The Implementation of Textual and Geographical Reading System - A Case Study of Records of the Three Kingdoms
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Chou, Hsin-Ting
Abstract
Historical documents often involve locations. With the advances in digital technology, it becomes possible to incorporate historical geographic information into historical texts to provide better visual aid of spatial information when studying these documents.
GIS (Geographic Information System) is a convenient way of achieving this effect. However, for many scholars without much knowledge in geography or computer systems, mastering GIS to achieve the desired effect may be difficult. The goal of this thesis is to build a user-friendly and intuitive GIS tool combined with texts and maps for scholars to build their own georeferenced text. We have also developed a browsing environment for the general reader to view the resulting text.
In this thesis, we use the “Records of the Three Kingdoms” as an example. Combined with a map of the Three Kingdoms era (produced by the GIS Center of the Academia Sinica), and developed with a WebGIS tool, our system allows the user to read the text and view the associated locations on the map simultaneously. Search and retrieval functions, together with some statistical analysis (such as the frequencies of person and locations in a given text), are also provided. Some simple GIS functions, such as identifying existing locations in a polygon or the order of appearances of locations, are also included.
Subjects
地理資訊系統
歷史地理資訊系統
三國志
Type
thesis
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