SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (SKKU), SEOUL, KOREA
The Korean Confucianism Publication Center at Sungkyunkwan University held a workshop with Harvard University on the subject of "Confucian Culture and Digital Humanities" in the Multimedia Lecture Room on the sixth floor of the 600 Anniversary Hall at 2 PM on March 11th.
At this workshop, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of Korea and co-held by the Korean Confucianism Publication Center at Sungkyunkwan University, and China Biographical Database Project (CBDB) at Harvard University, the experts working at representative institutes of Korea and USA, studying to combine Confucian culture and oriental classics with digital technology will take part. A relevant officer of CBDB at Harvard University is expected to join in the workshop and explain about CBDB database establishment.
Dr. Lik Hang Tsui of CBDB at Harvard University will share his knowledge in a presentation entitled "A Study about Chinese History in the Digital Era", about the progress of CBDB business project of creating a database of Chinese historic figures at HARVARD, as well as geological information systems (GIS), social network analysis (SNA), and statistical research of historic figures about Chinese history.
Dr. Tae Goo Huh of the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies is to present the progress of establishing the database of original texts at Kyujanggak and a related project. Additionally, Dr. Joon Beom Ryu of the National Institute of Korean History is also going to introduce the methods for utilizing online sites, such as the database and, the integrated information system of Korean history for historical information.
Dr. Yong Jun Won at the Korean Confucianism Publication Center at SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY is scheduled to report both the present condition of digitalized Korean Confucian texts and the online sites about them.
The Korean Confucian Publication Center holding the workshop has been setting up the archives of Korean Confucian texts by adding modern sentential marks and freely providing them on the site.
Visit http://ygc.skku.edu to see more about the superiority of Korean Confucian studies.
