Prof. De Weerdt will give a series of lectures entitled Data in Context at the Summer School for Quantitative History The 10th Summer School for Quantitative History will be held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, from July 6 to 16, 2024. The Summer School is jointly organized by the Department of History at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Center of Quantitative History at HKU Business School, and the School of History at Renmin University of China, in collaboration with the International Society for Quantitative History and the HK Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences.
Lecture series Data in Context
12/07/2024 Lecture 1: What is Data?
Core reading:
- Drucker, J. “Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 5.1 (2011). http://www.digitalhumanities.org//dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html
- Lavin, M. “Why Digital Humanists Should Emphasize Situated Data over Capta,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 15.2 (2021). http://digitalhumanities.org:8081/dhq/vol/15/2/000556/000556.html
Recommended:
- De Weerdt H. “Creating, Linking, and Analyzing Chinese and Korean Datasets: Digital Text Annotation in MARKUS and COMPARATIVUS,” Journal of Chinese History 4.2 (2020): 519-527. https://doi.org/10.1017/jch.2020.23
- De Weerdt, H., Ho, B, Wagner, A, Qiao, J and Chu M. “Is There a Faction in This List?” Journal of Chinese History 4.2 (2020): 347-389. http://doi.org/10.1017/jch.2020.16
15/07/2024 Lecture 2: Creating Contextual Data
Core reading:
- De Weerdt, H., Xiong, Huei-Lan and Liu, Jialong. “Rethinking Space and Power in East Asia: Digital Approaches to the History of Infrastructure,” Ming Studies 81 (2020): 76–87. https://doi.org/10.1080/0147037X.2020.1736862
- De Weerdt, H. and Molenaar, S. “Instructions for Contextual Annotation in X-MARKUS.” 2024. https://shorturl.at/sFJPX
Recommended:
- De Weerdt, H., Stojević, Iva, and Brent Ho. Infrastructure Lives. 2022- https://www.infrastructurelives.eu/
- De Weerdt, H., Ho, Hou Ieong (Brent) and Molenaar S. COMARKUS: Contextual Annotation in X-MARKUS. 2024. https://comarkus.xmarkus.org/
- De Weerdt, H., Simon, R., Lee, Sunkyu, Stojević, Iva, Meister, Meret and Xi, Wangzhi. IMMARKUS: Image Annotation in X-MARKUS. 2024. immarkus.xmarkus.org
- De Weerdt, H., Simon, R., Lee, Sunkyu and Stojević, Iva. Image Annotation in IMMARKUS Wiki. 2024. github.com/rsimon/immarkus/wiki
15/07/2024 Lecture 3: Analysing and Interpreting Data in Context
Core reading:
- Bridges, Mary. "The Infrastructural Turn in Historical Scholarship," Modern American History 6.1 (2023): 103-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/mah.2023.2
- Li, Chi. The Formation of the Chinese People. An Anthropological Inquiry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928. Chapter 3.
- Tu H-C, Hsiang, J, Hung, I-M, and Hu, C. “DocuSky, A Personal Digital Humanities Platform for Scholars,” Journal of Chinese History 4.2 (2020): 564-580. https://doi.org/10.1017/jch.2020.28
Recommended:
- Guldi, Jo. “Critical Search: A Procedure for Guided Reading in Large-Scale Textual Corpora," Journal of Cultural Analytics 3.1 (2018). https://doi.org/10.22148/16.030
- Xue, Q, Jin, X, Cheng, Y, Yang, X, Jia, X, and Zhou, Y. “The Historical Process of the Masonry City Walls Construction in China during 1st to 17th Centuries AD,” PLoS One 14.3:e0214119. March 22, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0214119
- Xue, Q, Jin, X, Cheng, Y, Yang, X. and Zhou, Y. “The Dataset of Walled Cities and Urban Extent in Late Imperial China in the 15th–19th Centuries.” Earth System Science Data 13.11 (2021). https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5071-2021