## Mapping Chinese Antiques Around the World Maggie Li & Rosanna Zhou

## 1. Scope

**Background:** - displaced antiques 

**Background:** - displaced antiques 

**Main Focus:** - justification of cultural belonging 

## 2. Data

**Existing literature:** - e.g., "Records of Modern National Treasures Lost Overseas." 

**Digital libraries:** - e.g., ["China Art Digital Library"](https://www.eastview.com/resources/e-collections/china-art-digital-library/) 

## 3. Techniques

- natural language processing - image processing - mapping - digitization

## 4. Aims

- mapping - digital archives - NLP connecting lost antiques to historical records

## 5. Values & Ethics

- public awareness of lost antiques - reclaiming power of defining national historical relics - however, be careful of nationalism

## 6. Resources

**Required Technology:** - Cartographic representation necessary for the mapping step - AI text analyzing model trained on reading Simple and Classical Chinese is required - AI trained to take information from digital libraries (also need to unify metadata)

**Labor Force:** - Website builders required for building the digital archive - Historians to cooperate with NLP AIs

**Other:** - May need to negotiate with different museums to obtain copyright

## 7. Workplan

**Repeated Main Process:** - 1-find all Chinese antiques collections from worldwide museums (automized) - 2-mark them in a world map - 3-construct a digital archive of the antiques found and unify the metadata - 4-search for the earliest records of each antique in Chinese history using NLP trained based on Classical Chinese

**Possible Further Steps:** - obtain 3D-printed models of antiques unavailable domestically - better visualization of the digital archive utilizing image clustering (or train AI to identify antique's dynasty..?)

## Team Contribution: - Zhifei (Maggie) Li-part 5 to 7, slide text - Xiaoyan (Rosanna) Zhou-part 1 to 4, slide images