デジタル漢籍の新しいテキストモデル

Abstract

In this article, a new model for digitizing premodern Chinese text is proposed. The main purpose of this model is to allow a better representation of texts that differ orthographically from what can be represented with the character sets available in modern computers. Instead of relying purely on character encoding to transport the content of the document, in the proposed model a second layer, consisting of the position of a character in the document is added as additional reference system. This allows provisional encoding with subsequential updating of the document characters without loosing a reference in case the document is updated. Another property of this model is a character database layer, which is connected to the text. Relations between characters are maintained here and allow the establishment of semantical networks of character representations. An implementation of this model has been realized as a Web application for the Daozang jiyao project.