A Construction Method of the Classification System Oriented to Content Analysis of Ancient Books

Abstract

[Purpose/Significance] With the deepening of digital humanistic research on ancient books, the requirement for fine-grained classification based on text content is increasing continuously, and reasonable classification has become the key to the research and effective utilization of digital ancient books.[Method/Process] The research uses the concept of faceted classification, takes the text data of ancient books and related dictionary of ancient books as the research object, and combines conceptual semantic information to organize and describe the features of the content of ancient books. [Results/Conclusions] The classification system constructed in this paper breaks through the limitation of the number, genre and type of ancient books. The research selects five dimensions of politics, economy, culture, society and military to organize and reveal the contents of ancient books in an orderly manner, which is of great value to the in-depth development and utilization of digital resources of ancient books.

Keywords

• digital humanities|digital resource of ancient book|faceted classification|information organization