Methods of digital research in the humanities, with Chan-Buddhism as example
Overview of the research
At this moment in time, a large corpus of digital text and other data is available. Our task is now to find methods to make best use of these materials and discover insights that were not visible hitherto. I am compiling a database of important texts linked to other materials to further discoveries within this text. The focus of the texts lies in texts related to the Chan-School of Chinese Buddhism.
Research Interests
Digital Informatics
中国仏教
CHINESE BUDDHISM
Research Areas
Humanities & social sciences, Philosophy - Chinese, Indian, Buddhist
Papers
Zen, Motorcycles and Burning Buddhas
Christian Wittern
Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies, 01 Oct. 2020, Peer-reviewed
Digital Texts in Practice
Christian Wittern
Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, 15 May 2020, Peer-reviewed, Invited
From the Jingde Chuandeng Lu to the Wudeng Huiyuan -- Changes in the Chan School and the Editing of Lamp Histories
Wittern, Christian
From the Jingde Chuandeng Lu to the Wudeng Huiyuan --Changes in the Chan School and the Editing of Lamp Histories, Dec. 2019, Peer-reviewed
Morphological Analysis of Classical Chinese Texts and Its Application [in Japanese]
The role of the Tripitaka Koreana as a Model of the Digital Tripitaka
WITTERN Christian
International Symposium in Commemoration of Millenial Anniversary of the Tripitaka Koreana. Millenial Tripitaka Koreana, Communicate with the World, Gwangjon (Korea), p.52-71, Sep. 2011, Peer-reviewed
Some Remarks Concerning Digital Editions of Premodern Chinese Texts
WITTERN Christian
International Conference New Directions in Textual Scholarship at the University of Saitama, 26 Mar. 2011
Notes on some Anecdotes pertaining to Ritual and Punishment from the Recorded Sayings of Chan Buddhism
WITTERN Christian
冨谷 至(編)東アジアにおける礼儀と刑罰, 京都, p.83-110, 25 Mar. 2011, Peer-reviewed
Mandoku – An Incubator for Premodern Chinese Texts – or How to Get the Text We Want: An Inquiry into the Ideal Workflow
WITTERN Christian
Digital Humanities 2010, p. 271-273., 01 Jul. 2010, Peer-reviewed
Rebirth of the Daozang Jiyao -- The never-ending Process of Creating a Digital Edition
WITTERN Christian
Cultural Crossings: China and Beyond in the Medieval Period Conference -- Digital Projects in Asian Art and Humanities Workshop, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 12 Mar. 2010, Peer-reviewed
海外Digital Humanitiesの動向と日本
WITTERN Christian
The First International Conference on Culture and Computing in Kyoto, 22 Feb. 2010
「The Text in the Age of Digital Reproduction」
WITTERN Christian
The Role of Buddhism in the 21st Century. Proceedings of the Fourth Chung-Hwa International Conference on Buddhism, pp.389-414., 2005, Peer-reviewed
「The Issue of Rare Characters: Coding, Input and Output」
WITTERN Christian
Annual meeting of Pacific Neighbourhood Consortium May 15-18, 1998. Proceedings, pp.449-472., 1998
Presentations
New texts for the 漢學文典 Hanxue Wendian database
Christian Wittern
International Conference on the Digitalization, Retrospection, and Prospects of Taiwan’s Buddhist Resources, 18 Apr. 2024, Invited
Finding one in the many ones: Usages of 一 yī in the 景德傳燈錄 Jingde chuandeng lu (KR6q0003)
Christian Wittern
Conceptualising ‘One’ (一) Working Towards a Unified Understanding, 24 Jan. 2024, Invited
Interactive analytical search as a means for discovery in a large text corpus of premodern Chinese texts
Christian Wittern
PNC 2023 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings, 04 Nov. 2023
Considerations for an interactive analytical search procedure in a large text corpus of premodern Chinese texts
Christian Wittern
第36回研究セミナー「東洋学へのコンピュータ利用」, 28 Jul. 2023
「正命」は現代社会においては可能か? サステナビリティの思想史的な背景と限界
ウィッテルン クリスティアン
武蔵野大学仏教文化研究所シンポジウム, 25 Feb. 2023, Invited
デジタル漢籍の誕生:紙から画面へ
ウィッテルン クリスティアン
TOKYO漢籍SEMINAR, 07 Mar. 2022, Invited
KanripoX: デジタル・テキストを繫げるためのタグ集
ウィッテルン クリスティアン
東洋学へのコンピュータ利用 第33回研究セミナー, 05 Mar. 2021
TLS Workshop
Christian Wittern
TLS workshop at Princeton, 14 Feb. 2020
Multilayered Texts in Theory and Practice: Introducing a Workbench for Sustainable Research
Christian Wittern
Digital Text Analysis in Traditional Chinese Studies: Exploring Possibilities of the Computational Analysis of Multilayered Texts, 06 Dec. 2019, Invited
Digitization of printed and manuscript historical records: general and specific problems, methods, and results (with example from recent digitization projects of Chan records and the Daoist canon)
Christian Wittern
Doctoral School on Buddhist Historical Records, 23 Oct. 2019, Invited
Zen, Motorcycles and Burning Buddhas
Christian Wittern
B UDDHISM & TECHNOLOGY: H ISTORICAL B ACKGROUND AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES, 21 Sep. 2019, Invited
The Kanseki Repository 漢籍資料庫
Christian Wittern
Conference on a Digital Foundation for Sinology, 15 Mar. 2018, Invited
The CBETA Project
Christian Wittern
Buddhist Lexicography in the 21st century, 02 Mar. 2018, Invited
The Thesaurus Linguae Sericae 漢學大典
Christian Wittern
Buddhist Lexicography in the 21st century, 01 Mar. 2018, Invited
Effective Identification of Textual Reuse in the Kanseki Repository
Christian Wittern
Digital Humanities 2017, Montreal, 09 Mar. 2017
The Kanseki Repository: Methodology and Background
Christian Wittern
Heidelberg University, 15 Feb. 2017, Invited
Supporting research using premodern Chinese: Kanseki Repository, Emacs and Mandoku
Christian Wittern
Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, 29 Dec. 2016, Invited
The Kanseki Repository: A new online resource for Chinese textual studies
Christian Wittern
Conference of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, 13 Sep. 2016
A new online database for Chinese texts: The Kanseki Repository
Christian Wittern
DIGITAL RESEARCH IN EAST ASIAN STUDIES: CORPORA, METHODS, AND CHALLENGES, 11 Jul. 2016, Invited
Textual and Image Markup
Christian Wittern
SUMMER SCHOOL IN CHINESE DIGITAL HUMANITIES, 06 Jul. 2016, Invited
A new online database for Chinese texts: The Kanseki Repository
Christian Wittern
Princeton University, 05 May 2016, Invited
Kanripo and Mandoku: Tools for Distributed Repositories of Premodern Chinese Texts
Christian Wittern
Digital Humanities 2014, 10 Jul. 2014
A first look at Kanripo, a distributed repository for premodern Chinese texts
Christian Wittern
PNC 2013 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings, 10 Dec. 2013
The Digital Daozang Jiyao ー How to get the edition into the Scholar's labs
Christian Wittern
digital humanities 2012, 18 Jul. 2012
Books and Other Publications
Chán Buddhism in Dūnhuáng and Beyond: A Study of Manuscripts, Texts, and Contexts in Memory of John R. McRae
Chinesische und manjurische Handschriften und seltene Drucke Teil 7: Chinesische Blockdrucke aus der Berliner Turfansammlung, Verzeichnis der Orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland
麥谷邦夫(編) 三教交渉論叢續編、京都, p.471-499., 25 Mar. 2011, Not refereed
Notes on some Anecdotes pertaining to Ritual and Punishment from the Recorded Sayings of Chan Buddhism.
Christian Wittern, 東アジアにおける礼儀と刑罰
Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto, Mar. 2011, Not refereed
Text and Tradition in Chinese Buddhism
WITTERN Christian
Research on the Chinese Materials in the Berlin Turfan Collection: Continued, edited by Tsuneki Nishiwaki, Kyoto, p. 105-111., 25 Mar. 2009, Not refereed
「Das ‘Yulu’ des Chan-Buddhismus. Die Entwicklung vom 8.-11. Jahrhundert am Beispiel des 28. Kapitels des Jingde chuandenglu (1004)」
WITTERN Christian
(Schweizerische Asiatische Studien, Monographien Bd.31) Peter Lang, 1998, Not refereed
Das Yulu des Chan-Buddhismus
Schweizerische Asiatische Studien,31 : Peter Lang, 1998, Not refereed
Works
TLS - Thesaurus Linguae Sericae
Christoph Harbsmeier; Jiang Shaoyu; Christian Schwermann; Christian Wittern
From 29 Mar. 2019, To Present
Kanseki Repository
Christian Wittern
From 15 Mar. 2016, To Present
漢文電子佛典製作興運用文研究
From 1999, To 2002
A Study on Creation and Application of Electronic Chinese Buddhist Texts
From 1999, To 2002
A project for dealing with the missing character problem
From 2000
解決缺字問題計晝
From 2000
The IRIZ Kanjibase
From 1992, To 1995
IRIZ KanjiBase
From 1992, To 1995
IRIZ漢字ベース
From 1992, To 1995
External funds: Kakenhi
Dependency-Parsing in Classical Chinese under Universal Dependencies
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
Basic Section 90020:Library and information science, humanistic and social informatics-related
Kyoto University
Koichi YASUOKA
From 01 Apr. 2020, To 31 Mar. 2023, Project Closed