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Chinese Text Project: a dynamic digital library of premodern Chinese

Sturgeon, Donald

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This article presents technical approaches and innovations in digital library design developed during the design and implementation of the Chinese Text Project, a widely-used, large-scale full-text digital library of premodern Chinese writing. By leveraging a combination of domain-optimized Optical Character Recognition, a purpose-designed crowdsourcing system, and an Application Programming Interface (API), this project simultaneously provides a sustainable transcription system, search interface and reading environment, as well as an extensible platform for transcribing and working with premodern Chinese textual materials. By means of the API, intentionally loosely integrated text mining tools are used to extend the platform, while also being reusable independently with materials from other sources and in other languages.

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Sturgeon, D. (2021). Chinese Text Project: a dynamic digital library of premodern Chinese. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 36(S1), i101-i112. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz046

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Aug 29, 2019
Publication Date 2021-06
Deposit Date Aug 30, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
Print ISSN 2055-7671
Electronic ISSN 2055-768X
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 36
Issue S1
Pages i101-i112
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz046

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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities following peer review. The version of record: Sturgeon, Donald (2021). Chinese Text Project: a dynamic digital library of premodern Chinese. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 36(S1), i101-i112 is available online at:https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz046





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