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Calvin Yeh

IT Architect (Mar 2017-Mar 2025)

Calvin Yeh is an IT developer for the Local Gazetteers project (LoGaRT) in MPIWG's Department III.

In LoGaRT, he has improved considerably the Chinese full text search performance and is gradually refactoring the existing monolithic architecture to micro service for more reliability, scalability, and availability.

Prior to coming to MPIWG, he was a chief software developer at Xinosys, a Taiwanese IT firm, where he independently developed Patisco, a web service for middlemen. Since then, Patisco has been supporting over 700 companies spread throughout North America, Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan. During his time in the private sector, Calvin engaged in software community activities. Furthermore, he recruited new team members and led the team to develop mobile solutions.

Projekte

Common Knowledge and Its Sources in the Sinosphere, 14th to 20th Centuries

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Fenye in Local Gazetteers

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Local Gazetteers

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LoGaRT: Local Gazetteers Research Tools

MEHR

Rare Local Gazetteers Collection

MEHR

“Tu (圖)” in Local Gazetteers

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Selected Publications

Che, Qun, Nungyao Lin, Shih-Pei Chen, and Calvin Yeh (2023). “Link Visions Together: Visualizing Geographies of Late Qing and Republican China.” In Digital Humanities 2023: Book of Abstracts. Collaboration as Opportunity (DH2023), Graz, Austria, ed…

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Chen, Shih-Pei, Calvin Yeh, Sean Wang, and Qun Che (2023). “Treating a Genre as a Database: A Digital Research Methodology for Studying Chinese Local Gazetteers.” International Journal of Digital Humanities 4 (1–3): 171–193. https://doi.org/10.1007…

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Lin, Nung-yao, Shih-Pei Chen, Sean Wang, and Calvin Yeh (2020). “Displaying Spatial Epistemologies on Web GIS: Using Visual Materials from the Chinese Local Gazetteers as an Example.” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 14 (1–2):…

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Lin Nung-yao 林農堯, Chen Shih-Pei 陳詩沛, Che Qun 車群, Yeh Calvin 葉桂林, and Sean Wang (2019). “Shuwei renwen zhong de kongjian renshilun: yi Zhongguo fangzhi yu lucetu weili 數位人文中的空間認識論: 以中國方志與陸測圖為例 [Spatial Epistemologies in Digital Humanities: Using…

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Past Events

Workshop

Visualizations of the Heavens—The Database as a Research Tool

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Visual Materials in Local Gazetteers

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Digital Humanities Workshop

From Local Gazetteers Project to Asia Network: Working with Licensed Materials in Digital Humanities

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Workshop

Tu (圖) in Local Gazetteers

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Nachrichten & Presse

MPIWG auf der International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities, 1–4. Dezember 2020

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Open Access zu Ressourcen des „Local Gazetteers Research Tools“ (LoGaRT)

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Open-Access-Sammlung "Rare Local Gazetteers at Harvard-Yenching Library" veröffentlicht

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