基于GIS的家谱资源整合集成研究

GIS-BASED FAMILY TREE RESOURCES INTEGRATION

我国家谱源远流长、内容丰富、数量巨大,一直是众多领域学者关注的焦点。但是,家谱研究始终处于初级阶段,家谱的价值尚未得到充分利用。其根本原因在于家谱资源分布广泛、共享困难、研究方法和手段单一。各方通力合作,利用高新技术整合现有家谱资源,建立中华家谱总数据库和总平台已迫在眉睫。本文针对家谱典型的时空特性,提出采用GIS技术整合集成海量家谱资源,并进一步探讨了家谱资源整合集成的若干关键问题,设计了家谱资源整合集成的基本原则和平台框架,为家谱研究提供了新的思路、方法和技术。

In recent years, GIS has been extensively and intensively used in the fields of humanities and social sciences such as history, linguistics, economics and criminology. Family tree, which contains a large number of historical, geographical, cultural and other aspects of information, is one of the important elements of Chi- nese history.However, the value of family tree is not adequately used and studies on family tree are still at ini- tial stage. The fundamental reasons for these problems are： 1） family tree resources are widely distributed and hard to share; 2） research methods and means are single. Therefore, it demands full cooperation from all par- ties and making use of advanced technology to construct the Chinese Family Tree Database and Platform to protect and use family tree. Firstly, this paper illuminates the history of family tree development and analyzes Chinese family tree resources. It points out that spatial-temporal information is the essence of family tree in- formation and digitization, spatialization, standardization and networking is the development trend of family tree. Then, it discusses the key issues of family tree resources integration such as consistently spatial-temporal datum and framework, data model, information sharing, system interoperability and data collecting mode. Fi- nally, it gives four important principles to guide family tree resources integration and designs a platform called ZHJP based on SOA. The platform integrates not only websites but also stand-alone systems of family tree. Different systems interchange and share information through a standard format. The platform consists of three layers in implementation： data layer, service layer and application layer. It is community-based, open and multi-level that everyone could access websites in different levels and web services. In this paper, a series of new ideas, methods and techniques to the research of family tree have been brought forward. It facilitates mining and resolving relevant problems in humanities and social sciences, and further promotes the develop- ment of society, economy, politics and culture of China.