Contemporary Chinese Village Gazetteer Data database

Context

Contemporary Chinese Village Gazetteer Data (CCVG Data, 数字村庄) is a project initiated by the University Library System to collect data from village gazetteers and present it in open-access datasets, supporting teaching and research on Chinese village history and development.

Purpose

This project reorganizes that raw data into a relational database and a web-based presentation of the data.

Project folders Overview

• UX_Nuoqi: Contains an AXURE RP prototyping file and HTML representation of the proposed web UI.
• day10_bootstrap : Contains an early prototype for the UI presentation.
• process_data: Contains early Jupyter notebooks for building the database.
• some codes to build database: Contains early SQLs used to restructure the database.
• pythonScript: Contains python scripts that will load the recorded 18 csv file into existing MySQL database. For details please read the README file inside pythonScript folder

Authorship and License

This is a work of the University of Pittsburgh.

Student work supervised by Daqing He, in collaboration with the Pitt ULS:

• Qi Xin
• Nuoqi Zeng
• Nianyun Qi

Original work in this repo is licensed under the MIT-license. Included works retain their respective licenses.