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Shih-Pei Chen is a digital humanities specialist with a focus on digital historical research and Digital Sinology. She is a computer scientist by training and has been working with historians to develop digital research applications and methodologies for more than fifteen years. She is currently Senior Research Scholar and IT Researcher at the Institute, and is leading projects that range from research-oriented digital tool development (Local Gazetteers Research Tools; LoGaRT), geospatial and visual analysis (CHMap), to technical research infrastructure development (RISE & SHINE) and new forms of publishing historical datasets (Digital Concordances). She also serves on various editorial, advisory, and reviewing boards for journals, conferences, research projects, and funding agencies in the field of Digital Humanities.
Projects
Local Gazetteers
LoGaRT: Local Gazetteers Research Tools
Mapping Drugs across Epistemic and Geographic Domains in Early Medieval China
Mapping Drugs in Early Medieval China
Rare Local Gazetteers 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
Lycas, Alexis, Masato Hasegawa, and Chen Shih-Pei 陳詩沛, eds. (2022). The Production of Geographical Knowledge in Medieval China. Special issue, East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine. 54 (2). Leiden: Brill. https://brill.com/view/journals/east…
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Lycas, Alexis, Masato Hasegawa, and Chen Shih-Pei 陳詩沛 (2022). “The Production of Geographical Knowledge in Medieval China.” East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 54 (2): 161–165. https://doi.org/10.1163/26669323-20220016.
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Chen, Shih-Pei, Calvin Yeh, Sean Wang, and Qun Che (2022). “Treating a Genre as a Database: A Digital Research Methodology for Studying Chinese Local Gazetteers.” International Journal of Digital Humanities, October. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42803…
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Chen, Shih-Pei, Calvin Yeh, Sean Wang, and Qun Che, eds. (2022). Treating a Genre as a Database: A Digital Research Methodology for Studying Chinese Local Gazetteers. Special issue, International Journal of Digital Humanities. Springer. https://doi…
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Media
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