Xinhuanet, Beijing, February 28th: ??The online version of the large-scale full-text database of Chinese ancient books "Chinese Classics" was officially launched. Tang Yijie, Le Daiyun, Pang Pu, Cao Xianzhuo, Fan Zeng, Fu Xuancong, Liu Mengxi, Zhang Yanjin and other experts and scholars from all walks of life and nearly 200 people from universities and research institutions across the country attended the results exhibition held in Beijing yesterday.
With the rapid development of China's economy in recent years, Chinese culture is also spreading rapidly around the world and exerting an increasing influence. How to make the vast Chinese ancient books and documents take the express train of modern technology and go to the world through the Internet is the original intention of the developers of this system. Beijing Guoxue Times Culture Communication Co., Ltd. relied on Capital Normal University to organize a group of domestic literary and historical experts. After six years of data collection and electronic collation, it finally achieved a major breakthrough in ancient book online database retrieval in January this year and completed the "Guoxue Collection" 》Online retrieval system, namely the online version of "Classic of Chinese Studies" ().
The system adopts the internationally accepted Unicode Chinese character encoding, has a large font capacity and strong scalability, and can correctly display Chinese characters on all web browsers around the world. The online version of "Chinese Classics" has three major characteristics: large, fast and powerful:
First, it is large in scale. *** has collected more than 3,800 ancient books with a total word count of more than 800 million words. The types and total words of the collected books exceed those of "Sikuquanshu". Most of the popular novels and operas were not included in "Sikuquanshu". Moreover, the contents of these documents are commonly used materials by researchers in literature and history, and are of great practical value. The database continues to expand at a rate of 200 to 300 million words per year.
The second is fast speed. The online version of "Chinese Classics" uses the most advanced search engine technology, and the retrieval speed is extremely fast. If you search for any word (word) in any range from the ancient book database with 800 million words and nearly 100,000 volumes, you can get it within one second. As a result, thousands of people can search online at the same time. Even if you continue to add data in the future, its retrieval speed will not decrease.
The third is strong functionality. Not only words and sentences can be searched in the database, but also multiple conditions can be combined to search. The search results can be saved directly. The search range can be set by the user. It can be all more than 3,000 kinds of books, or classics, history, classics, etc. A certain major category of collection can also be specific topics such as the Thirteen Classics, the Twenty-Four Histories, the Sixty Kinds of Songs, etc., and you can even specify a certain volume to search for. In addition, various functions such as ancient Chinese dictionary, full volume viewing, content summary, traditional and simplified conversion, and emperor's year list can be used online. What is particularly worth mentioning is that this advanced retrieval system can already implement all functions on ordinary MMS mobile phones.
Experts and scholars participating in the meeting pointed out that the publication of the online version of "The Classic of Chinese Studies" not only expanded and extended the influence of China's excellent traditional culture at home and abroad, but also gave it huge added value in creation and better dissemination. The excellent culture of the Chinese nation and the construction of socialist spiritual civilization provide modern technical support.
(End) (Source: Xinhuanet)