Christian Wittern: Curriculum Vitae

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1 Christian Wittern: Curriculum Vitae 1. Contact information 1.1. Office Kyoto University Institute for Research in Humanities Kyoto-shi, Sakyo-ku Kitashirakawa, Higashiogura-cho 47 Phone: Fax: Home Kyoto-fu, Kyotanabe-shi Miyamaki, Nanasegawa 3-59 Phone/Fax: Education 1996 Göttingen University Ph.D., Department of Chinese Studies. Major: Chinese Studies, Minors: Philosophy and German literature Research fellow at the University of Kyoto, Institute of Buddhist Studies; the first two years with a grant from DAAD (German academic exchange service) and the Japanese Ministry of Education Continuation of the studies in Hamburg, M. A. in February of Study of Chinese Language and Philosophy at the University of Hangzhou (Peoples Republic of China) with a grant from the DAAD Study of Sinology, Philosophy and German literature at Hamburg University Study of Philosophy and German literature at Tübingen. University Secondary education at Kepler-Gymnasium in Tübingen, 'Abitur' June 2nd, Working experience April present Associate Professor at the Documentation and Information Center for Chinese Studies, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University March 2001 Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei March 2001 Associate Researcher with the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies, Taipei. Adviser to the Buddhist Studies Information Network Center and the Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association. On leave of absence July June Feb-Mar Visiting researcher at Academica Sinica, Taipei, invited by Prof. Hsieh Ching- Chun.

2 University of Göttingen Research consultant with the "Chinese Scientific Terminology" project Designed and maintained electronic database of Chinese-English scientific terminology on in house workstations and on the Internet Member of the 'Zen KnowledgeBase' project at the International Research Institute for Zen-Buddhism, Hanazono University, Kyoto. Responsibilities included supervision of the keyboarding team in Shanghai, China; several seminars held in Shanghai. Main collaborator of the 'ZenBase CD1', released in June Development of the IRIZ KanjiBase, a new approach to encode rare Chinese characters. Development of markupstrategies for Chinese Buddhist texts Assistant instructor (part-time) at Hamburg University, specialty 'Information processing in Sinology' Technical adviser and senior clerk with Plustek Electronics GmbH, Hamburg Social service in a home for the aged in Tubingen. 4. Courses taught Electronic Resources for Zen Studies (Spring 1998) Buddhist and Western views on education (Fall 1998) Research methodology in Buddhist Studies (Spring 1999) Buddhist Informatics I, II ( ) Digital Archiving (Spring 2005) 5. Languages Near native fluency in written and spoken Chinese, Japanese, English, German; working knowledge of Latin and classical Greek, French and Spanish. 6. Professional acitivities Membership in learned societies Association for Computing in the Humanities (ACH) since 1997 International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS) since 1999 Society for Research on the History of Buddhism since 2001 Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) since 2001 Committee work Regional coordinator for Europe of the Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative present Technical Consultant, Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA) Chair, TEI working group on character encoding 2001-present Member, TEI Technical Council 2003-present Chair, TEI Technical Council 2005-present Member, Program committee for ACH/ALLC conference Digital Humanities Current research projects A Knowledgebase for Buddhist Studies. Ressources for Research on Tang Civilization

3 System for Markup And retrieval of Texts (SMART): Development of a workbench for computerized research in Buddhist studies: Methods for computerbased research on premodern Chinese texts. More information at Creating the image of the own tradition: Compilation of genealogical chronicles in the Chan- School from late Tang to Song dynasties. Early colloquial Chinese, with special reference to the recorded sayings of the Chan-School of Chinese Buddhism. Textual history of the Chinese Buddhist Canon. Lexikographical Database of Chinese Characters. 8. Publications 8.1. Monographs 1. Annäherungen an Wang Fanzhi ( ), Hamburg1990, (unpublished M.A. thesis). 2. Das 'Yulu' des Chan-Buddhismus. Die Entwicklung vom Jahrhundert am Beispiel des 28. Kapitels des Jingde chuandenglu (1004), (Schweizerische Asiatische Studien, Monographien Bd.31) Peter Lang, Bern etc Book chapters 1. Writing Systems and Character Representation, in: Electronic Textual Editing, edited by Lou Burnard, Katherine O'Brien O'Keffe and John Unsworth, New York2006, p Translations 1. Chinesische und manjurische Handchriften und seltene Drucke Teil 3. Chinesische Texte vermischten Inhalts aus der Berliner Turfansammlung. Beschrieben von Tsuneki Nishiwaki. Übersetzt von Christian Wittern. Herausgegeben von Simone-Christiane Raschmann. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, Zen. Erwachen zum Wahren Selbst von Sekkei Harada. Übersetzt von Christian Wittern. Heidelberg/Leimen, Werner Kristkeitz Verlag, Journal articles 1. PC's im Land der aufgehenden Sonne, in: Chinesisch und Computer, Nr.8, January 1993, p Chinese Character Encoding, in: The Electronic Bodhidharma, Nr. 3, July 1993, p Code und Struktur: Einige vorläufige Überlegungen zum Aufbau chinesischer Volltextdatenbanken, in: Chinesisch und Computer, Nr.9, January 1994, p The EBTI Haiensa meeting, in: The Electronic Bodhidharma, Nr. 4, June 1995, p Markup at the input level, in: The Electronic Bodhidharma, Nr. 4, June 1995, p Windows and the world, in: The Electronic Bodhidharma, Nr. 4, June 1995, p The IRIZ KanjiBase, in: The Electronic Bodhidharma, Nr. 4, June 1995, p Chinese character codes: an update, in: The Electronic Bodhidharma, Nr. 4, June 1995, p A New Strategy for Dealing with Missing Chinese Characters, in: Humanities and Information Processing No. 10, Februar 1996, p (with Urs App, in Japanese). 10. Introduction to KanjiBase. A practical approach to the encoding of variant and rare characters in premodern Chinese texts, in: Chinesisch und Computer, Nr. 10, Dezember 1997, p

4 11. Unicode rückt naher. Auf dem Weg zur praktischen Arbeit mit der universellen Kodierung, in: Chinesisch und Computer, Nr. 10, Dezember 1997, p The Issue of Rare Characters: Coding, Input and Output, presentation given at the 5th PNC meeting, May 16th 1998 in Taipei, Taiwan; published in: Annual meeting of Pacific Neighbourhood Consortium May 15-18, Proceedings, p [Digitization of the Chinese Buddhist Canon], in: [Information Management for Buddhist Libraries] Vol. 15, 1998, p (in Chinese). 14. Buddhist Studies in the Digital Age in: [Chung-Hwa Journal of Buddhist Studies], Vol. 13.2, 2000, p Thirty Blows if You Succeed, Thirty Blows if You Fail, in: Annual Report of the Institute for Zen Studies, No. XXV, 2000, p Non-system characters in XML documents, in: [Seminar Series of the National Documentation and Information Centers in Humanities] No. 10, 2000, p Editing XML, in: [Information Management for Buddhist Libraries] Vol. 24, 2001, p (with Hui-min Bhikkhu, Aming Tu, Lijuan Guo, Ray Chou) [Chung-Hwa Journal of Buddhist Studies], Vol. 14, 2001, p , in: No. 3, 2001, p Some thoughts on the digitization of Kanji, in: [Seminar Series of the National Documentation and Information Centers in Humanities] No. 11, 2001, p Charting of Unknown Territory: Application of Topic Maps to Chan-Buddhist Chronicles, in: Journal of Electronic Buddhist Texts, Volume 3, December 2001, p Style and Fashion in Early Song Chan Yulu, in: Facets of Tibetan Religious Tradition and Contacts with Neighbouring Cultural Areas, edited by Alfredo Cadonna and Ester Bianchi, Venice 2002, p ( ), 189, p ( ), 190, p Embedding Glyph Identifiers in XML Documents, 4, p ( ), p ( ), 191, p TEI 2, p.7 29.,, p ( ), 192, p (ed.) ( 32., 5, p The Chan School as Seen through the Tang Knowledgebase,, p , 34. From Text to Information -- Small Steps towards a Knowledgebase of Tang Civilization,, p.38-47, 35. The Text in the Age of Digital Reproduction, The Role of Buddhism in the 21st Century. Proceedings of the Fourth Chung-Hwa International Conference on Buddhism, p , Ressources for Research on Tang Civilization, in: An Odd Basket of ODDs, Digital Humanities 2006, Association for Digital Humanities Organization, Centre de Recherche Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l'information, Paris Sorbonne, ,2006

5 37., in: 1, , CH-74, 2007, Entrance Through the Scriptures: Catalogues and Electronic Text as a New Gate to the Buddhist Tradition in: [Chung-Hwa Journal of Buddhist Studies], Vol. 20, 2007, p Digital Text, Meaning and the World : Preliminary considerations for a Knowledgebase of Oriental Studies, in: Ritual and Punishment in East Asia, 2007, p Conference presentations 1. The Chinese Character Encoding Framework (CEF): Encoding all Chinese Characters, talk at the 2nd Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative (EBTI) meeting Oct. 1st, 1994 in Haiensa, Korea and Oct. 2nd 1994 in Seoul, Korea. 2. Minimal Markup and More - Some Requirements for Public Texts, talk at the 3rd EBTI meeting April, 7th, 1996 in Taipei, Taiwan. 3. Taming the masses. A practical approach to the encoding of variant and rare characters in premodern Chinese texts., talk held on March 7th, 1997 at the Institute for Information Science of Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. 4. Beyond paper and printing, talk held on July 9th, 1997 at the 35. International Congress of Asian and North African Studies (ICANAS) in Budapest, Hungary. 5. Unicode rückt naher - Erste Eindrücke der praktischen Arbeit mit der universellen Kodierung, talk held on July 18th, 1997 at the 4th Conference of East-Asian Librarians in Tübingen, Germany. 6. SMART project and the WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist Texts, talk at the 4th EBTI meeting on October 23rd, 1997 in Kyoto, Japan. 7. Use of Rare Characters in Networked Environments, presentation given at the 8th meeting of the Documentation Centers in Japan September 18th, 1998 in Tokyo, Japan. (in Japanese) 8. Knots in the Net - Steps to Standardization of Electronic Buddhist Texts, talk held at the 5th EBTI meeting on January 20th, 1999 in Taipei, Taiwan. 9. Die Digitalisierung der buddhistischen Schriften - Bestandsaufnahme und Ausblick, talk held at the Sinological Department of the University of Tubingen, Germany on May 20th, TEI (SGML/XML) for Chinese Documents - a preliminary report, talk held at the Seminar 'On problems representing characters in premodern Chinese electronic documents' at the Institute for History and Phonology, Academia Sinica on June 16th, 1999 in Taipei, Taiwan. (in Chinese) 11. Buddhist Texts, Markup and Linguistic Research, talk held at the 'Conference on Linguistic Studies in Chinese Buddhist texts' at Chongcheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan on October 19th, (in Chinese) 12. System for Markup And Retrieval of Texts (SMART): An Update, talk held at the 6th EBTI meeting on January 15th, 2000 at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. 13. Toward a Web-based Scholar's Workbench, conference paper at the Third Conference on Sinology, Taipei, June 30th, SMART project: Methods for computer-based research of premodern Chinese texts, conference paper at the ALLC/ACH annual conference in Glasgow, U.K, July Research Methods and Digital Resources in Buddhist Studies, presented at the International Conference on Buddhism and the 21st Century Digital Information Society, Research Institute of the Tripitaka Koreana, Seoul, Korea, December 7-9, A Study on Creation and Application of Electronic Chinese Buddhist Texts: With the Yogacarabhumi as a Case Study, with Ven. Huimin Bhikkhu, Aming Tu, Lijuan Guo, and Ray Chou, 2001 EBTI International Conference, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, May 25th, CBETA Taisho Electronic Tripitaka, with Ven. Huimin Bhikkhu and Aming Tu, 2001 EBTI International Conference, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, May 25th, 2001.

6 18. Charting of Unknown Territory: Application of Topic Maps to Chan-Buddhist Chronicles, 2001 EBTI International Conference, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, May 26th, A Project for Dealing with the Missing Character Problem, with C.C. Hsieh and John Lehman, 2001 EBTI International Conference, Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, May 26th, TEI and Topic Maps, ACH/ALLC Joint Conference, New York University, June 16th, Digital Resources in Buddhist Studies, Symposium of the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies to Commemorate its 50th Anniversary, Tokyo, July 1st, TEI meets Unicode, at the First TEI Members meeting in Pisa, Novmber 17, Encoding of glyph variants -- some preliminary experiments ALLC/ACH Joint Conference, Tübingen University, July 25th, Unicode and beyond: encoding of rare and variant characters. A progress report from the TEI Character Encoding working group, presented at the PNC Annual Conference and Joint Meetings 2002 at Osaka City University, September 21st, Mulitple encodings in Unicode: Topic maps to the rescue, presented at the PNC Annual Conference and Joint Meetings 2002 at Osaka City University, September 22nd, New developments in the WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist texts, presented at the Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, December 12th, The CBETA Electronic Tripitaka: Text in a new context, presented at the symposium Chinese Stone inscriptions for Eternity, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, July 12-14, From Text to Information -- Small Steps towards a Knowledgebase of Tang Civilization, presented at the Symposium New developments in East Asian text processing, China National Library. Beijing, Jan. 22, From Text to Topics - Zigzagging Towards the Knowledgebase of Tang Civilization, presented at ACH/ALLC 2005, Victoria University, June 16, Reviews 1. Electronic Book Version des New Japanese English Character Dictionary, in: Chinesisch und Computer, No. 10, Dezember 1997, p Thomas Zimmer. Baihua: Zum Problem der Verschriftung gesprochener Spache im Chinesischen; Dargestellt anhand morphologischer Merkmale in den bianwen aus Dunhuang. Monumenta Serica Monograph Series XL, Institut Monumenta Serica, Sankt Augustin. - Nettetal: Steyler Verlag xiv, 287 pp. Paperback ISBN , in China review international, Spring Articles published on the Internet 1. Kanjibase for Windows, in: ZenBase CD1, Kyoto, June 1995, /IRIZHTML/KANJIBAS/ and Mai IRIZ Kanjibase, in: ZenBase CD1, Kyoto, June 1995, /IRIZHTML/KANJIBAS/ and Mai Review of the Tripitaka Koreana CD-ROM, A case study: Comparing the Korean and the Taisho version of the Zongjing lu, WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist texts, , updated KanjiBase on the Web, Programs and machine-readable data

7 1. Four Corner Input for ETEN Chinese System, in: ftp://ifcss.org/software/dos/input and Bremer Software-Service, Marz TRANSFER - Umwandlungsprogramm von Big-5 zum japanischen JIS-Code, Bremer Software-Service, Concordance Creating Program, International Research Institute for Zen-Buddhism, Hanazono University, Kyoto, Unicode Hancharacter Properties Database, in:ftp://ifcss.org/software/data/unicode-hanchar, July ccbm: Tool for handling the CCCII *.img files on NCTUCCCA, in: ftp://ifcss.org/software/dos/chinese-utils, September Cangjie Table:Table of all cangjie input keys, with radical / stroke and BIG5 code, in: ftp://ifcss.org/software/data, November Electronic tools for Zen research, in: ZenBase CD1, Kyoto, June IRIZ KanjiBase for Windows, in: ZenBase CD1, Kyoto, June Electronic text tools: IRIZ concordance maker, IRIZ kanji code conversion tools, IRIZ kanji normalization tool, IRIZ electronic text format conversion tool, IRIZ KanjiBase tools for Windows, IRIZ KanjiBase tools for Macintosh, IRIZ text statistic tools, in: ZenBase CD1, Kyoto, June CEFDB: a database of Chinese Character properties, in: ZenBase CD1, Kyoto, June 1995.