The Gaoqian Digital Memory Project (http://gqjy.bjjy.cn/), created by the Digital Humanities Research Center of Renmin University of China, a research center dedicated to digital humanities scholarship affiliated with our school, was nominated for the Best DH Data Visualization Award 2020.

Digital Humanities Awards is one of the most influential awards “for the recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community.” All projects competing for the awards are nominated and voted by the public, regardless of the geography, language, conference, organization, or field of humanities of the project.

The Gaoqian Digital Memory Project is built on in-depth developments of archival resources about Gaoqian, a historic village in Zhejiang Province, China. This project aims to use these materials to experiment and demonstrate best practices for the protection and dissemination of archival materials related to Chinese history and culture.