A Chinse classic text markup platform developed by Brent Hou Ieong Ho, who received his Ph.D. from National Taiwan University, under the direction of Professor Jieh Hsiang, the director of Research Center of Digital Humanities in National Taiwan University. Originally designed to automate the markup of different kinds of named entities in Chinse history (personal names, place names, temporal references, and bureaucratic offices), MARKUS now also allows manual, user-supplied keyword tagging, and automatic keyword generation based on keyword clipper. It is currently part of “Communication & Empire: Chinese Empire in Comparative Perspective” funded by European Research Council.
Published in Chapter:
A Bibliographic Analysis of Scholarly Publication in the Emerging Field of Digital Humanities in Taiwan
Kuang-hua Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) and Muh-Chyun Tang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7195-7.ch007
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the development of digital humanities (DH) in Taiwan. A bibliographic methodology was adopted where the scholarly publications in DH were collected and their bibliographic information retrieved and analyzed. Both co-authorship and article similarity networks were generated so social network analysis can be used to characterize the development of the field. The preliminary results show that in the earlier stage of DH in Taiwan more emphasis has been put on the construction and modeling of the cultural heritage databases; the later period has witnessed a wide variety of efforts to apply computational means within different branches in humanities, most noticeably history, Buddhists, and literary studies. The Computer Science, Library and Information Science, Geography, and History are the major driving forces for DH in Taiwan. The strong presence of Buddhists study is unique because of the strong influence of Buddhism on the Taiwanese.