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Digital Projects of Chinese Historical Local Private Documents: Database Development and Exploring of Text Mining

Zhao, Siyuan; Tang, Meng; Sun, Yi

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/109281

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Title
Digital Projects of Chinese Historical Local Private Documents: Database Development and Exploring of Text Mining
Author(s)
  • Zhao, Siyuan
  • Tang, Meng
  • Sun, Yi
Issue Date
2020
Keyword(s)
  • text mining
  • database project
  • metadata
Geographic Coverage
China
Abstract
This article examines methods to develop database and text mining tools of local Chinese private documents at Shanghai Jiao Tong University under collaboration between historians and librarians and intends to contribute to discussions of digital humanities. Local private documents are crucial sources for studying the social and economic history of early modern China. In the database project, metadata creation and database development are under the direction of historical philology, and the metadata elements—type, guihu, administrative units—are defined by historical philology. The database structure successfully copes with the heterogeneous sources of local private documents. Text mining tools developed by librarians allow historians to explore social networks, trade types, and contract formats in socioeconomic history.
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/2142/109281
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2020.0022
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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