Author: Nora Van den Bosch
At the invitation of Eline Ceulemans, I gave an online lecture to bachelor students of history at the University of Antwerp on November 21, 2023. The presentation introduced the usage of data and digital...
This article is an interlude between the usual posts, introducing a python-based toolkit called ChineseCalendarTools (available on gitlab, together with documentation and examples of usage). [1] The toolkit provides code for parsing and converting...
In this blogpost, we want to share our experience about the application of a digital tool during one of our projects, namely the diary written by the local elite Zhang Gang. Context One of...
In the previous blog post, we described how we retrieved Chinese biographies by the use of a machine learning-classifier. Since then, we updated the collection with English biographies that are linked to the Chinese...
In the last few months we tried to build a corpus based on the biographies of the Chinese Wikipedia. The reason for having such a corpus is that we can use it for future...