Digital Classicist London 2017: 2. Donald Sturgeon
Channel: Digital Classicist London Seminars
Date: 2017-06-09

Donald Sturgeon (Harvard University)
Crowdsourcing a digital library of pre-modern Chinese

Abstract and details: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2017-02ds.html

Full programme: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2017.html

Traditional digital libraries, including those in the field of pre-modern Chinese, have typically followed top-down, centralized, and static models of content creation and curation. This is a natural and well-grounded strategy for database design and implementation, with strong roots in traditional academic publishing models, and offering clear technical advantages over alternative approaches. This strategy, however, is unable to adequately meet the challenges of increasingly large-scale digitization and the resulting rapid growth in available corpus size.