文本标记与数位阅读──从“疾病感觉地图”“叶德辉藏书阁”与“游方”谈起

Text Labeling and Digital Reading:A Discussion Starting with Three Projects“Mapping the Structure of Feeling about Illnesses,”“Ye Dehui’s Book Collections:A Knowledge Map of the Late Qing Early Republic Chinese Intellectuals,”and“Religious Itinerancy”

文章主旨是分享中国台湾“中研院”中国文哲研究所刘苑如研究员及其研究团队自2009年开始,逐步涉入数位人文学研究的历程与思考。14年间,团队历经“戴祚《西征记》之辑佚、考证与GIS地图研究”“疾病感觉地图:魏晋南北朝笔记小说的疾病书写与GIS资料库”“叶德辉印刻书流通与人物往来的数位研究”“游方:历代僧传僧人出行叙述之自动标记与事件撷取技术暨时空资讯加值运用”“病苦与死惧:历代僧传疾病叙述的数位人文研究”“魏晋南北朝周边意象之数位人文研究”等多个重点研究项目,累积了各种数位工具的使用经验,同时也开发至少四个学术网站,公开分享研究成果。文章也反省并总结了以文本标记和数位阅读作为研究方法,如何运用于数位人文研究当中,以及必须注意的操作原则。

This article aims to share the process and thoughts of Dr.Yuanju Liu(Research Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy,“Academia Sinica”, Taiwan)and her research team’s gradually getting involved in the study of digital humanities since 2009.In the past fourteen years, they conducted a number of key research projects such as “Compiling, Criticism and GIS Map for Dai Zuo’s Journal of the Campaign to the West”,“Mapping the Structure of Feeling about Illnesses;Illness Wring of the Anecdotes during the Wei, Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties and GIS Databases”,“Digital Research to the Circulation of Ye Dehui’s Block Printing and of His Personal Networks”,“To Wander in the World;Travel Narratives in Buddhist Monk Biographies in Diachronic Perspective Studied with Automatic Labeling, Event Extraction, and Quantification of Time and Space”,“The Worlds of Doctrine and Emotion in Chinese Buddhist Illness Narratives;Digital Humanities Research on Eminent Buddhist Monk Biographies”,and “Digital Research on the Image of the Periphery during the Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties”.Dr.Yuanju Liu and her research team accumulated experience using various digital tools while establishing at least four academic websites to share their research with the public.This article reflects and summarizes how to use text labeling and digital reading as research methods in digital humanities research, and the operating principles that must be paid attention to.