Timeline

This chronology traces the development of BDSL’s research program since 2019 and the collaborations, events, and institutional changes that have shaped it.

2026 July HKADH joins ADHO BDSL played a central role in the Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities’s (HKADH) successful application to join the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) as its fifteenth constituent organization.
June Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities BDSL Director Javier Cha was elected inaugural Chair of HKADH.
2025 July DH2025 BDSL Director Javier Cha delivered the opening keynote at DH2025 in Lisbon.
June Digital Humanities Teacher Training Five early-career academics from HKU and Emory completed BDSL’s summer training in digital humanities research and curriculum development, designed especially for scholars with limited access to digital humanities resources.
2024 October–December CNRS–EHESS BDSL Director Javier Cha served as Visiting Professor in Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence for the AISSAI initiative at CNRS–EHESS.
2023 August Digital Korean Studies The special section of Korean Studies 47 developed from BDSL’s 2022 publication workshop appeared, including Javier Cha’s “Big Data Studies: The Humanities in Uncharted Waters”.
2022 July University of Hong Kong BDSL relocated from the College of Liberal Studies at Seoul National University to the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong.
May–June Advanced Topics in Digital Korean Studies Held in Seoul and Copenhagen, the program combined an international symposium, project incubation, and publication workshop. Seven pilot projects in digital Korean studies were developed for presentation and publication.
2021 September 2021–February 2022 Seminar on Big Data Studies Five sessions brought together research on geospatial AI, born-digital literary heritage, distributed ledgers, recordkeeping, and data-centre ecology.
January–June Big Data and the Historian’s Craft Six sessions organized with the Department of History at Lingnan University and Columbia University’s History Lab.
2020 September 2020–June 2021 Lingnan University BDSL Director Javier Cha served as Digital Historian-in-Residence at Lingnan University.
2019 Founded at Seoul National University BDSL was established in the College of Liberal Studies with a nine-year institutional commitment from Seoul National University under its Innovative and Pioneering Young Researchers Scheme. SNU’s support concluded ahead of schedule when BDSL relocated to Hong Kong in 2022.