中国古代时间本体:细化数字人文研究的时间轴向

Ancient Chinese Time Ontology:Refining the Time Dimension of Digital Humanities Research

在数字人文领域,通过语义网技术深度构建古籍知识库时,时间本体是关键应用之一。针对古代中国纪时方法繁复多变的事实,本文以“细化”为主导思想,在时间轴向上由粗至细系统梳理中国古代时间谱系,并结合历史语境和认识语境两个视角,构建了涵盖时间系统、时间表示、时间参照系、注释和转换五大主要模块的中国古代时间本体。通过案例展示、技术实现和应用探索,探索了该本体在以古籍数据库为典型代表的数字人文领域中的应用框架与场景。

In the field of digital humanities,time ontology is one of the key applications when we are building a knowledge base of ancient books in depth through the semantic web technology.In view of the fact that the ancient Chinese timing methods are complicated and changeable,this article takes“refinement”as the main idea,systematically lists the ancient Chinese time pedigree from coarse to fine in the time dimension,and combines the two perspectives of historical context and cognitive context to build the“ancient Chinese time ontology”(ACTO).ACTO covers five major modules of time system,time representation,time reference frame,annotation and transformation.Through case demonstration,technology realization and application exploration,it explores ACTO’s application framework and scene in the field of digital humanities,which is typified by the ancient books database.