Digital Humanities
Library Digital Scholarship Roadshow
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Since spring 2022, the Division of Humanities and the Library have partnered to run the Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI), a community that unites faculty, library staff, and students to learn digital methods and develop humanities‑focused digital projects.

In spring 2024, the Library launched DS CoLab, a collaborative, co-learning program for students and the Library’s Digital Scholarship team to explore digital tools and methods to tackle various challenges.

This roadshow presents a selection of projects from DHI and DS CoLab, demonstrating how members of our community are experimenting with digital technologies to support research, enhance learning, and explore new forms of storytelling at HKUST.

We invite you to discover these projects and see firsthand how creativity and technology merge to advance humanistic research at HKUST.

Poster Session

Visit our Digital Scholarship Roadshow posters and dive into the stories behind each project!

AR/VR Try-outs

Visit us and experience viewing Ancient Map in AR and exploring old Kowloon City store in VR!

**12 - 2pm only

Digital Humanities Initiative

A joint effort between the Library and the School of Humanities and Social Science (SHSS) and faculty members to support faculty-led digital humanities projects

Featured Projects
Zheng he
A Study of “Zheng He’s Voyages to the Western Sea” 《三寶太監西洋記》 2023 Fall
visualization of Lee Yonggang project
Digitalizing Lee Yonggang’s Diaries: Preserving History and Cultural Connections 2024 Fall
shafei
Sha Fei and Wartime Photography 2023 Fall
hk1997 collage
HK1997 2023 Spring

DS CoLab 

A collaborative, co-learning program for students and the Library’s Digital Scholarship team to address practical challenges

Featured Projects

Image Tracking in AR
Tales from a 1493 World Map: Playing with Augmented Reality (AR) 2025 Spring
heat map
Temperature Heatmap on Library Floor Plan 2024 Summer
preview of topic modelling tool
English and Chinese Topic Modeling Tool 2024 Fall
overview of NER tool
Chinese Named-Entity Recognition (NER) Tool 2024 Spring
Event Details:
Dates
16 - 20 Mar 2026
Location

Academic Concourse (Outside LT-A)

Time

Full Day: Poster Session
12-2pm: AR/VR Try-outs