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Recent Posts
- Guest blog: Andrew Hillier on Armistice Day and its Aftermath in Treaty Port China
- Guest blog: Kaori Abe on the Abe Naoko Collection –– a glimpse of a Japanese family’s life in Shanghai, c.1927-c.1934
- Guest blog: Ghassan Moazzin on Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China
- Guest blog: Helena Lopes on A connected place: Macau in the Second World War
- Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking Part 2
- Guest blog: Rachel Meller on Uncovering the story of Shanghai’s Second World War Jewish refugees
- Andrew Hillier on Bessie Pirkis: A Renaissance Woman in Peking
- Need and opportunity: the new HPC website
- Everything’s changed, but everything’s still the same: HPC update
- Location/Dislocation – Admiral Keppel, the Chinese Buddha at Sandringham and three key photographs
- The Forbidden City at War: Images of the Wartime Evacuation of the Imperial Art Collections
- A name, a photograph, and a history of global connections
- ‘Normal’ Lives Led in Abnormal Conditions
- Charles Frederick Moore’s photographs of the ruins of the European-style palaces (西洋楼) at the Yuanmingyuan (圆明园)
- Pieces of China in Bristol – cataloguing Historical Photographs of China material
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Category Archives: Digitisation
Technical workshop on Cross-searching digital collections
On the 21st September, Visualising China held a very useful workshop in Bristol, looking at the problems of cross-searching multiple remote collections by providing users with a search over integrated data, harvested periodically from target sites/services. The workshop aimed to … Continue reading
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Report from User Engagement workshop
On 7th September we held a successful user engagement workshop to coincide with the British Association for Chinese Studies annual conference. The workshop was attended by eminent academics, postgraduates and researchers from half a dozen different countries and was extremely … Continue reading
Linking the Knowledge Base to External Content
The Visualising China demo now links to all the images, plus some metadata, in the Historical Photographs of China collection (which was first put online at http://chp.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/). One of the goals in this project is to allow end-users (researchers and … Continue reading
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Visualising China at the JISC eContent Programme Meeting
Last month Simon Price and Nikki Rogers attended the first Programme Meeting for the 11 new projects funded by the new JISC e-Content Programme. We had several useful discussions with other projects such as those who like Visualising China are … Continue reading
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Visualising China – Cross-searching Photographs from British Collections in a Web 2.0 context
The Visualising China project starts next month (September 2009) and runs into 2011. It is a collaboration between the I.L.R.T at the University of Bristol and the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol, building on recent digitisation … Continue reading
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