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Thursday, November 29, 2018

香港中文大學藏盛宣懷檔案解密 Unlocking the Sheng Xuanhuai Archive @ CUHK

盛宣懷(1844-1916)，一位睿智及極具魄力的商人、政治家、銀行家、外交家、慈善家、教育家，是中國晚清至民國早期工業化及現代化的推動者。 香港中文大學文物館藏盛宣懷檔案乃於1985年獲已故利榮森博士及程伯奮先生的慷慨支持下購入。這批超過13,000封信件的檔案接近四百萬... thumbnail 1 summary
    • 盛宣懷(1844-1916)，一位睿智及極具魄力的商人、政治家、銀行家、外交家、慈善家、教育家，是中國晚清至民國早期工業化及現代化的推動者。
    香港中文大學文物館藏盛宣懷檔案乃於1985年獲已故利榮森博士及程伯奮先生的慷慨支持下購入。這批超過13,000封信件的檔案接近四百萬字， 分為77卷，包括盛宣懷與家人及同僚的書信往來。這些檔案揭示了中國自晚清至民國初期的財政、政治、家庭和社會狀況，是了解這個動盪時期至為重要的檔案。
    由文物館及圖書館合辦的座談會中，上海專家團隊會分享自2014年以來處理盛檔釋文工作的經驗及的當中的研究價值。圖書館數碼服務組則會分享檔案的數碼化處理過程及嘗試以新技術揭示及檢索檔案內容，為數字人文提供基礎。
    日期: 2018年12月7日(星期五)
    時間: 2:30 ‒ 5:30 p.m.
    地點: 中文大學圖書館地下 數碼學術研究室
    語言: 中文
    報名: https://goo.gl/forms/jA4PrlOz5VYefjJl1
    講者:
    馮金牛 (項目主編)
    高洪興 (檔案處理及釋文團隊)
    廖頴康 (圖書館數碼服務主任)
    程序:
    歡迎辭
    姚進莊教授 (文物館館長)
    李露絲女士 (圖書館館長)
    馮金牛先生演講香港中文大學藏《盛宣懷檔案》的研究價值
    高洪興先生演講盛宣懷與賑災
    廖頴康生生演講揭示香港中文大學藏《盛宣懷檔案》—圖書館的參與
    問答環節(由卜永堅教授主持)
    歷史系副教授
    梁元生教授總結
    歷史學講座教授、
    前中國文化研究所所長

    Sheng Xuanhuai (1844-1916), a powerful and resourceful merchant, politician, banker, diplomat, philanthropist, and educator, was the driving force of China’s industrialization and modernization during the late Qing to early Republican period.
    The Sheng Xuanhuai Archive at the Chinese University of Hong Kong was acquired by the Art Museum in 1985, under the auspice of the late Dr. J.S. LEE and Mr. CHENG Chi. It comprises 77 volumes with almost 4 million characters in over 13,000 correspondences among Sheng Xuanhuai, his family members, and colleagues. The archive is key to understanding that period of seismic changes, and it will revolutionize the study of late Qing and early Republican China.
    Upon the completion of this important phase of digitisation and transcription, the Art Museum and the Library jointly organised this event to mark the occasion. The Shanghai team will share their experience on the transcription work of the archive and the potential research value. The Library’s Digital Services team will talk on the hosting of this archive on the Digital Repository to enhance discoveries, research and experimenting digital humanities.
    Date: 7 Dec 2018 (Fri)
    Time: 2:30-5:30 p.m.
    Venue: Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library
    Medium: Chinese
    Registration: https://goo.gl/forms/jA4PrlOz5VYefjJl1
    Speaker:
    Mr. FENG Jinniu (Chief Editor of the project)
    Mr. GAO Hongxing (Member of the Shanghai expert team)
    Mr. Jeff LIU (Digital Services Librarian)
    Program:
    Opening Remark by:
    Prof. Josh YIU (Director of Art Museum) and Ms. Louise JONES (University Librarian)
    Mr. FENG Jinniu on "Research Value of the Sheng XuanHuai Archive @ CUHK"
    Mr. GAO Hongxing on "Sheng XuanHuai and Disaster Relief"
    Mr. Jeff LIU on "Unveiling the Sheng XuanHuai Archive @ CUHK Library’s participation"
    Q & A Session moderated by Prof. PUK Wing Kin
    Associate Professor, Department of History
    Closing Remark by:
    Prof. LEUNG Yuen Sang
    Professor of History Department;
    Former Director of Institute of Chinese Studies



    Friday, November 16, 2018

    《中國現代戲劇館藏》分享及發布會 Sharing Session and Launch of Modern Chinese Drama Collection

    香港中文大學圖書館推出全文圖像《中國現代戲劇館藏》( http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/collection/drama )，此批戲劇書籍原購於六十年代中期，是研究現代中國戲劇的寶庫。已掃描並完成上載的書籍共1700餘冊，主要包括三十及四十... thumbnail 1 summary
    • 香港中文大學圖書館推出全文圖像《中國現代戲劇館藏》(http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/collection/drama)，此批戲劇書籍原購於六十年代中期，是研究現代中國戲劇的寶庫。已掃描並完成上載的書籍共1700餘冊，主要包括三十及四十年代著作，絕版戲劇書、初版和油印的劇本和戲劇理論、技術書等。在新的《中國現代戲劇館藏》平臺還嵌入中國現代劇本提要及評論。

    《中國現代戲劇館藏》分享及發布會將由崔文東教授講述當年聯合書院姚克教授從戲劇書籍收藏家胡振先生購入該批書籍的故事，并由張秉權博士介紹其早年與何杏楓教授合撰之《「中國現代戲劇特藏」抗戰前中國現代劇本提要及評論》。此外，他們亦會講述至五十多年後的今天將部份精選館藏掃瞄及上載至「香港中文大學數碼典藏」的建庫過程。兩位講者亦會分享此數碼館藏對相關研究的幫助。

    活動登記: https://goo.gl/forms/xhIhEbyiRJn78Yar2



    Thursday, March 29, 2018

    Launch of “The Cultural Revolution in Images: Caricature-Posters from Guangzhou 1966-1977”

    The Library is proud to partner with  Dr. Laura Pozzi , Lecturer of the   Centre for China Studies , to launch this new digital colle... thumbnail 1 summary

    • The Library is proud to partner with Dr. Laura Pozzi, Lecturer of the Centre for China Studies, to launch this new digital collection, “The Cultural Revolution in Images: Caricature-Posters from Guangzhou 1966-1977”. Through high-definition digitization, the collection showcasing 216 original posters from the Library on the Cultural Revolution is now available online to the academic community throughout the world. With the curation effort of Dr. Pozzi, all the posters were meticulously classified and the collection is organized into two sections: the first entitled “Caricature Posters of the Cultural Revolution in Guangzhou” showcases posters dated between 1966 and 1967; the second section entitled “The End of the Gang of Four” presents posters dated between 1976 and 1977. The posters are then divided according to their content, mostly the identity of the politician they targeted. All the information about each image (author and date of production) together with a translation of texts and slogans contained in the posters are accessible by either clicking the individual poster or mouse over an individual poster in each section. 
    According to Dr. Pozzi, most of the pieces showcased in this collection are satirical caricatures against party leaders drawn in Guangzhou during the Cultural Revolution. This satirical content sets them apart from most known images of the Cultural Revolution, which are mainly propagandistic. It is hoped that this unique and valuable collection will be helpful to scholars in their research and teaching.
    The digital collection can be accessed at: http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/collection/crposter
    For enquiries, please contact us at digitization@lib.cuhk.edu.hk
    香港中文大學圖書館很榮幸與中國研究中心講師 Laura Pozzi博士合作推出新的圖書館數碼館藏：”漫畫中的文化大革命：廣州的諷刺宣傳畫 1966-1977”。216幅文化大革命期間的政治諷刺宣傳畫全部由圖書館收藏，透過高清掃瞄將此數碼館藏呈現給全世界。館藏中所有海報均由Pozzi博士精心分類為兩部分：第一部分“文革期間的廣州諷刺宣傳畫”收錄了1966至1967年的宣傳畫；第二部分“粉碎四人幫”則收錄1967至1977年的作品。除了以年份為主要區分，宣傳畫亦依照內容，尤其是作品中政治人物再作分類。讀者可將鼠標移至宣傳畫海報及點擊海報以了解更多相關資料，當中包括作者及創作年份及宣傳畫中所使用中文文本及口號的英譯版本。
    根據Pozzi博士介紹，此數碼館藏的大部分作品都是文革期間廣州民眾針對各黨派領袖所繪畫的諷刺漫畫。當中內容與黨派領袖在文化大革命中所宣傳的形像大相徑庭。本館衷心希望此獨特而有價值的藏品有助於學者進行研究及教學。
    如有查詢，可電郵至 digitization@lib.cuhk.edu.hk 與我們聯絡。



    Wednesday, December 27, 2017

    Writing and Local Identity: Literary Women of the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong in the 18th and 19th Centuries

    The Library is pleased to organise the following public talk by Prof. Grace S. Fong of McGill University. All are welcome to join! Writin... thumbnail 1 summary
    • The Library is pleased to organise the following public talk by Prof. Grace S. Fong of McGill University. All are welcome to join!

    Writing and Local Identity: Literary Women of the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong in the 18th and 19th Centuries

    Speaker
    Prof. Grace Fong
    Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University
    Visiting Professor, School of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong
    Abstract of the talk
    On the southern margins of the Qing empire, Guangdong has been seen as an evolving site of regional culture, education, and commerce, particularly in the Pearl River Delta counties surrounding the provincial capital Guangzhou in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While anthropologists have uncovered a working-class women’s culture in this region, educated women from the counties of Panyu, Shunde, Xinhui, and Zhongshan were a significant but as yet understudied part of the elite culture.
    Using data on Guangdong women in the Ming Qing Women’s Writings database and digital archive (http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing/) as primary sources for comparison, this paper aims to explore the relationship of these women’s writing to the construction of regional culture and identity before the Western powers had a significant impact through trade and missionary efforts beyond the Canton trading zone. To what extent were literary women part of a regional culture in Guangdong in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Using both biographical and textual data and examining the paratexts, poetic themes and topics, and regional and social networks contained in fifteen individual works by Qing women writers from Guangdong, I will examine how a regional or local culture might have been constructed in these textual productions, and to ask how the components of this regional women’s culture – the hopes and desires, social and cultural activities, reflections and ambitions of these women in the Pearl River Delta show differences from or similarities to their contemporaries, the well-known elite educated women in the cultured Yangzi River Delta. 
    Date: 10 Jan, 2018 (Wed)
    Time: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
    Venue: Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library

    Friday, June 2, 2017

    The work behind a video digital collection in CUHK Digital Repository - A Grain of Sand: Poems from Hong Kong

    What do you expect from a video digital collection? Fast streaming? High-definition pictures? Clear voices? Whenever our Digital Servi... thumbnail 1 summary
    • What do you expect from a video digital collection? Fast streaming? High-definition pictures? Clear voices? Whenever our Digital Services Team has the opportunity to handle a digital collection with audio and video items, we will investigate various ways to exploit the full potential of the collection. For instance, in “Chinese Women and Hong Kong Christianity: An Oral History Archive” which has audio and video clippings, images, and other formats of materials, they are all put together as a collection so that users can easily trace through all materials relating to the oral history of the interviewee like the following.  Another example is “United College General Education Senior Seminar Papers Database”.  Again, all materials relating to the paper are grouped together as a collection.



    In a recently launched video digital collection, namely, “A Grain of Sand: Poems from Hong Kong”, we experimented a few feature available in our Repository system (Islandora) to let users have a new experience in listening to English poems.
     
    This video digital collection is a collaboration project between the Library and the Department of English. It consists of 33 video recordings of 4 poets that have connections with The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in different capacities: Louise Ho , Andrew Parkin, Eddie Tay and Kit Fan. They recited their own poems about Hong Kong, and CUHK in particular, in a spectacular background of some landmarks in Hong Kong and CUHK campus.
     
    In order to let users visualize the poems not only in beautiful pictures but also in words, we used a new Islandora module called Oral Histories Solution Pack to display the subtitles of the poem in the video and in the time-coded transcript viewer underneath the video. This solution pack is developed by University of Toronto Scarborough Library, and the program codes are shared freely in Github with the Islandora community so that Islandorians including CUHK Library are able to share and contribute what we have enhanced back to the community.  This is the main benefit of using an open source software.  For more details of the Oral Histories Solution Pack, please refer to:  


     
    To prepare for display of subtitles, the team has evaluated different subtitles editing tools including those available in the GitHub site mentioned above.  Finally, an open source editor for video subtitles called Subtitle Edit (http://www.nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit/) was adopted as it is relatively easy to use and suitable for our project size and requirement.
     
    The digital texts are provided by the English Department.  We made use of the Subtitle Edit to provide time code for all 33 video clips.  The following is screenshot of the application. 

    The next step is to use the application to export the subtitles into WebVTT XML files that are suitable for the Solution Pack’s requirement.  Subtitle Edit is able to export the timecoded subtitles into various formats.
     
    It also offers functions like “Templating Export” as in Open Refine (http://openrefine.org/) that we also make use of when preparing MODS file.


    With these handy tools and the effort of the whole team, we are able to deliver the project within just a few weeks. We are now proud to present this new collection to the world so that users can appreciate the value of English poems. 
    We value any collaboration with Faculty.  Our services can be found here. Please let us know if there are any opportunity to create some interesting digital collections within our CUHK community.

    Friday, March 17, 2017

    1st anniversary of the CUHK Digital Repository 😀🎂🎈

    Today is the 1st anniversary of the CUHK Digital Repository ( http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk ). Over the past year, we have ingested over... thumbnail 1 summary
    • Today is the 1st anniversary of the CUHK Digital Repository (http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk). Over the past year, we have ingested over 1 million objects into the system. The objects include those items migrated from our legacy digital collections and also new items for our newly built digital collections.
    Meanwhile, in this month, the repository platform also recorded more than 1 million access to our objects.

    We will highlight some of our collections and their items in the next blog posts.

    Sunday, August 28, 2016

    Migration of CUHK Electronic Theses & Dissertations Collection into CUHK Digital Repository

    We are delighted to announce that CUHK Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) Collection is now accessible at the newly launched ... thumbnail 1 summary
    • We are delighted to announce that CUHK Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETD) Collection is now accessible at the newly launched CUHK Digital Repository.

    On this new platform, about 2,500 volumes of doctoral dissertations that were previously available in microfiches were added to make the Collection a complete set of theses and dissertations produced by our research postgraduate community. In addition, users are able to browse and search in this Collection by author, degree, department/division and year, or across all collections in the Repository. We believe this will enhance your online experience.

    Please feel free to contact us for any enquiries.

    «香港中文大學博碩士論文庫»的平台已轉至全新的香港中文大學數碼館藏供讀者參閱。

    新平台新增約2,500冊由縮微膠片數碼化的博士論文，令本論文庫更為完整。此外，讀者亦可選擇以論文作者、學位、學系/學部及年份進行瀏覽或搜索。我們希望藉此提升讀者使用數碼館藏的閱覽體驗。

    如有疑問，歡迎查詢。

    Tuesday, April 19, 2016

    The Launch of CUHK Digital Repository

    After more than a year of preparation, our CUHK Digital Repository was launched on 17 March 2016 together with the opening of our Digit... thumbnail 1 summary

    • After more than a year of preparation, our CUHK Digital Repository was launched on 17 March 2016 together with the opening of our Digital Scholarship Lab mentioned in our previous blog.

    This new Digital Repository is built based on a platform called Islandora. It is an open source framework to manage and showcase the digital objects using a best practices framework. Islandora is popular in Northern America where active user communities have been developed. We are proud to implement and localize the platform as the first known installation in Asia. 

    Dr. Louisa Lam, our Head of Research Support and Digital Initiatives, has been interviewed by the Islandora Foundation. The interview is published in the Islandora Show & Tell. On 27 April 2016 10 PM HKT, we will also work with Discovery Garden, our service consultant, to conduct a webinar about the building of our repository platform, please feel free to register at this link.

    In the coming weeks, our blog will be updated with our major collections and items that are of interests to readers. 


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