Ding Ye, Asian Studies and Linguistics Bibliographer at Lauinger Library, is part of a team that has received a grant from the Mellon Foundation Council on East Asian Libraries Innovation Grants for East Asian Librarians program.
Ye and his team have received $77,000 for their project, ‘Blogging and Microblogging: Preserving Non-Official Voices in China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign.’ The project will develop an open-source tool for harvesting Chinese-language content and will then use that tool to harvest, archive and make accessible Chinese-language social media content. They will focus on blog and micro-blog content related to the anti-corruption campaign in contemporary China for the project, with the goal that the tool developed will be used for other projects in the future. The project will last for two years.
The project team is led by Yunshan Ye, Librarian for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University and includes Jing Zhong, the China Documentation Center Librarian at the George Washington University. Their project was selected, along with one other, from a pool of nine applicants, for the importance of its focus and plans for technology development.
The Mellon Foundation Council on East Asian Libraries Innovation Grants for East Asian Librariansprogram was made possible through a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The program is managed by the Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) and administered by the Association of Asian Studies.