On the Design and Implementation of a Faceted Retrieval System for the Taiwan Judicial Court Archives from 1895 to1945
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Hsiao, I-Ling
Abstract
In 2000, the Taiwan High Court and Professor Tay-Sheng Wang of the Department of Law of the National Taiwan University re-discovered the archive of judicial court records of the judicial courts of Taipei, Taichung, Jiayi and Hsinchu during the Japanese colonial occupation of Taiwan from 1895 to 1945. Digitization of the findings was carried out under the direction of Professor Wang with help from the National Taiwan University Library. After several years of work, the digitization effort is now near its completion. This thesis describes the design and implementation of the TCCRA, the Taiwan Colonial Court Record Archives. The court cases, 5640 volumes in total, gave a vivid account of the economic, cultural, and societal evolution of Taiwan during the Japanese colonization. It is not only invaluable for anyone interested in the development of Taiwan, but also for researchers of Japanese colonial laws. The digitization effort includes producing all the images (through digital camera) and metadata of each court case. Because of the sheer volume of the data, it is important to design a system that allows the users not only find what they want but also helps them discover the meaning and conduct further exploration. We start by utilizing an "Attributive tag" data format to integrate the metadata and to provide the backbone of faceted browsing of query results. A sophisticated yet easy to use query interface is then designed to guide the user to refine queries and to classify query results in different ways. Our faceted retrieval system has two main additional features: query term suggestion and combination, and query adjustment and document selection. Our features enable the user to analyze query results as a collection and refine them easily.
Subjects
Taiwan Judicial Court Archives
Database
Faceted Browsing
Query Set Control
Type
thesis
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