Various incidents that caused an uproar in society, such as the emergence of AlphaGo in 2016 and the COVID-19 pandemic that has persisted since 2020, accelerated the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and these waves of change produced great impacts on the...
Various incidents that caused an uproar in society, such as the emergence of AlphaGo in 2016 and the COVID-19 pandemic that has persisted since 2020, accelerated the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and these waves of change produced great impacts on the humanities. Such changes serve to redefine the role of humanities researchers. The expansion of research areas beyond the humanities to engineering has brought about many different possibilities. However, such an expansion in the absence of sufficient preparations has caused unexpected problems. Humanities researchers sometimes experience difficulties in communication due to their limitations in engineering knowledge, and in some projects, they are tasked with performing simple and mindless duties rather than playing a central role. Most of the difficulties that humanists have in relation to digital technologies are represented as common problems for researchers. Accordingly, in order to address such problems, more systematic solutions should be found at the organizational level rather than at the individual level. In this context, to find a path forward, this paper aims to examine cases on display in Taiwan, which has already implemented digital policies for humanists (“digital humanities” policy), one step ahead of Korea.
This paper largely deals with educational policies related to digital humanities in Taiwan and Korea. For Taiwan, the “Digital Humanities Promotion” policy, implemented by the Ministry of Science and Technology from 2013, and the “Plan for Fostering Innovative Talents in the Digital Humanities,” from 2018, were mainly analyzed. These two digital humanities policies are organically connected based on education, and they are characterized by creating educational curricula based on existing domestic and foreign digital archives and research results, along with the three elements that form a virtuous cycle: research, development of tools, and education. In addition, they place great emphasis on sharing educational resources, collaboration, and networking.
Korea also has high-quality data resources that have been built up over the years in this field. An in-depth discussion is needed in order to form and spread the educational curricula suitable for Korean literature in Chinese(漢文學) based on such resources. Thus, it is hoped that Chinese literature will continue to create research achievements suitable for the digital age while retaining its own unique meaning, and that it will establish itself as a distinctive field of digital humanities.