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Thursday, May 31, 2018

Unlocking the Value of Open Data

As a launch event of the Open Data Initiative of Social Science Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong, this Open Data Conference ... thumbnail 1 summary
    • As a launch event of the Open Data Initiative of Social Science Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong, this Open Data Conference brings together data owners from public and private sectors, as well as open data practitioners to share best practices and quick-wins of using open data to diagnose problems and raise competitiveness of Hong Kong.
    Date: 9 June 2018 (Sat)
    Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
    Venue: Hall ll, Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre, Centennial Campus, HKU
    Registration and Conference information: http://www.ssrc.hku.hk/open_data.php




    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.
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