothenburg Research Infrastructure in Digital Humanities (GRlDH) have participated in projects within various humanities fields that utilise as well as develop research tools and infrastructural resources that incorporate applications of ‘artificial intelligence’(Al). These applications can include natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision, large language models, image recognition algorithms, classification, clustering, and deep learning. This paper advances the term ‘humanistic Al’ to describe an emergent form of interdisciplinary practice that uses and develops Al-based research applications to answer humanities research questions together with its entangled humanistic reflection. We coin this term to make implicit and visible the epistemological and material particularities of its practice and the new forms of knowledge its affordances make possible. The paper presents GRlDH projects within ‘humanistic Al’ together with its developed Al resources and applications.

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    "Integration of Arts and Sciences: Digital Humanities in the Age of AGI”—A Review of the 6th China Digital Humanities Annual Conference (CDH2024)

    LiJiayi, LiXiang, Ma Xiaoke, HuHaotian, Wang Lihua
    Digital Humanities Research    2025, 5 (1): 11-29.  
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    This article systematically reviews and summarizes the proceedings of the academic symposium “Integration of Humanities and Digital Technology: Digital Humanities in the AGI Era” and the 6th China Digital Humanities Annual Conference(CDH2024). It provides an overview of the conference through its keynote speeches, roundtable forums, parallel sessions, press conference, and award—winning projects. By revisiting the core discussions and innovations presented at the2024 conference, this review highlights the current developments and emerging trends in Digital Humanities, while offering critical insights and practical references for researchers and practitioners in related fields.

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    Preserving Original Digital Cultural Heritage: Applications and Challenges of Computational Methods in Digital Game Research

    Adrian Demleitner, Eugen Pfister, Tobias Hodel, Fan Tao
    Digital Humanities Research    2025, 5 (1): 38-53.  
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    How can video game studies and digital humanities mutually enrich the study of digital-born cultural artifacts? This paper presents findings from Confoederatio Ludens, a research project exploring Swiss video game culture from 1968 until 2000 through interdisciplinary methodologies. By applying computational approaches such as distant viewing of visual corpora, critical source code analysis, and metadata modeling among others, we reveal previously overlooked aspects of Switzerland's video game history, such as local adaptations of global gaming trends and the distinctive technological practices of Swiss developers. Furthermore, our project demonstrates how concepts of locality and regional history contribute critically to digital humanities scholarship, challenging established narratives dominated by U.S.-and Japan-centric histories. Reflecting on our initial findings, we discuss both methodological challenges and opportunities emerging from the intersection of these two fields, emphasizing the importance of preservation, computational analysis, and local historical inquiry. Ultimately, our approach highlights the value of interdisciplinary methods for understanding digital artifacts not just as technological objects, but as culturally embedded historical sources.

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    From Manual to AI: Exploring History and Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence-Workshop Summary

    Tang Jiajun, Jin Bowen
    Digital Humanities Research    2025, 5 (1): 30-37.  
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    From January11 to12, 2025, the academic workshop "From Artificial to Intelligent-Historical and Humanistic Exploration in the AI Era" organized by the School of History and the Digital Intelligence Documentation Laboratory of Digital History Research Center of Nanjing University was held in Nanjing. From the theoretical basis and methodological innovation of digital history to the construction of databases, artificial intelligence-assisted translation and intelligent knowledge bases, to the discussion of the subjectivity of historical researchers in the era of artificial intelligence, the content of the conference not only presented the cutting-edge practice of technology-enabled historical research, but also further deepened the understanding of the transformation of the production mode of historical knowledge.

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    A Study on Wuzhi Xuanbu of Fujian in the Perspective of  Digital Humanities: Based on DocuSky Metadata Attachment Tool
    Zhou Yuxiang
    Digital Humanities Research    2025, 5 (1): 97-113.  
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    Previous research on military officers of the Wei-so in Fujian during the Ming dynasty lack comprehensiveness.Utilizing the DocuSky Metadata Attachment Tool, researchers can transform pure text historical materials into metadata.This study reveals that military deployment was frequent during the Hongwu and Yongle eras, resulting a higher number of southern officers compared to their northern counterparts within the Wei-so in Fujian. Southern military officials were predominantly founding heroes of the Ming dynasty, while those from the north often rose to prominence due to the Jingnan Campaign, occupying higher military positions within the garrisons. Furthermore, most of Fujian garrison officials were camp followers and submitters, while drafted soldiers were not the main part.Given Fujian's strategic location along the southeast coast, its garrisons primarily concentrated on anti-piracy and defense operations, leading to heavy military service and limited promotion opportunities for local officials.The application of the DocuSky introduces innovative tools for studying of the “partial resume” of garrison officials, thereby enriching research on Wuzhi Xuanbu.
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    Towards Digital Accessibility: Concepts, Standards and Pathways
    Huang Wenhan, LiuChenxi, CaiZhuoxi, Zheng Jiaqi, Zhang Zhejun
    Digital Humanities Research    2025, 5 (1): 114-128.  
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    By exploring the concept of digital accessibility and tracing the evolution of the construction of accessible environments at home and abroad, the study proposes a normative path for safeguarding the rights of persons with disabilities in the digital era. The traditional concept of accessibility construction focuses on specialization and particularization, which corresponds to the risk of forming a relatively closed "data greenhouse" or "digital island". The core of creating digital accessibility lies in deeply embedding “universal design” and “standardized standards” into the construction of accessible environments, thereby breaking away from the shallow logic of information accessibility and enhancing the level of digital humanistic care for people with disabilities. To uphold the constitutional principle of "respecting and safeguarding human rights, " it is essential to make full use of the rapid generative capabilities and precise perceived services of artificial intelligence in the future. Furthermore, it is necessary to prospectively establish legal and technical norms to gradually popularize accessibility options or preset supporting tools in mainstream products and public services, to ultimately realize the comprehensive transformation of information accessibility into digital accessibility.

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    Construction and Application of A Two-Stage Embroidery Pattern Automatic Recognition and Segmentation Model for Digital Humanities

    Bao Yalin
    Digital Humanities Research    2025, 5 (1): 76-96.  
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    Image segmentation methods have been used in the field of recognition and segmentation of traditional embroidery patterns. However, due to the characteristics of complex edges, cumbersome details and diverse types of embroidery patterns, traditional image segmentation methods are difficult to meet the requirements of high precision and high efficiency in practical applications. So, this paper presents a dual-stage embroidery pattern recognition and segmentation method based on a YOLO and U-Net cascade. In the first stage, the YOLO algorithm is employed for object detection, quickly and accurately locating the embroidery patterns within the image. In the second stage, an enhanced U-Net algorithm is used for semantic segmentation. The U-Net encoder structure is improved by incorporating a ResBlock-CBAM module as the backbone, enhancing the effectiveness of feature extraction, and integrating an ASPP module for feature enhancement to ensure effective extraction and fusion of various features. This dual-stage cascade network captures the fine details and contextual information of embroidery images, enabling precise segmentation that preserves complex edges and details. The experimental results show that the algorithm in this study reaches 0.8584 and 0.8376 in the evaluation indicators such as Dice and MioU, respectively, and the accuracy rate reaches 84.53%, which is significantly better than other advanced segmentation algorithms. At the same time, this paper establishes an "embroidery intelligent recognition and segmentation" system to achieve efficient and automatic extraction and processing of embroidery patterns. This method not only provides technical support for the digital preservation and transmission of embroidery patterns, but also paves the way for the modernization and customization of embroidery design.

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