DH Final Project First Pitch: Cultural Relics

Xingyi Zhang
Sat, 29 Oct 2022 01:59:52 +0000
Week 7, Cultural Relics from China, Final Project

Members of the group: Sean Zhang, Xingyi Zhang, Katrina Li

The definition of the project topic and objectives for what you plan to produce

Our project topic: mapping the production sites of the artworks in The British Museum that has a Chinese origin.

Objectives: explore patterns of locations and production dynasties ( maybe also other variables) of those Chinese artifacts lost overseas.

The proposed methodology:

Data Analysis, Data visualization, GIS.

Sources: What data do you hope to use and how do you hope to find it?

The British Museum online collection https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection

Processes: What tools and techniques will you use to gather sources and store your data? What analyses or transformations will you conduct on those data?

We are going to download the data from the British Museum’s website. We will use open refine to clean our csv file and select a subset of interesting artifacts from the file.

Presentation: How will you present the results and integrate the digital assets you create as an interactive final product?

We will bin them by their production date (dynasty), then locate and pin the origin of those artifacts on the GIS map.

The proposed timeline of deliverables

Week 8:

Tuesday: Data cleaning

Thursday – Sunday : Visualization & Mapping & Web

Week 9:

Tuesday: Visualization & Mapping & Web

Thursday: Write up

A link to one or more DH projects that you think might make a good model for what you plan to do.

https://www.giscloud.com/blog/mapping-the-most-popular-exhibits-in-museums-across-europe

Message from members about personal interests and goals:

Katrina Li: I am interested in knowing more about which provinces in China contribute the most to the cultural impression of China in western culture.

Xingyi: I read about the sack of the Summer Palace in primary school and knew that many Chinese artifacts were lost in other countries. I wish to better understand the details and impact of those events.

Tianyi Zhang: I keep hearing there are a lot of cultural relics from China lost in foreign lands, but I never have a sense of how many are lost. I view this project as an opportunity to gain the education about cultural relics of my own country.