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MARKUS
Description
MARKUS is a CJK text annotation tool, which has plug-ins from the major Chinese historical datasets, such as CHGIS, Dharma Drum, Chinese Biographical Database, and other bells and whistles. It is the standard for Chinese text marking, and has high coordination with DocuSky. it was first designed to automate the markup of different kinds of named entities (personal names, place names, temporal references, and official titles). It has developed into a multi-faceted tool that allows users to access a range of online reference tools while reading texts in classical Chinese, and/or to tag and extract any kind of information of interest to them. In addition to names already present in China Biographical Databate and China Historical GIS, users can tag words or expressions by uploading their own lists or by using regular expressions.
Creator
MARKUS was developed as part of the project “Communication and Empire: Chinese Empires in Comparative Perspective,” funded by the European Research Council. Further development has been funded by DID, JISC and AHRC. Code licensed AGPL v3, docs and videos CC BY SA 4.0. The Korean version was developed as part of the project “Critical Approaches to New Asian Media Ecologies (CANAME),” funded by Asian Modernities and Traditions (AMT), Leiden University.
Type(s) of DH Tool or Platform
Data analysis, Annotation