MARKUS was developed as part of the project “Communication and Empire: Chinese Empires in Comparative Perspective,” funded by the European Research Council. Further development has been funded by DID, JISC and AHRC. Code licensed AGPL v3, docs and videos CC BY SA 4.0. The Korean version was developed as part of the project "Critical Approaches to New Asian Media Ecologies (CANAME),” funded by Asian Modernities and Traditions (AMT), Leiden University.