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Humanities Informatics Innovation Center Lab
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The center studies texts written in Chinese characters with information science and delivers them through new media.
AboutAbout the lab
Opening up Chinese-character texts through information science.
The Humanities Informatics Innovation Center is the successor to the Center for Oriental Studies Documentation. It was reorganized in October 2023 so that its know-how in researching and digitizing historical sources written in Chinese characters could also be applied to modern and contemporary sources.
Its main mission is to conduct information-science research on Chinese characters and to deliver texts written in Chinese characters widely to researchers through new media. The center creates various databases, and the Toyogaku Bunken Ruimoku (Classified Bibliography of Oriental Studies) is also available on the web.
Key terms
- Digital humanities
- A field that applies the methods of information science to humanities materials and research
- Character encoding
- A set of rules that assigns a number to each character so that computers can handle it
ResearchResearch themes
The center works on building databases of texts written in Chinese characters and on digitizing materials in the humanities.
*Illustrative imageStudy of the Dissolution of Early Modern Society
Professor Takuji Iwaki studies "Study of the Dissolution of Early Modern Society."
*Illustrative imageA Knowledge Base for Buddhist Studies: Zen Buddhism as a Case Study
Professor Christian Wittern studies "A Knowledge Base for Buddhist Studies: Zen Buddhism as a Case Study."
*Illustrative imageCharacter Encoding Theory
Professor Koichi Yasuoka studies "Character Encoding Theory."
*Illustrative imageStudy of Old Japanese Dictionaries Using Digital Humanities
Assistant Professor Yuan Ri studies "Study of Old Japanese Dictionaries Using Digital Humanities."
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorTakuji Iwaki
- ProfessorWITTERN Christian
- ProfessorKoichi Yasuoka
- Associate ProfessorChiyuki Inokuchi
- Associate ProfessorUnregistered Unregistered
- Associate ProfessorTomoyuki Nagata
- Assistant ProfessorWeigong Yang
- Assistant ProfessorYuan Ri
- Assistant ProfessorYongmi Ri
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Center for Innovative Digital Humanities, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 2026” 犭 / CC0 (cropped)
- Study of the Dissolution of Early Modern Society: “Keichō Kuniezu - Settsu Province (Nishinomiya City Museum)” Edo-period cartographer / Public domain (cropped)
- A Knowledge Base for Buddhist Studies: Zen Buddhism as a Case Study: “Ninna-ji and Ryoan-ji, Kyoto - Ryoanji7753” lumoplank / CC0 (cropped)
- Character Encoding Theory: “Japanese katakana typeface having upper line” Kanamojikai [Kana Character Foundation], incorporated under Japanese law, and Kokugo Kyōkai [Japanes / Public domain (cropped)
- Study of Old Japanese Dictionaries Using Digital Humanities: “Wamyō ruijushō Kōzan-ji edition 008” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
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