National Taiwan University/Research Center for Digital Humanities
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The Historian's Craft in the 21st Century (Taiwan)
An informal (but serious) conversation about technology and research methods for Humanists
Historians may work on different topics, periods, and regions, but we are all facing the overwhelmingly great amount of digitized source and on-line tools that appeared in recent years. The digital technologies, as nearly everyone can see, are changing our methods of reading, researching, as well as writing. They, too, are changing the scope and approach of the research and our perception of historical studies as a craft and as a discipline. Yet in Taiwan, the possibilities and pitfalls of doing history in this digital age have barely been put in to the agenda for discussion, if at all.
Inspired by a series of meetings discussing the changing relationship between digital technology and humanities that took place at Harvard University during the spring term of 2012 (link), the organization of this workshop aims to bring together historians who work in Taiwan, extend the discussion, and address the questions in the local context. The questions that will be covered in the discussion include: how to manage our digital sources, technologies in the classroom, databases and new methodologies, visualizations and new ways of telling history, text-mining and large-scale data analysis, and the future of historical studies.
The afternoon session consists of four workshops that will introduce different types of technologies related directly to historical studies, including TEI, GIS, visualization, and text-mining. No prior experience in digital technology is required. All are welcome to participate and, hopefully, learn.
Chen Shih-pei (Harvard University):gailchen.tw@gmail.com Tu Feng-en (Harvard University): fengen.tw@gmail.com
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Issue：TELDAP e-Newsletter (October, 2012) Publish Date：10/15 /2012 First Issue：02/15 /2007（Published on 15th every 2 months）
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