Chinese

is finally in print!

It was a long road. Thank you to the ICHD team of Grace Fong (McGill), Michael Fuller (UC Irvine), and Peter Bol and Lex Berman (Harvard). Thanks also to Jimmy Li and Jin Xing for making this a reality.

Renee E. Sieber, Christopher C. Wellen, and Yuan Jin. 2011. Spatial cyberinfrastructures, ontologies, and the humanities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(14): 5504-5509.

Our research assistant, and Flex extraordinaire, Jimmy Li, has posted the ontology based GUI onto sourceforge.

He describes it as the

"GUI front-end of a Chinese historical database built using Flex. The search interface is a tree-structured concept map, where similar criterion are organized into subtrees that can be expanded when clicked. This aims to make searching more intuitive."

Grace Fong and Renee Sieber, of Mc Gill University, along with Michael Fuller of University of California Irvine and Peter Bol, Harvard University have won a grant to Integrate Chinese Biographical and Geographic Databases. Sieber's role is to build an ontology-driven cyberinfrastructure to do the actual integration.