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7000 of the digitised historical photographs of China have full metadata and are available for exposure online. We propose to enhance this collection by building on sophisticated visualisation Web software from the JISC-funded STARS project. We will upload the images to a Bristol-hosted database searchable by STARS software and extend STARS technology to support image annotation (it currently implements resource and video annotation) and also cross-searching in a Web 2.0 context to seamlessly integrate related content from Google Scholar, Google Books and Google Images among other valuable third party resources to include Virtual Shanghai and Queen’s University Belfast’s Hart Digital Image Gallery.
With China an increasingly significant superpower in the current economic climate, Mandarin growing at Secondary and primary level and Chinese History entering A level and GCSE syllabuses there is nonetheless a lack of resources relating to this period. This project aims to expand the Bristol collection and cross-search with related China collections in an extensible, social software context thus offering a major and authoritative open access resource to support research, teaching and learning.Contact:
Ms Nicola Rogers
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Visualising China
The following people are involved with this project:
Dr Simon Price Research Fellow Tel. (0117) 39 41626 simon.price@bristol.ac.uk
Mr Jasper Tredgold SLSP Team Manager Tel. (0117) 4550782 jasper.tredgold@bristol.ac.uk
More about this project
Funded by the JISC (within the eContent Programme) Visualising China builds on recent digitisation work undertaken by the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol culminating in the presence of a large, growing collection of historical photographs of China. Approximately 15,000 digital images were created in total, 5000 of which are searchable and browsable at http://chp.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr, covering a date range of 1870 to 1950.7000 of the digitised historical photographs of China have full metadata and are available for exposure online. We propose to enhance this collection by building on sophisticated visualisation Web software from the JISC-funded STARS project. We will upload the images to a Bristol-hosted database searchable by STARS software and extend STARS technology to support image annotation (it currently implements resource and video annotation) and also cross-searching in a Web 2.0 context to seamlessly integrate related content from Google Scholar, Google Books and Google Images among other valuable third party resources to include Virtual Shanghai and Queen’s University Belfast’s Hart Digital Image Gallery.
With China an increasingly significant superpower in the current economic climate, Mandarin growing at Secondary and primary level and Chinese History entering A level and GCSE syllabuses there is nonetheless a lack of resources relating to this period. This project aims to expand the Bristol collection and cross-search with related China collections in an extensible, social software context thus offering a major and authoritative open access resource to support research, teaching and learning.
- Project dates
- 16 Oct 2009
For further information, see the project's website:
visualisingchina.ilrt.bris.ac.uk
- Project director(s):
- Researchers in Chinese History
- Project collaborator(s):
- Department for Historical Studies
- JISC