About
The Text Works
The Workbench for Asian Digital History
Combining philological rigor with data science efficiency. Providing tools for normalization, collation, and visualization of historical sources from the modern transition period.
Research Interests
- East Asian Historical Document Studies
- Digitization and Text Processing of Historical Documents
- Digital Humanities Tool Development
Tools
The tools on this site are designed to automate repetitive tasks in classical textual research.
- Era Calculator - Convert era names and sexagenary cycle to CE
- Normalization - Check Unicode and NFC normalization
- Variant Converter - Unify variant characters to standard forms
- Old Hangul Converter - Convert Old Korean PUA to Conjoining Jamo
- Text Comparator - Character-level comparison of two texts
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Cite This Site
Kim, S. Y. (2026). The Text Works: The Workbench for Asian Digital History. Retrieved from [URL]
Contact
Developer & Researcher
KIM, Sun-young
Ph.D.
Field
Modern Korean History / Digital Humanities
Researching methodologies to extract data value from historical texts and implement scholarly rigor through digital technology.
Research Interests
- Digital Philology & Textual Criticism
- Historical Data Modeling (Ontology)
- Modern Korean History (19th–20th Century)