Data set Procedural Challenges

For the article "Procedural Challenges: A case study in sharing PRC electronic resources" (submitted to the International Journal of Digital Humanities", special issue "Digital Humanities in East Asian Studies", editors Hilde De Weerdt and Aliz Horvath) we conduct a literature review of research into Republican Chinese newspapers as it appears in popular Chinese academic journal databases and their accompanying data publications. In essence, we repeatedly run identical keyword searches using different interfaces and compare results. We first gather materials in the form of saved html files and screenshots which are then prepared for further analysis.

The data set contains the source files that support the findings of our study, along with descriptive metadata and additional sources not used in the final article version. All data is collected on Windows 10 Enterprise Edition, using Firefox Browser 88.0.1, and cross-checked with both Google Chrome 90.0.4430.212 and Microsoft Edge 90.0.818.62.