Digital Scholarship Projects, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library

Welcome to CUHK Library Digital Scholarship Projects Site

The CUHK Library is eager to collaborate with CUHK Faculty members and researchers to support them in conducting digital scholarship research through a suite of services, cutting-edge space, research tools, user training, consultation, and technological support. We also embrace open access to encourage more similar digital scholarship research and avoid reinventing the wheel. This online platform is especially created to deliver these projects, open up the research data if any, and to demonstrate the application of digital tools in research. Any faculty members or researchers interested in partnership are welcome to contact us.

Our Projects

GIS Mapping and Archaeology of Early China (Ms. Kitty Siu & Prof. Celine Lai)

Archive of the 20th Century Cantonese Chanting in Hong Kong (Prof. Siu Chun-ho and Ms. Kitty Siu)

Text Analysis and Visualisation of The Observatory Review from Hong Kong Early Tabloid Newspaper (Mr. Vincent Lum and Mr. Calvin Yeung)

Heading Analysis with Machine Learning on The Hongkong News (Mr. Michael Yip & Mr. Vincent Lum)

Finding the Hidden Gems in CUHK Library’s Audio Collection: Machine Learning as a Tool for Audio Analysis (Mr. Tyler Wan)

Image Dataset Analysis of “Amusement News” from Hong Kong Early Tabloid Newspaper through Computer Vision and Machine Learning algorithms (Mr. Vincent Lum and Mr. Calvin Yeung)

Our Events

2021 Chinese Classic Text OCR Challenge

Data Analytics Practice Opportunity 2021/22

Data Analytics Practice Opportunity 2022/23

Data Analytics Practice Opportunity 2023/24

Data Analytics Practice Opportunity 2024/25

Projects by Other CUHK Members

Apart from the Library’s own and collaborative projects, CUHK members have been doing research with digital scholarship elements such as data visualisation, geo-spatial and network display, analysis, etc. Here are a few examples and you are welcome to showcase your related projects:

AI in China: Sketchy Prehistories (Prof. Xuenan Cao)

The Lannang Archives (Prof. Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales)

Immigration Detention in Hong Kong: Fostering transparency through data gathering and visualisation (Prof. Surabhi Chopra)

Mapping Public Health (Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases)

Cantonese 4-word Idiomatic Expressions Excerpts and Audio Recording Database (Language Acquisition Laboratory)

Open-access dataset. “Translation in New Tide Journal (1919–1922) and the Canonization of May Fourth in the early Republican Periodical Press” (Prof. Ye Jia)

Open-access dataset. “A History from Below: Translators in the Publication Network of Four Magazines of China Book Company, 1913–1923” (Prof. Ye Jia)

HIST4702 Digital History Project Websites (Recent 2 years)

SARS in Asia (HIST4702 Digital History Project (2022-23))

Collaboration

The Library has been working with different Faculties, Departments, Research Centres as well as a few non-CUHK organisations in developing digital initiatives, including the collections in our CUHK Digital Repository and Digital Scholarship projects