Members of the Digital Humanities Working Group facilitate the work of the three other working groups by designing tools, tagging and categorizing data to facilitate comparisons, and tracking the use and reuse of substances, prescriptions, and ideas. They have already or are currently in the process of creating digital archives of medical manuscripts, daily-use compendia, and medical periodicals. They are extracting metadata from these materials and designing tools for detecting visual and textual copying across sources.
Working group members: Shih-pei Chen, Joachim Prackwieser, Nalini Kirk, Calvin Yeh, Che-chia Chang, Marijn Fennema, Joan Judge
Please note: there is an overlap between the topics covered in the different working groups and in working group members. While we will continue to debate and interrogate these divisions, they are a way of organizing the different facets of work we will undertake in the project.
Image: Bao Xiang’ao 鮑相璈. (Zengguang) Yanfang xinbian: Wanbing ziliao 增廣驗方新編 : 萬病自療 ([Expanded] New collection of proven prescriptions: Self-treatment for a myriad of illnesses). Shanghai: Guangyi shuju, 1946.