Publications

The following is a list of publications associated with research conducted at the Big Data Studies Lab. Publications marked as “forthcoming” have either received editorial approval (in the case of journal special issues and sections) or have been accepted for publication following external peer review.

Journal Special Issues

Cha, Javier. [forthcoming in 2026]. Artificial Intelligence and Korean History, special issue of International Journal of Korean History 30, no. 4.

Cha, Javier and Miguel Escobar Varela. [forthcoming in 2025]. Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Humanities, special issue of International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 18.2.

Cha, Javier and Barbara Wall, eds. 2023. Digital Korean Studies, special issue of Korean Studies, 47: 1-311. https://doi.org/10.1353/ks.2023.a908614.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Risam, Roopika and Javier Cha. [forthcoming in 2026]. “The Forking Paths of Digital Humanities in Asian Studies.” Journal of Asian Studies 83.4. (Accepted.)

Cha, Javier and Ian M. Miller. [forthcoming in 2025]. “Digital Humanities and the Energetics of Big Data.” Debates in the Digital Humanities, edited by Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (Accepted.)

Cha, Javier. [forthcoming in 2025]. “Fine-Tuning the Historian’s Macroscope: Data Reuse and Medieval Korean Biographical Data in Neo4j.” Journal of Cultural Analytics.

Cha, Javier. 2023. “Big Data Studies: The Humanities in Uncharted Waters.” Korean Studies 47: 274-299. https://doi.org/10.1353/ks.2023.a908625. (Updated and substantially revised article in English of Cha, Javier. 2020. “Pik teit’ŏ wa inmunhak ŭi mirae 빅데이터와 인문학의 미래 [Big data and the future of the humanities].” Munmyŏng kwa kyŏnggye [Civilization and frontier] 3: 43-77. https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/articleDetail?nodeId=NODE10507024.)

Na, Robin Wooyeong and Javier Cha. 2021. “Snakes or Ladders? Measuring the Intergenerational Performance of Chosŏn’s Munkwa Exam Candidates.” International Journal of Korean History 26, no. 1: 145-176. https://doi.org/10.22372/ijkh.2021.26.1.145.

Cha, Javier. 2018. “Digital Korean Studies: Recent Advances and New Frontiers.” Digital Library Perspectives 34, no. 3: 227-244. https://doi.org/10.1108/dlp-04-2018-0013.
(Chinese translation: Cha, Javier. 2021. “Shuzi Han’guoxue yanjiu: xin jinzhan yu xin qianyan 数字韩国学研究：新进展与新前沿.” Translated by Liu Feiying and proofread by Ren Zhijun. Shuzi renwen 数字人文 5. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/GsdiYYgWirlom7MKC9LBgw.)

Cha, Javier. 2015. “Digital / Humanities: New Media and Old Ways in South Korea.” Asiascape: Digital Asia 2, no. 1-2: 126-147. http://doi.org/10.1163/22142312-12340022.