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[pls Right Click on picture and Save As...to download the picture]Based on  research of basic academic procedures and activities on ancient China Studies, we design a DH cyberinfrastructure conceptual model for ancient China studies(DHC4ACS). The framework is designed to be a digital environment based on open network protocols includes three modules : ·Digitization Module. This module is designed to convert physical objects into digital objects, optical characters recognize, proofread, and finally form an authoritative full-text database with error rate not more than 0.03%. In this module, individuals and different institutes like libraries, museums, archives, galleries could participate in. The authoritative full-text database provide open APIs and rules for any academic use.·Datafication & applications Module. This module is designed to create a large amount of authoritative humanistic datasets, annotate unstructured full texts to transform them into structured ones, and develop various computational applications or digital tools based on datasets and structured full texts. In this module, humanists, IT experts, librarians and field experts work cooperatively or separately, all datasets and structured full texts databases provide open APIs and rules for any academic use.·Digital Ecosystem Module. This module is designed to provide an open digital environment where brings people, information, and computational tools together. The ecosystem runs not only through knowledge lifetime from digitization to datafication, but also through scholars’ academic lifetime from information retrieve, computational tools development to academic achievements production. Humanists could conduct research easily in such digital environment: if they want to retrieve information, they just type the keywords and get it smoothly; if they want to do some further analysis, they can reuse existing datasets and computational tools; while if there is no available data and suitable tools, they could create dataset by themselves according to their requirements or develop new digital tools along with digital technology experts.

To turn the DH Cyberinfrastructure Conceptual Model for Ancient China Studies into reality, we picked ancient Chinese literatures like rare books, rubbings, paintings, calligraphic works, maps as experimental objects. We planned to establish a completed practical procedure for above DHC4ACS.

Figure 1  shows humanists’ academic activities and procedures in traditional Chinese studies steps as follows: (a) Forefathers recorded faithfully what had happened around them, what they thought, talked about and wrote down originally. Some of their records nowadays we call “historical materials”, and others we call philosophy, fiction, prose, drama, poetry and so on. (b) With passage of time, some records have been passing down, while others went missing or were buried with nobles as burial objects. (b.1) For the burial objects underground, archeologists dug them out, classified those objects , recognized the ancient characters on them, sorted them chronologically，compiled and published them as primary literatures. (b.2) For the records passing down: (b.2.1) Some deliberate or unintentional mistakes were made on them for unknown reasons. Different versions were produced and remained to be distinguished and corrected by younger generation. (b.2.2) Authors died, their thoughts and analects became hard to understand. Many activities conducted by younger generations: ·they tried to translate, interpret, comment, make notes in their own way based on their own knowledge, and accordingly some of them formed their academic circles or factions; ·some of them didn’t know which one was right, so they attempted to argue, debate, correct, or just collected their forefathers’ interpretations, comments, notes, and compiled them into a book; ·others of them proofread, annotated, compiled, rewrote, or excerpted according to their own requirements and purposes. (b.2.3) During such procedures, some people recorded faithfully what had happened around them, what they thought, talked about and wrote down originally, and also some of the literatures went missing or were buried underground. (c) With time going on, above academic activities carries out repetitively while outputs are different.