民间历史文献数字人文图书馆构建--以徽州文书数字人文图书馆实践反思为例

The Rise of Digital Humanities and the Development of Folk Historical Literature Database:Case Study of Huizhou Documentation Database

随着"向下看"的史学路径日渐成为主流思潮,民间历史文献资源的收藏、利用与数据库开发已成为学术型图书馆的工作重点,数字人文的兴起恰好为这一工作提供了重要的系统化思路。文章对当前中国图书馆界数字人文相关会议、理论研究与实践开发进行回顾,提出对数字人文领域而言,民间历史文献资源同样具有重要的基础性地位。从中山大学图书馆徽州文书数据库的实践案例出发,从元数据方案、检索点设计和数据关联等角度,初步总结数字人文兴起的语境之下,如何利用已有的优势资源和研究传统,展开民间历史文献资源数据库的建设工作。

As the“bottom up”approach gradually becomes mainstream in historical studies,academic librarieshave been taking up the responsibility of collecting folk historical literature and developing related databases. Theconcept and experience of digital humanities also move these works forward. This article reviews conferenceproceedings,heoretical studies,and practical programs related to digital humanities in China's Mainland,andexplores the fundamental importance of folk historical literature in the area of digital humanities. Based on the casestudy of Huizhou Documentation Database of Sun Yat -sen University Libraries,the authors summarize theexperience of database building,with focus on metadata schema,search design,and data linkage.