Introducing STENO and hkmaps.hk: Towards a Geospatial Archive
You are cordially invited to attend an upcoming Zoom webinar, “Introducing STENO and hkmaps.hk: Towards a Geospatial Archive ,” co-organized by the Hong Kong Library Association and Hong Kong Baptist University.
Speaker: Prof. Kwong Chi Man (Professor, Chair, Department of History; Associate Director, Academy of Chinese, History, Religion, and Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Date: 24 November 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Venue: Online via Zoom
Language: English
In this presentation, the speaker introduces STENO and hkmaps.hk, the two digital tools created by the Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University. STENO is a new generation of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) platform designed by humanities scholars to tackle various historical sources into more usable data for research, education, and curation. hkmaps.hk, a historical spatial data platform of Hong Kong, is now able to host and visualise various historical data that allows further integration with archival catalogues that has a strong spatial element. Together, these tools allow the research team to create a geospatial archive for Hong Kong that has the potential to transform how historical data is being stored, organized, retrieved, and understood.
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About the Speaker:
Professor Kwong Chi Man is the Chair of Department of History, and the Associate Director of Academy of Chinese, History, Religion, and Philosophy (CHRP), Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Hong Kong Baptist University. He was born and raised in Hong Kong and had completed his doctorate degree in Cambridge, United Kingdom. His research interest lies in military history in East Asia.
Professor Kwong is the author of a number of books, including Hongkongers in the British Armed Forces, 1860-1997 (2022, OUP), War and Geopolitics in Interwar Manchuria (2017, Brill), Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970 (2015, HKUP, co-authored). His works can also be found in Modern Asian Studies, Journal of Military History, Journal of Chinese Military History, and War and Society. His recent projects include an interactive map about the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941, which can be found at: https://digital.lib.hkbu.edu.hk/1941hkbattle/en/index.php
Sources: https://histweb.hkbu.edu.hk/about-us/people/prof-kwong-chi-man.html & https://scholars.hkbu.edu.hk/en/persons/CMKWONG/