Abstract
Digital humanities (DH) is a burgeoning field of research in Sinology and Asian studies more broadly, and its diversity and maturity necessitate a cyberinfrastructure fit for DH-focused Sinologists' specific needs. is our solution. It is a pioneering approach for resource dissemination and emerging data analytics (such as text mining and other fair-use, consumptive research techniques) in the humanities. It is a language-agnostic software that facilitates the secure linkage between third-party research tools to different third-party textual collections (both licensed and open-access ones) via application programming interfaces (APIs). It revolutionizes how scholars can work with textual sources by promoting a flexible, networked approach to e-infrastructure development. Crucially, Asia Network is a loosely-coupled software with flexible topologies; it can enable both federated or centralized linkages, and it can even disappear as long as its API standards remain in place to facilitate communications among databases and tools in the backend. Thus, unlike large-scale infrastructural projects, Asia Network actively lowers the profile of centralized infrastructure and instead promotes existing tools and resources by enabling their interoperability. As a result, it allows scholars to fully leverage the potential of material digitization and digital research tools without re-creating silos of resources in the digital realm.
Highlights
Digital humanities (DH) is a burgeoning field of research in Sinology and Asian studies more broadly
“Asia Network” is our answer to this question [6]. It is a pioneering approach for resource dissemination and emerging data analytics in the humanities. It is a language-agnostic software that facilitates the secure linkage between third-party research tools to different third-party textual collections via application programming interfaces (APIs)
The Asia Network software can securely pass through these licensed texts to digital research tools, allowing scholars to work in a legal manner and ensuring commercial publishers the safety of their collections
Summary
Digital humanities (DH) is a burgeoning field of research in Sinology and Asian studies more broadly. It is a pioneering approach for resource dissemination and emerging data analytics (such as text mining and other fair-use, consumptive research techniques) in the humanities It is a language-agnostic software that facilitates the secure linkage between third-party research tools to different third-party textual collections (both licensed and open-access ones) via application programming interfaces (APIs). The Asia Network software can securely pass through these licensed texts to digital research tools, allowing scholars to work in a legal manner and ensuring commercial publishers the safety of their collections Such flexible, networked approach to e-infrastructure development avoids recreating silos of resources in the digital realm and allow scholars to fully leverage the potential of material digitization and digital research tools. We outline (1) the current landscape of DH in Sinology and what we see as the main challenges it presents to researchers; (2) a basic summary of Asia Network’s functions and features design; and (3) a call for collaborators to develop common API and metadata standards for DH in Sinology
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