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The Historian's Craft in the 21st Century (Taiwan)
 An informal (but serious) conversation about technology and research methods for Humanists


         Historians may work on different topics, periods, and regions, but we are all facing the overwhelmingly huge amount of digitized sources and on-line tools that appeared in recent years. The digital technologies, as nearly everyone can see, are changing our methods of reading, researching, as well as writing. They, too, are changing the scope and the approach of research and our perception of historical studies as a craft and as a discipline. Yet in Taiwan, the possibilities and pitfalls of doing history in this digital age have rarely been put in to the agenda for discussion, if at all.

        Inspired by a series of meetings discussing the changing relationship between digital technology and humanities that took place at Harvard University during the spring term of 2012 (link), the organization of this workshop aims to bring together historians who work in Taiwan, extend the discussion, and address the questions in the local context. The questions that will be covered include: how to manage our digital sources, technologies in the classroom, databases and new methodologies, visualizations and new ways of telling history, text-mining and large-scale data analysis, and the future of historical studies.

        The afternoon session consists of four workshops that will introduce different types of technologies related directly to historical studies, including TEI, GIS, visualization, and text-mining. No prior experience in digital technology is required. All are welcome to participate and, hopefully, learn.

Workshop website: http://thc21tw.blogspot.com/

n      Date: November 28, 2012
n      Venue: Tsai Lecture Hall, College of Law, National Taiwan University
n       Schedule
9:30-11:30
THC21 Taiwan
13:30-15:00
Session 1-1
TEI : Text Encoding Initiative
Speaker: Chu Ping-tzu (Tsinghua University)               
Session 2-1
Visualization
Speaker: Brent Ho (National Taiwan University)
15:30-17:30
Session 1-2
Text Parsing and Extraction -- Using Regular Expressions
Speaker: Chen Shi-pei (Harvard University) 
Session 2-2
GIS: Geographical Information System
Speaker: Lin Nung-yao (National Taiwan University)

n        Register now!  http://tinyurl.com/8k8xul2
n        Contacts
Chen Shih-pei (Harvard University): gailchen.tw@gmail.com
Tu Feng-en (Harvard University): fengen.tw@gmail.com

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