This section the development of online collections of pre-modern medical texts, and tools to analyse them. This work began with the Drugs Across Asia project, which investigated ways to better situate drug medical terminology in the Daoist and Buddhist canons. The tools are thus also applicable to the study of Chinese religions. This project is the foundation for a transregional collaboration to study the migration of drugs across language corpuses.
Project Descriptions
Online Lecture: Data-mining the Buddhist and Daoist Canons
Gives an overview of scholarly questions and digital tools for the study of pre-modern Chinese texts. Discusses the combined use of Docusky, Markus and Palladio to track the distribution of term clusters in the Daoist and Buddhist Canons. Also includes data and a brief exercise for using MARKUS.
Workshop Files: pptx, instruction manual, sample data Download
The Question: Situating Drug Knowledge in China
New Digital Tools
Panel Paper
Technical & Acknowledgements
Video Lecture
Max Planck Site
Looking Beyond East Asian Sources
Having developed the platform for Chinese/Japanese/Korean sources, the project is looking towards development for other classical and medieval languages. Here are the details of our first workshop in this vein: Medicines across Eurasia
Online Tools
DOCUSKY: Toolsets for hosting and analysing textual corpora.
MARKUS: Platform for marking up the texts.
PALLADIO: Simple network analysis tool to visualise your Docusky search results.
KANRIPO: A repository for Buddhist, Daoist and other historical and literary texts (check out their Github here for downloading en bloc).
Tips and Tricks
Datasets
Culpeper Dataset Download
MSB’s Chinese Drug Term List, 2grams and higher doi:10.21979/N9/GCVUUO
Comprehensive Index to the Daoist Canon doi:10.21979/N9/BWLRQJ
Clarke Hudson’s Complete Index of Daoist Texts doi:10.21979/N9/UV710D
Buddhist and Daoist Canon Full Metadata: Download
Buddhist and Daoist Full Canon Datasets: doi.org/10.21979/N9/REE4MJ (Watch this space)
