History

A database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE. A base GIS platform for researchers to use in spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical units as digital maps.

In collaboration with CHGIS, the Russian Academy of Science, Institute of Geography in Moscow is cataloging and digitizing important historical maps that were produced by Russian cartographers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Robert Hartwell datasets consist of five historical layers for the years: 741 (Tang), 1080 (Northern Song), 1200 (Southern Song), 1290 (Yuan), 1391(Ming)

The China Historical Geographic Information System, CHGIS, project was launched in January 2001 to establish a database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE. CHGIS provides a base GIS platform for researchers to use in spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical units as digital maps.

The China Biographical Database is a freely accessible relational database with biographical information about approximately 360,000 individuals as of April 2015, primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries. With both online and offline versions, the data is meant to be useful for statistical, social network, and spatial analysis as well as serving as a kind of biographical reference. The image below shows the spatial distribution of a cross dynastic subset of 190,000 people in CBDB by basic affiliations (籍貫).

This platform provides data on Anti-Japanese War and Modern Sino-Japan Relationship with textual documents, images, videos, audios, etc.

Digital Humanities Platform of Shanghai Library gathers links to various Chinese humanity data platforms of modern newspapers, advertisements, periodicals, modern books, genealogies, ancient books, family archives, etc. Besides, the portal provides maps that displays the origins of documents, and offers knowledge graphs that demonstrate the internal relationships among documents.

The open data, in the form of Linked Data, supporting the Digital Humanities Project can be found here: http://data.library.sh.cn/index. The platform publishes the general knowledge base (people, places, time, events, and objects), literature knowledge base (genealogy, archive and manuscripts, ancient books, etc.), and ontology vocabulary used in the digital humanities project. Examples include Name Authority Database, Chinese Surname List, Seal Knowledge Base, Taboo Knowledge Base, Engraver Knowledge Base etc.

The collection provides first-hand accounts from the participants of China's Down to the Countryside Movement, including their diaries, letters, photographs, and artifacts. The Dartmouth Library has been collecting these materials since 2016.

A project to create and maintain databases of spatially- and temporally-referenced data on China. It reconstructs Chinese administrative geography for specific historical dates, and allows for comparison of spatial data at two points in time, whether over years or over centuries.

An online database collecting local records in China, covering 31 provincial administrative regions in mainland China as well as Macau and Taiwan. The earliest records dated back to the Tang Dynasty.