  This study analyzed references and source papers of the Proceedings of
2009-2012 International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities
(DADH), which was held annually in Taiwan. A total of 59 sources and 1,104
references were investigated, based on descriptive analysis and subject
analysis of library practices on cataloguing. Preliminary results showed
historical materials, events, bureaucracies, and people of Taiwan and China in
the Qing Dynasty were the major subjects in the tempo-spatial dimensions. The
subject-date figure depicted a long-low head and short-high tail curve, which
demonstrated both characteristics of research of humanities and application of
technology in digital humanities. The dates of publication of the references
spanned over 360 years, which shows a long time span in research materials. A
majority of the papers (61.41%) were single-authored, which is in line with the
common research practice in the humanities. Books published by general
publishers were the major type of references, and this was the same as that of
established humanities research. The next step of this study will focus on the
comparison of characteristics of both sources and references of international
journals with those reported in this article.
