Digital Scholarship Services
Digital scholarship is an area of research and teaching that uses digital technologies to extend the life of scholarly sources and create research tools, with a view to facilitating information sharing and new research findings. Through collaborating with professors and researchers, the Library supports digitization with OCR, data visualization, GIS applications, corpus development, crowd-sourcing projects, e-journal publishing, among other areas. We hope to provide a stronger support for the University's vision of teaching and research, data analytic, and knowledge sharing.
For metadata standardization and the facilitation of enhanced data discovery (via Google & other means) and data sharing, the following mechanisms have been in use since 2020 and applied to all our digital projects as much as possible:
- RDF with schema.org as the metadata structure
- RESTful API
- JSON-LD
- open graph protocol
Search Across Digital Projects
This quick search enables you to easily discover
220,320 multimedia objects (images, videos, e-documents, etc.) stored in different projects.
Projects solely based on text (e.g.,
HKBU Corpora) or data (e.g.,
Yinheritance) are not covered here. Go
here to see the full project list.
Digitization
Contents digitized from library materials or materials collected from university departments
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(Launched Mar 2015, Updated Apr 2022)
- Provides an index to over 24,000 film and religion-related materials in early Chinese newspapers (1900-1976) from Asia
- Former project name: 早期華文報紙電影史料庫
- Prof. Emilie Yeh (Academy of Film)
- Union Research Institute
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(Launched Sep 2020)
- Collects TV and film publications published in HK during the British colonial period, including TVB Weekly (full collection), TV brochures (75+ titles) and movie pamphlets (200+ titles), with data analytic tools. This collection will continue to grow.
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(Launched Sep 2013, Updated Jul 2019)
- Showcases over 1,120 creative outputs produced by HKBU faculty and students, including artworks, movies, documentary films, animations, music performances, and creative writings
- Academy of Film, Academy of Visual Arts, Department of Communication Studies, Department of Humanities & Creative Writing, Department of Journalism, Department of Music
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(Launched Jul 2009, Updated Monthly)
- Provides over 26,000 documentary films produced by local TV companies, over 840 videos of conferences and seminars held on campus, over 85 teaching videos created by HKBU faculty, and over 80 other campus videos
Digital Scholarship
Projects collaborated with HKBU academics with specific research themes
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(Launched Sep 2015)
- Examines disparate religious approaches to ecological resources, shares 13 sessions of teaching materials on creation care, and displays 880 photos on HK's environment
- Dr. Keith Chan (Department of Religion and Philosophy)
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(Launched Oct 2020)
- Shares part of the personal archive kept by Mr. Augustine Chiu-yu Mok about The 1970's syndicate and Asian People's Theatre practitioners
- Dr. Jessica Yeung (Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies)
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(Launched Sep 2019)
- Showcases 440+ Chinese calligraphy work by Han Yunshan including scrolls, couplets, paper fans, copybooks, etc.
- Dr. Daniel Lau (Visual Arts)
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(Launched Mar 2020)
- This trilingual, open-access bibliography catalogs works by William Empson published in China and Japan.
- Prof. Stuart Christie (Department of English Language and Literature)
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(Launched May 2015, Updated Aug 2017)
- Provides a detailed introduction to realism anthology, over 4,200 full-text pages of historical documents from National Archives of UK and India, reviews of 248 local and overseas documentary films, interview transcripts with 24 important Indian documentary film scholars and filmmakers, and more
- Project former name: South and South-East Asia documentary Film Research Website
- Prof. Ian Aitken, Dr. Camille Deprez (Academy of Film)
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(Launched Oct 2018, Updated Oct 2019)
- Presents education history and cultural heritage of HKBU's School of Communication, containing information of the School's milestones as well as alumni interviews and photos (a CoP grant project)
- Dr. Angela Mak (Department of Communication Studies)
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(Launched Apr 2019, Updated May 2020)
- Virtually showcases 900 bookplates collected all over the world including some very valuable pieces and facilitates bookplate research
- Dr. Sarah Ng (Visual Arts)
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(Launched Oct 2021) NEW
- Presents data of 17 HK news outlet Facebook public pages from January 2019 to June 2021, including post text, post comments, post URLs, and user engagement statistics with built-in analytical tools
- Dr. Stephanie Tsang (Department of Communication Studies)
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(Launched Nov 2016, Updated Jul 2017)
- Facilitates estimation of solar energy generated from installing solar panels on rooftops
- Dr. Kevin Lo, Dr. Daphne Mah, Prof. Qiming Zhou (Department of Geography)
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(Launched Oct 2019)
- Provides a detailed account of Piu Sik Parade from its history to techniques with a view to promoting and introducing HK traditional culture
- Dr. Leung Mee Ping (Visual Arts)
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(Launched Oct 2019, Updated Nov 2020)
- Displays 67,970 sets of survey data across four survey periods using GIS applications with bird and frog information and soundtracks
- Hong Kong Bird Watching Society
- Dr. Karen Woo, College of International Education
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The Chinese/English Political Interpreting Corpus
(Launched Jun 2019)
- Designed for the study of Chinese/English political interpreting and translations with political speeches from HK, China, US, and UK along with their translated/interpreted outputs (6,461,535 words)
- Dr. Janice Pan (Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies)
Corpus of Political Speeches
(Launched Dec 2015, Updated Aug 2017)
- Facilitates linguistic analysis of English political speeches from HK and US (4,843,177 words) and Chinese political speeches from HK, Taiwan, and China (1,426,182 words) with part-of-speech tagging
- Prof. Kathleen Ahrens (Language Centre)
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(Launched Sep 2021) NEW
- Collects anthologies that include English and French translations of Hong Kong literature originally written in Chinese, provided with interviews of authors and translators
- Dr. Maialen Marin-Lacarta (Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies)
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(Launched May 2017)
- Contains data and further information addressing the disconnection between ideals and practice in journalsim in mainland Chinese press and HK press, as part of the international collaborative project “Journalistic Role Performance around the Globe”
- Prof. Colin Sparks (Department of Journalism)
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(Launched Sep 2017)
- Presents the raw data and aggregate graphs of fourteen interview studies on materialism among children and youth. These studies were conducted across four Asian regions over fifteen years.
- Prof. Kara Chan (Department of Communication Studies)
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(Launched Sep 2018)
- Facilitates searching and browsing of over 600 pieces from some 70 manuscripts about Jean-Baptiste Lully's keyboard arrangements
- Prof. David Chung (Department of Music)
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(Launched Oct 2019)
- Captures Christians' involvement in social issues from 1969 to 1997 with 851 event records shared, as well as full interview transcripts with 19 Christian leaders
- Dr. Kwok Wai Luen (Department of Religion and Philosophy)
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(Launched Nov 2015)
- Crowdsources assessments of over 50 translations of a Finnish novel
- Prof. Douglas Robinson (Faculty of Arts)
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(Launched Sep 2020)
- Provides research results and statistics on men in Greater China, hoping to form future directions in terms of men's service delivery
- Dr. Simon Wong (Social Work)
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(Launched Oct 2018)
- Facilitates users to explore six key areas of Yi children's development, using two sets of longitudinal data gathered from 2007 to 2014.
- Dr. Angel Lai (Department of Social Work)