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Devin Higgins

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Head of Digital Development and Strategies
Librarian II - Continuing
Digital Development and Strategies

Pronouns: he / they

emailhiggi135@msu.edu

phone_iphone517-884-4665

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MSU Main Library
366 W. Circle Dr.
Mailstop 13
East Lansing, MI 48824-3700

Subjects

  • Text Mining
  • Digital Humanities
  • Python Programming
  • Metadata

Publications

  • Catherine Ryu, Benjamin Furman, Devin Higgins. (2021-10-01). A Tone Perfect Story: How to Develop an Open Access Mandarin Chinese Audio Database as a Collaborative Digital Humanities Project. Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities, 2, (1), https://doi.org/10.21428/f1f23564.bfd58d68
    Tone Perfect, a Mandarin Chinese (MC) audio database developed by an interdisciplinary team at Michigan State University (MSU), was launched in August 2017 as a digital collection and open access dataset to support teaching and research that pertain to MC. This article provides an overview of how the research team, the audio production team, and the digital repository team collaborated to build the database (tone.lib.msu.edu/), which includes an exhaustive catalogue of monosyllabic sounds in MC (410 in total) in four tones (410 x 4 = 1,640) pronounced by six native MC speakers.