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Shih-Pei Chen received her PhD from National Taiwan University as a computer scientist with a focus on digital humanities. Her dissertation, “Information Technology for Historical Document Analysis”, explores ways of analyzing digital full texts of historical documents using information technologies. After her PhD, Shih-Pei conducted her postdoctoral research at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences of Harvard University and managed the China Biographical Database (CBDB), a digital database that collects biographical data for figures of historical China. Shih-Pei joined MPIWG in January 2014 as the digital content curator at MPIWG where she works with historians in order to develop digital tools that can open up new methodologies of conducting historical research in the digital age.
Projects
Infrastructural Research Initiatives, Sources in Sciences' Histories (IRISSH)
Local Gazetteers
LoGaRT: Local Gazetteers Research Tools
Mapping Drugs across Epistemic and Geographic Domains in Early Medieval China
Rare Local Gazetteers at Harvard-Yenching Library: An Open Access Collection
RISE and SHINE: Research Infrastructure for the Study of Eurasia
Technical Methods, Collaborators and Process
The WebGIS Platform of Historical Maps of China
Selected Publications
Peng, W., Cheng, H., & Chen, S.-P. (2018). From text to data: extracting posting data from Chinese local gazetteers. 從全文到表格：地方志職官志中職官資料之半自動擷取. Cong quan wen dao biao ge: di fang zhi zhi guan zhi zhong zi liao zhi ban zi dong xie qu. 數位典藏與數位人文…
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Chen, S.-P., Hong, Z., Schäfer, D., Siebert, M., & Urzúa, J. (2016). Compiling a database on historical China from local records: the Local Gazetteers Project at MPIWG. In M. Eder, & J. Rybicki (Eds.), Digital Humanities 2016: conference…
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Institute Events
Presentations, Talks, & Teaching Activities
The 6th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities 2015, Taipei, Taiwan
Conference "Scales of Knowledge: Zooming in and out," Heidelberg, Germany
Digital Humanities Conference 2015, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Workshop, Chinese Local Gazetteers (地方志), MPIWG, Berlin, Germany
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference (AAS 2015), Chicago, USA
Crossover & Transformation: The 5th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities 2014, Taipei, Taiwan
Annual Meeting for the History of Science Society, (HSS), Chicago, USA
International Workshop on Digital Sinology and Taiwan Studies, Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Conference on Quantitative Approaches in the Humanities, Hanover, Germany
Digital Humanities Conference 2014, Lausanne, Switzerland