Towards a comprehensive collaborative research environment for the study of premodern Chinese culture
Overview
- Research seminar at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University. Coordinated by Christian Wittern
- Research period: April 2021 to March 2026
- This page will provide an ongoing brief record or the activities, with links and material where available.
Activities in AY 2021
2021-04-23 General introduction
2021-05-14 A closer look at TLS; its history in comparative perspective, its aspirations and its implementation in Filemaker
Presenter: Christoph Harbsmeier
- Recording of the presentation (170mb)
- Slides
- Thesaurus linguae Latinae (TLL)
- Historical thesaurus of the Oxford English dictionary
- online : https://ht.ac.uk/
- Internet Archive digital copy: Historical thesaurus of the Oxford English dictionary
- Links:
2021-05-28 How to Do Things with Semantic Ontologies: The Conceptual Taxonomy of the TLS
Presenter: Christian Schwermann
2021-06-11 Overview of CHISE: its Chinese Character ontology and some applications
Presenter: Tomohiko Morioka
- Slides
- Links:
- CHISE : CHaracter Information Service Environment
- CHISE IDS Find (find characters by component)
- SPARQL endpoint
- HNG (Based on “Ishizuka Register of Chinese Character Standards of Writing” (石塚漢字字体資料))
- Multi-database Search System for Historical Chinese Characters
2021-06-25 Searching for Knowledge: Discovery of Term Clusters Across Primary Sources with DocuSky
Presenter: Michael Stanley-Baker
2021-07-09 A closer look at hxwd.org and how the TLS is implemented there
Presenter: Christian Wittern
2021-09-24 TLS Practice: Reading 人物誌
https://hxwd.org/textview.html?location=CH2a1468&first=true
Reading lead by Christoph Harbsmeier
2021-10-08 TLS Update on technical issues, practice: Reading 人物誌
Christian Wittern and Christoph Harbsmeier
2021-10-22 TLS Practice: Reading 人物誌
Reading lead by Christoph Harbsmeier
2021-11-12 TLS Practice: Reading 人物誌
Reading lead by Christoph Harbsmeier
2021-11-26 How to locate exegetical hot spots? A wish list arising out of a laboratory report involving commentaries on “The Lord that Resides in the Clouds” (雲中君) from the anthology Songs of Chu (楚辭)
Presenter: Michael Schimmelpfennig
2021-12-10 New developments in the TLS database
Presenter: Christian Wittern
2022-01-14 Some thoughts on medium-term desiderata for the TLS, focusing on text search functionality
Presenter: Joerg Plassen
2022-01-28 Next steps for the TLS Website
Presenter: Christian Wittern
Activities in AY 2022
2022-04-22 The Bibliotheca Polyglotta and the ideas on which it is built
Presenter: Jens Braarvig
2022-05-13 Current state and future plans for the TLS research platform
Presenter: Christian Wittern
- Slides
- Links
- TEI Publisher
- KRX HXWD (with new text format, this is not the production site!)
- TLS test (first steps with tei publisher)
2022-05-27 Universal Dependencies for Classical Chinese
Presenter: Koichi Yasuoka
2022-06-10 Analytical Framework for the TLS (1)
Presenter: Christoph Harbsmeier
2022-06-24 (CANCELLED)
2022-07-08 The Logic, Syntax and Semantics of Numerals in pre-Buddhist Chinese
Presenter: Christoph Harbsmeier
2022-10-14 A review of Wikidata in DH projects and some cases in the study of premodern Chinese culture
Presenter: Fudie Zhao
2022-10-28 Character taxonomies, text editing and other recent developments in the TLS collaborative research environment
Presenter: Christian Wittern
2022-11-25 The natural language of mathematics and its technical challenges in the TLS
Presenter: Andrea Bréard
2022-12-09 Representation of mathematical texts in TLS and other topics
2023-01-13 (CANCELLED)
2023-01-27 Lexeme Relations and Lexeme Constructions in the Filemaker version of the TLS
Presenter: David Sehnal
Activities in AY 2023
2023-04-28 Review and outlook of the collaborative platform
Presenter: Christian Wittern
2023-05-12 A classified catalog and its applications in the TLS
Presenter: Christian Wittern
2023-05-26 Signup, Text-critical editing and Bibliography in the TLS
Presenter: Christian Wittern
2023-06-09 What Can and Cannot Be Said: Attempting to Use the TLS to Measure ‘Correctness’
Presenter: Valerie Kiel and Anja Schmidt
2023-06-23 Further Examples
Presenter: Valerie Kiel and Anja Schmidt
2023-07-07 Roadmap for further development
Presenter: Christian Wittern
2023-10-13 Recent updates to the TLS server
Presenter: Christian Wittern
- Links
- 孔子家語 (Example of adding missing facsimile)
- Experimental server with large text database: https://chw.hxwd.org
- 淮南子 on HXWD
2023-10-27 Suggestions for the User Interface
Presenter: Harry Diakoff
2023-11-24 Translations over time
Presenter: Christoph Harbsmeier
2023-12-08 Exploring the usage of 一 yi using language models
Presenter: Florian Kessler
2024-01-12 Beyond search terms: Some further musings on computer-assisted intertextuality research and implementable desiderata for search functions in the TLS
Presenter: Joerg Plassen
2024-01-24 to 2024-01-26 Conceptualizing ‘One’ (一)
Organized by sinaps group in Erlangen, led by Andrea Bréard
Activities in AY 2024
2024-04-26 CANCELLED
2024-05-10 Review of activities in AY 2023 and planning for AY 2024
Presenter: Christian Wittern
- 2024-04-18/19: International Conference on Retrospect and Prospect of Digitalization of Buddhist Resources
- Roadmap of 2023-07-07
- Annotated medical texts (by Michael Stanley-Baker and his team)
- Slides
2024-06-14 Near term and long term changes to the TLS: benefits and costs
Presenter: Harry Diakoff
2024-06-28 A first proposal for a possible prototype of a TLS-Satellite: Affordances, data format and technical realization
Presenter: Christian Wittern
2024-07-12
Presenter: David Sehnal
2024-10-11 Taking stock and setting priorities for the next phase of development
Presenter: Christian Wittern
- Topics
- New server! Much faster!
- Possibilities for adding new texts:
- SBCK (ca. 380 new texts)
- CBETA (subset Taisho, Zokuzokyo, …)
- Novels (KR4k, 327 new texts)
- ??
- Possibilities for adding new texts:
- Proposed new frontend of website:
- minimal Homepage
- maximal Homepage
- integration has hit a road block
- TLS-Satellite: discontinued
- other ideas for TLS classroom use?
- cf Tls in the Classroom
- can we make the process of annotating easier to learn?
- other ideas for TLS classroom use?
- Code refactoring
- This is a continuing effort, but some general guidance is needed:
- Can we make editing e.g concept definitions easier by moving to a different format?
- Improving the interface for certain actions / types of data
- This is a continuing effort, but some general guidance is needed:
- New server! Much faster!
2024-10-25 New developments: Documentation, Full text search and Attributions
Presenter: Christian Wittern
- Topics:
2024-11-08 Publication, distributed text search and citations
Presenter: Christian Wittern
- Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies
- Of interest: Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper
2024-11-22 Updated Citations display, Resources for ’special interests’ and Publication
Presenter: Christian Wittern
2024-12-13 Publication, treatment of taxonomies, links to external resources, and more
Presenter: Christian Wittern
- Of interest: The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age (and a talk on this topic )
2025-01-10
Presenter: TBD
2025-01-24
Presenter: TBD
References
- 漢籍リポジトリの基礎的研究 – Fundamental research of the Kanseki Repository
TLS 漢學文典
- https://hxwd.org
- TLS Uni Heidelberg (this link is dead at the moment)
- Syntactic categories
- TLS Application Code (GitHub)