20世纪以来各机构所藏中国古代舆图文献整理成就回顾

Review of the Arrangement of Chinese Old Maps

中国古代舆图是研究历史地理学、中国古代科学发展的重要参考资料,舆图的发现、整理、使用极大地推动了对中国古代地理学、测绘学、城市规划等方面的认识。回溯20世纪初以来的各机构所藏舆图整理工作,梳理和总结舆图目录编制和舆图数字化建设,发现中国古代舆图整理已经取得了一些成绩,但在舆图收集、统一分类、著录标准等方面还存在问题,未来舆图整理工作可以从考证与校勘、标准一致、细化元数据体系、与其他数据库、知识库关联方面入手。

Chinese old maps are important references for historical geography and history of science development in ancient China.The discovery,arrangement and use of Chinese old maps have greatly promoted our understanding of ancient Chinese geography,surveying and mapping,urban planning and so on.The paper reviews the arrangement works of Chinese old maps from the beginning of the 20th century to the present.The paper combs and summarizes the compilation of old map catalogues and construction of map digitization.Some achievements have been made in the map arrangement in ancient China.However,there are still some problems in determining the number of maps,formulating standards and description.The paper puts forward that the future map collation work can start from textual research,unified standards,detailed metadata system,and associate with other databases and knowledge bases.