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    08 August 2022, Volume 2 Issue 3
    Towards Language Sensitivity and Diversity in the Digital Humanities
    2022, 2(3):  3-20. 
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    Recent years have seen a growing focus on diversity in the digital humanities,and yet there has been rather less work on geolinguistic diversity,and the research which has been carried out often focuses on the structures of geographic representation in the field or has viewed ‘language’ as a technical or linguistic problem to solve. This article takes a different view,namely that we need to consider this diversity through multiple ‘frames’ of digitally-mediated language and culture,and that this is not just a question of epistemic justice or community manners,but that the digital humanities also need to address more actively challenges around global dynamics of digital multilingualism,transcultural exchange and geodiversity in its research agenda. This paper explores these questions through the prism of ‘language indifference’ in digital studies and, responding to Galina’s call for better data on the state of geolinguistic diversity in DH(2014),it articulates possible frameworks for addressing this diversity in a strategic, programmatic and research-led manner. We conclude by exploring the role of a greater multilingual focus in what Liu calls ‘the techne of diversity’ in digital humanities(2020),and contend that the digital humanities has much to gain,and much to offer,in engaging more fully with the languages-related cultural challenges of our era.

    Text Labeling and Digital Reading:A Discussion Starting with Three Projects “Mapping the Structure of Feeling about Illnesses,” “Ye Dehui’s Book Collections:A Knowledge Map of the Late Qing Early Republic Chinese Intellectuals,” and “Religious Itinerancy”
    Lo Peihsuan, Chen Yalin, Ethereal Dripdrops
    2022, 2(3):  21-38. 
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    This article aims to share the process and thoughts of Dr. Yuanju Liu(Research Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy,Academia Sinica, Taiwan)and her research team’s gradually getting involved in the study of digital humanities since 2009. In the past fourteen years, they conducted a number of key research projects such as “Compiling,Criticism and GIS Map for Dai Zuo's Journal of the Campaign to the West”,“Mapping the Structure of Feeling about Illnesses;Illness Wring of the Anecdotes during the Wei,Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties and GIS Databases”,“Digital Research to the Circulation of Ye Dehui’ s Block Printing and of His Personal Networks”,“To Wander in the World;Travel Narratives in Buddhist Monk Biographies in Diachronic Perspective Studied with Automatic Labeling,Event Extraction, and Quantification of Time and Space”,“The Worlds of Doctrine and Emotion in Chinese Buddhist Illness Narratives;Digital Humanities Research on Eminent Buddhist Monk Biographies”,and “Digital Research on the Image of the Periphery during the Wei,Jin,Northern and Southern Dynasties”. Dr. Yuanju Liu and her research team accumulated experience using various digital tools while establishing at least four academic websites to share their research with the public. This article reflects and summarizes how to use text labeling and digital reading as research methods in digital humanities research,and the operating principles that must be paid attention to.
    Digital Humanities Construction in the Development of Smart MuseumsThe Practice of Shanghai Museum as an Example
    Liu Jian
    2022, 2(3):  39-49. 
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    It has been nearly 10 years since the emergence of the concept of smart museums. In the practice of smart museum construction, after collecting a large amount of data, the use of the data appears to be less than satisfactory, and to some extent this can be said to be a bottleneck faced by the construction of smart museums. How to break through this stagnation and start from data collection, management, and mining to form a new model of museum knowledge production and organization services, so that the core functions of smart museums, such as smart management, smart conservation, and smart services, can operate firmly, and in this regard, the emerging digital humanities research in the humanities provides good methods and tools to learn from. 
    Smart Architectural and Urban Heritage:An Applied Reflection
    Stefano Brusaporci Pamela Maiezza Trans Trans. Xie Shuning
    2022, 2(3):  50-60. 
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    The aim of this paper is to present the use of 3D models and augmented reality(AR)to study and communicate architectural and urban values and,therefore,favor the development of dedicated forms of “ smart heritage”.The study rises from a reflection on the concept of “heritage”,as defined in the international documents,intended as an evolving idea that puts together tangible and intangible aspects. Moreover,digital technologies favor “phygital” applications where the digital dimension support the traditional ones. In this way,AR allows the superimposition of multimedia information to heritage,respecting the historical matter of the artefacts,and supporting a “smart heritage” application.
    In particular,mobile AR,with real-time and ubiquitous visualizations,offers the opportunity to show past urban and architectural configurations to investigate and describe the transformations that have led to the current configuration,and
    consequently highlighting the present historical and architectural values of the buildings. Two case studies are presented:the square of St. Basilio Monastery,with its historical transformations,and the Basilica of Collemaggio,a pivotal
    building in the rites of “PerdonanzaCelestiniana”.
    The Political Network Analysis of Shuhan Based on Three Kingdoms Annals
    Sheng Yihan Huo Chaoguang
    2022, 2(3):  61-74. 
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    Although the rise and fall is a political phenomenon,it is actually caused by various objective political forces behind it. In order to gain insight into the complicated relations of the Shuhan regime,this paper quantifies the relations of Shuhan political figures through text mining methods and analyzes the structure of Shuhan political network from four aspects:overall characteristics of Shuhan political network,core political figures,internal historical changes, and external co-temporal comparison with other countries,based on the Three Kingdoms Annals. The study shows that the power division and political structure changes of the Shuhan regime were related to the place of origin;compared with Wei and Wu,the Shuhan regime had more centralized power and smoother power transition. With objective facts, this study responds to the debate on the transmutation of the political structure of the Shuhan Dynasty from a global historical perspective,proposes new research entry points and also provides a reference for making full use of digital technology for historical research.
    Public Benefit Open Academic Database:The Practice and Thinking of the Modern History Database Platform#br#
    Zhang Yiming
    2022, 2(3):  75-82. 
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    With its massive literature resources and free services,the Modern History Database Platform has taken place in the market where commercial databases are abundant. Modern History Database Platform has created a fair academic environment between schools, between researchers and history lovers, and between domestic and foreign countries, which has been particularly evident during the COVID-19 period. In addition to creating a convenient database, the Modern History Database Platform continuously explores a new model of public benefit and open academic database serving society by mining historical documents collected by folk and carrying out history teaching activities for middle school students. Relying on the solidsupport of the country,this platform gradually breaks between information technology and historical documents, database and history between the researchers and the barriers between literature databases. It cultivates interdisciplinary talents with both historical background and primarycomputer drive. With the
    help of full-text retrieval technology power,through the underlying logic to realize data sharing, this platform eliminates the " knowledge monopoly" caused by the commercial database and better serves society. All these will become the goal of the public benefit open academic database represented by the Modern History Database Platform.
    Integrated Interdisciplinary Workflows for Research on Historical Newspapers: Perspectives from Humanities Scholars,Computer Scientists, and Librarians#br# #br#
    Sarah Oberbichler Emanuela Boroş Antoine Doucet Jani Marjanen Eva Pfanzelter Juha Rautiainen Hannu Toivonen Mikko Tolonen Trans. Zhang Chenwen
    2022, 2(3):  83-100. 
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    This article considers the interdisciplinary opportunities and challenges of working with digital cultural heritage, such as digitized historical newspapers, and proposes an integrated digital hermeneutics workflow to combine purely disciplinary research approaches from computer science, humanities, and library work. Common interests and motivations of the above-mentioned disciplines have resulted in interdisciplinary projects and collaborations such as the NewsEye project, which is working on novel solutions on how digital heritage data is(re)searched, accessed, used, and analyzed. We argue that collaborations of different disciplines can benefit from a good understanding of the workflows and traditions of each of the disciplines involved but must find integrated approaches to successfully exploit the full potential of digitized sources. The paper is furthermore providing an insight into digital tools, methods ,and hermeneutics in action, showing that integrated interdisciplinary research needs to build something in between the disciplines while respecting and understanding each others expertise and expectations.
    Narrative Study in the Digital Age:A Review of Digital Narrative Spaces:An Interdisciplinary Examination
    Song Jie
    2022, 2(3):  101-111. 
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    The issue of space has received attention widely in the field of narratology all along. In this age characterized by the rapid development of digital media, digital narrative space becomes narrative researchers’ focal point naturally. The book Digital Narrative Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Examination, featured with interdisciplinarity, transmediality and cross-genre, explores narrative space in different digital media in detail, which not only deepens narrative and literary spatial studies, but also inspires literary studies a lot. In brief, the book is refreshing for it broadens the dimension of studies on narrative space in theoretical propositions, research targets, research approaches and some other aspects.