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Building a Memory Map to Reconstruct an Urban Memory: The Case of the Beijing City Gates

Niu, Li; Liu, Lichao; Gao, Chenxiang; Jia, Xiaoshuang

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Title
Building a Memory Map to Reconstruct an Urban Memory: The Case of the Beijing City Gates
Author(s)
  • Niu, Li
  • Liu, Lichao
  • Gao, Chenxiang
  • Jia, Xiaoshuang
Issue Date
2020
Keyword(s)
  • memory research
  • urban memory
  • knowledge map
Geographic Coverage
China
Abstract
Memory research has become a hot topic in the field of digital humanities (DH). DH methods and tools can help to realize the intellectualization and visualization of urban memory. This paper uses the knowledge map (KM) approach to organize, process, and mine archives and documentation data related to urban memory in order to build a map for the reorganization and reconstruction of urban memory. Thus, it proposes a three-tiered “concept-instance-resource” conceptual model. Furthermore, it takes the Beijing city gates as a case to test the effectiveness of this conceptual model. We believe this study provides a good exploration of the use of DH methods and tools in memory practice.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 69 (1). Summer 2020
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/109277
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2020.0026
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Copyright 2020 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 69 (1) Summer 2020: Digital Humanities and Libraries in China PRIMARY
Library Trends 69 (1) Summer 2020: Digital Humanities and Libraries in China. Edited by Lian Ruan and Xingye Du