Digital China Worldwide
Exploring RAG for Resource Recommendation
Kwok-leong Tang
Harvard University
2025-03-13
The Origin of the Digital China Worldwide
- The 2023 Tools of the Trade conference at Harvard University
- Featured over 130 innovative projects
- Many intriguing projects remained unknown to the Chinese Studies community
- Prof. Peter Bol initiated to build a directory of these projects.
Another Directory Project?
Luce/ACLS China Studies Digital Mapping Project
Turn Digital China Worldwide into a Chatbot
Retreival-Augmented Generation
Knowledge Base
Tech Stack
- GenAI Workflow:Flowise (Self-hosted)
- GenAI Model: OpenAI GPT-4o-mini through Harvard endpoints
- Resource Data Collaboration: NocoDB (Self-hosted)
- Vector Database: Qdrant (Self-hosted)
Demo of the DCW Chatbot
https://dcw.fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
Problems
- “Not smart enough”, “Does’t not respond well”
- Scraping and upsert mechanism
- Data quality (multilingual problems)
Next Steps
- Expand the knowledge base
- Please suggest more resources, expecially the projects from your institutions
- Please give us feedback
- Exploration of collaborations
Thank You Very Much!
Digital China Worldwide Exploring RAG for Resource Recommendation Kwok-leong Tang Harvard University 2025-03-13