Monday, January 22, 2018

First Collaborative Digital Scholarship Project Launched

The first Digital Scholarship Project in collaboration with Prof Celine Lai of Faculty of Arts has been soft launched together with the Digi... thumbnail 1 summary
The first Digital Scholarship Project in collaboration with Prof Celine Lai of Faculty of Arts has been soft launched together with the Digital Scholarship Projects website in early January 2018.

The project "GIS Mapping and Archaeology of Early China" was collaborated with Prof. Celine Lai of Faculty of Arts in using GIS for mapping archaeological sites embedded with unearthed bronzes details. The data originally in excel files was collected from her doctoral study on the topic and at the initiation of Prof. Lai, dynamic maps are employed to visualise the distribution of the archaeological sites for people who are interested to the topic to further study.

To enable researchers to make use of the research data of Prof. Lai and to avoid re-inventing the wheel, the project web site also provides downloadable files in three different formats with the full list of information and references on the bronzes and archaeological sites for producing the map.  
  • PDF file of the table for full references and quotes of information
  • Files for visualising the maps and for further analysis:
    • Shapefile for use in GIS software
    • kmz file for use in Google Map / Google Earth
Please visit the project website: http://dsprojects.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/projects/gis-nao/ for these files and more information.  The project will continue as more data are provided by Prof. Lai.

Apart from this collaborative project, the DS Service Team has also released another small project: Text Data Preparation: A Practice in R using the Sheng Xuanhuai Collection in demonstrating the use of R in preparing data for Chinese text-mining and analysis.  Future Digital Scholarship Projects will all be available in this Digital Scholarship Projects website.


About Digital Scholarship Service in CUHK Library
The Digital Scholarship Service Team aims on collaborating with CUHK Faculty members, researchers and postgraduates in facilitating digital scholarship research.  CUHK community are welcome to visit our Digital Scholarship Services website or email us at dslab@lib.cuhk.edu.hk if your are interested to know more.

Conference: IP Protection and Enforcement: from Policy to Strategy to Practice

Faculty members and postgraduate students are increasingly aware of the copyright issues in teaching, learning, and research. Copyright is ... thumbnail 1 summary

Faculty members and postgraduate students are increasingly aware of the copyright issues in teaching, learning, and research. Copyright is only part of Intellectual Property that also covers other intangible property right such as trade marks, patents, designs, plant varieties and the layout design of integrated circuits. Intellectual property protection is important to Hong Kong being an international trading centre. If you want to know more about the IP policy and current practices, you are welcome to join the conference on IP Protection and Enforcement: from Policy to Strategy to Practice organized by Faculty of Law, CUHK. 

The conference has two major focuses. The first session focuses on the enforcement practices and IP initiatives by the Government of the Hong Kong SAR. The speakers are top officials from the Intellectual Property Department, Customs and Excise Department, and Hong Kong Trade Development Council. The second session focuses on the best enforcement practices in the business sector. The speakers are industry leaders and top IP lawyers. 



Date: 26 Jan 2018 (Fri)
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 1:40 p.m.
Venue: The CUHK Graduate Law Centre, 2/F Bank of America Tower, Central
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=4393000
Conference information: http://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/en/event-page/20180126.php
Conference programme: http://www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/en/event-page/file/20180126_Event_agenda.pdf

Digital Scholarship Consultation Hours in University Library Continues From 16 January, 2018

Digital Scholarship Consultation Hours service has been commenced since  October 2017 to provide instant discussion and advice to any walk... thumbnail 1 summary
Digital Scholarship Consultation Hours service has been commenced since October 2017 to provide instant discussion and advice to any walk-in users with questions on:

  • Using the facilities of the Digital Scholarship Lab
  • Software and tools in the Lab such as ArcGIS, Gephi, Omeka and Voyant Tools
  • Locating data sources
  • Applying digital scholarship research methodologies and visualising data
  • Copyright issues on the use of research data and materials.
On every alternate Tuesday, the Digital Scholarship team does have interesting in-depth discussion and demonstration with academics and postgraduates that come to the Lab. The service will continue in this second semester starting from 16 January 2018 (Tue) on every alternate Tuesday during term time:

Date: 16 & 30 January
        13 & 27 February
        13 & 27 March
        10 & 24 April

Time: 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Venue: Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library

CUHK colleagues and students are welcome to visit us for an instant discussion of your research, or email to dslab@lib.cuhk.edu.hk your question for help!
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