SPECIAL TOPIC: From Project to Platform——What Else Can Libraries Do for Digital Humanities?
Shen Lili, Zhang Hongling, Han Chunlei, Liu Wei
[Purpose/significance] This paper analyzes 51 digital humanities projects in Chinese context which is collected at the 2020 digital humanities conference held by Shanghai Library. This paper summarizes the general situation of digital humanities projects on Chinese cultural themes in the Chinese context, and provides reference for the future development of digital humanities in China.[Method/process] The 51 projects were analyzed by network survey and data analysis, and classified according to the different research objects and contents. Meanwhile, valuable features were obtained by analyzing and discussing the research methods, implementation conditions and practical significance of the project results. This paper discussed four dimensions of "Digital Humanities and humanities" "Application of technical means and methods" "infrastructure construction" and "extended service and problem solving".[Result/conclusion] The overview of 51 projects show five characteristics:Digital Humanities is flourished in the fields of history and literature, and has deep combination of machine learning. The construction of digital resources is still the top priority. The era of Comprehensive Digital Humanities platform has come, and interdisciplinary, inter institutional and international cooperative projects have also begun to appear. In view of the shortcomings in the construction and development of Chinese Digital Humanities projects, this paper also puts forward the main suggestions to promote inter agency cooperation and interdisciplinary integration, to strengthen the cultivation of big data cross thinking and humanistic quality, and continue to improve the subject service ability and basic resources construction.