Development of Software Tools Useful for Oriental Studies

该项目的目的是为东方研究开发有用的软件工具，包括历史、文学、法律、考古等，以促进计算机先进应用的有效使用。每年举行一次大会，向其他机构的研究人员开放，就研究成果进行讲座，并与各领域的研究工作者进行交流。讲座的内容被印刷和分发。我们相信，它已经引起了广泛领域研究人员的注意，并刺激了先进的计算机应用。主要研究课题及成果如下：1.研究内容：一个以个人电脑为基础的研究日本历史及其相关领域的系统已经开发出来，并证明是有用的。该系统具有文本编辑、文本打印输出、历史经典文本快速检索等功能。现在和过去的地图都可以滚动显示图像。这个设施对历史地理学的研究很有用。所开发的软件已移植到Unix工作站的一个文件中，并通过网络在远程终端上使用，对人类研究具有实用和经济的意义。已经开发出了一种仅用汉字组成的经典文本的索引软件，并且已经制作了8世纪重要的历史书籍《Shokunihongui》的索引。这份汇编将于1992年出版。该软件将用于为其他经典文本做索引。一个名为《三印法》的经典法律文本已经建立了数据库，这在泰国是非常重要的文本。已经设计了一种汇编汇编索引的软件，通过该软件编写并在泰国出版了文本的索引。该数据库可在京都大学数据处理中心在线检索。

The purpose of this project is to develop useful software tools for oriental studies including history, Iiterature, law, archaeology, etc., to stimulate the effective usage of advanced applications of computers. Each year, an assembly open for researchers in other institutions has been held to give lectures on the research results and to communicate with research workers in various fields. The contents of lectures were printed and distributed. We are convinced that the attention of researchers in wide field has been attracted and the advanced computer applications have been stimulated.Main research subjects and results are as follows :1. A personal computer-based system for research in Japanese history and its related areas has been developed and shown to be useful. The system has the facilities such as text editing, text print-out, fast text search for classic documents in history. Scrolled image display was made possible for present and past maps. This facility is useful for the research in historical geography.2. The software developed has been moved in a file of a Unix workstation, and the use from remote terminals through network has been shown to be useful and economical for humanity studies.3. A software for producing concordance of classic text composed of Kanji characters only has been developed, and the concordance for an important history book in 8th century, called Shokunihongui has been produced. This concordance will be published in 1992. The software will be used to make concordances for other classic texts.4. A database has been made for a classic law text, called the Three Seals Law, which is very important text in Thailand. A software for the compilation of concordance has been designed, by which the concordance for the text was produced and published in Thailand. The database is retrievable on-line at the Data Processing Center, Kyoto University.