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Digital Scholarship

Digital tools and technologies to facilitate faculty and students to enhance their scholarly research

Digital Humanities Projects

Digital humanities is a field that uses digital tools and methods like creating online archives, visualising data, and analyzing text to improve research and study by connecting traditional style humanities studies with the fast-growing world of digital technology. The advent of new digital technologies have opened up new avenues for the academic community to leverage scholarly output by processing, transforming, and presenting their research in digital formats. This is particularly evident in the rise of digital humanities, which utilises these advanced technologies to push the boundaries of traditional research and scholarship. 

 
Services

Depending on the development stage of the project, the Library can provide a range of services.

  • Consultation: shares relevant experiences, searches for similar projects to identify possible solutions, provides relevant suggestions, and reviews copyright requirements.
  • Digitisation Assistance: provides help with using related tools and software, as well as recording within the library studios.
  • Content Enhancement: collect relevant information, identifies suitable digital tools to present the content, and assists in preparing user instructions.
  • Project Hosting: provides the necessary web server to host the digital humanities project.

 

 
Digital Collections Portal

Digital Collections Portal is a gateway to the digital contents of valuable rare books from the Library's special collections, manuscripts, oral history interviews and digital humanities projects.

 

Projects

The Historian-in-Residence: Dr Joseph Ting

Captured related content of the Exhibition: A Journey along the Silk Road with Dr Joseph Ting (2019) and information about Dr Ting’s historical explorations along the Silk Road with the PolyU community. (January 2022)

Nine Modes Manual Online 

Developed by the Department of Chinese History and Culture, the Nine Modes Comprehensive Northern and Southern Lyric Melody Manual (九宮大成南北詞宮譜), one of the oldest and most comprehensive collections of Chinese vocal melodies in existence, is digitised. The website also provides a query engine, full-text browsing and analysis, and playback feature that enables users to listen to the melodies. The project is funded by the Hong Kong University Grants Committee (UGC).  (May 2021)

Cantopop Lyricist: Cheng Kok-kong

Captured related content of the Exhibition: Mr Cheng Kok-kong, Hong Kong’s Celebrated Lyricist (2018) and the oral history interview with him. (April 2020)
 
Contact Us

If you have any digital project ideas and would like to work with the Library, or if you have any suggestions for new resources related to digital technologies or methodologies to add to the Library’s collection, please contact the Digital Initiatives & Technology Librarian.

 
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