Digitization
Contents digitized from library materials or materials collected from university departments
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(Launched Mar 2015, Updated Aug 2022)
- Provides an index to over 58,000 film, overseas Chinese, and religion-related materials published in early Chinese newspapers (1900-1976) from around the world
- 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.
MagazinesMovieTVHistoryData VisualizationOCR
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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
360° photoAnimationArtworkCreative WritingDocumentary FilmMovieMusic
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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
DocumentaryScholarly TalkTeaching VideoTV ProgramDigital ScholarshipProjects collaborated with HKBU academics with specific research themes-
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(Launched Aug 2022) NEW
- A collection of parts and full scores of 51 pieces of Chinese instrumental ensemble music preserved in the Music Office (MO) of the Hong Kong LCSD.
- Prof. Helan Yang (Academy of Music)
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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)
MagazinesPoliticsHistory
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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)
HistoryBibliography
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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)
BookplateArtworkCultural Study
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Pok Fu Lam Fire Dragon Dance
- A partnership research project under the Intangible Cultural Heritage Funding Scheme (HKSAR government), which documents the Pok Fu Lam Fire Dragon Dance during the Mid-Autumn Festival
- Prof. Chung Po Yin (Department of History)
- Uses geographic information systems (GIS) to build a web map about the Battle of Hong Kong and a database of British military installations in Hong Kong during the Second World War
- QEF version of the project is also available here.
- Dr. Kwong Chi Man (Department of History)
- This project adopts Spatial History approach and other textual and visual sources to introduce the history of the BAAG
- Dr. Kwong Chi Man (Department of History)
- Showcases a collection of Dr. Sun yat-sen imagery collected from around the world.
- Prof. Clara Ho (Department of History)
- Introduces 106 Sun Yat-sen Parks worldwide, scattered across the Greater China Region, the United States, Canada, and Singapore
- Prof. Clara Ho (Department of History)
- A QEF project that showcases a collection of 3D models of historical artifacts.
- Dr. Sammy Li Kin-Sum (Department of History)
- Displays individual entries and aggregate graphs of a dataset that shows the types and quantity of tribute items exchanged in Heilongjian during Qing dynasty
- Dr. Loretta Kim (Department of History)
(Launched Aug 2022) NEW
The Battle of Hong Kong 1941: A Spatial History Project
(Launched Sep 2021)
Hong Kong Resistance: the British Army Aid Group, 1942-1945 地下抗戰：香港淪陷與英軍服務團，1942-1945
(Launched Dec 2020)
Pictorial Representations of Sun Yat-sen 孫中山圖像庫
(Launched: Jan 2022)
Sun Yat-sen Parks in the World 中山公園數據庫
(Launched Mar 2016, Updated Jul 2017)
Teaching Chinese History with 3D Models of Artifacts 中國歷史教學與3D文物
(Launched: Dec 2021)
Tribute Data Curation 貢品數據管理
(Launched Sep 2014)Data VisualizationHistoryGIS
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(Launched Oct 2021)
- 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)
FacebookNewsAnalytic
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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)
Energy EstimationEnvironmentGIS
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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
GISBirdFrog
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The Chinese/English Political Interpreting Corpus
- 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)
- 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)
(Launched Jun 2019)
Corpus of Political Speeches
(Launched Dec 2015, Updated Aug 2017)LinguisticPoliticsCorpusTranslation
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(Launched Sep 2021)
- 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)
Data VisualizationJournalismNewspaper
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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)
Data VisualizationMaterialismInterview
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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)
MusicIncipitsHistory
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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)
ChristiansHistory
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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)
Data VisualizationMinoritiesSurveys
