Conversations across Time and Space: Constructing Memory Chains of Calligraphies and Paintings on the Basis of IIIF-IIP Platform

Abstract

[Objectives/Significances] Recently, Chinese colleges and research institutes have begun to use international image interactive framework to present Chinese calligraphies and paintings. But few knowledge discoveries are based on the historic inscriptions and colophons of Chinese calligraphies and paintings, also known as Tibas. Analyzing the historical trace of continuous inheritance via Tibas, we can not only browse China's history of calligraphies and paintings, but also delve into the individual cases, which are of significance of promotion of traditional research. [Methodology/Procedures] This paper proposes a memory chain model of calligraphies and paintings with the combination of IIIF-Immersing Interaction Platform (IIIF-IIP). We leverage the Tibas' annotations, seals, and historic figures, as well as external linked data repositories, in order to visualize the latent associations of calligraphies and paintings and analyze the important figures, network assortativity and contents of Tibas. [Results/Conclusions] The experimental results show the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed models, which can not only lay a foundation of the further research into Chinese calligraphies and paintings with more data, but also provide new clues and views in the related studies.

Keywords

• iiif-iip|historic calligraphy and painting|memory chains of calligraphy and painting|personal relations|knowledge discovery|digital humanities