Development of Software Tools Useful for Oriental Studies

这个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，考古学等，鼓励有效使用先进的计算机应用程序。每年都为其他机构的研究人员举行一次会议，就研究成果发表演讲，并与各领域的研究工作者进行交流。讲座的内容已经印发。本论文的主要研究内容和结果如下：1.计算机信息处理技术的发展与应用。一个以个人计算机为基础的日本历史及其相关领域研究系统已经开发出来，并证明是有用的。该系统具有文本编辑、文本打印、历史经典文献快速检索等功能。现在和过去的地图都可以滚动显示。这一设施对历史地理学的研究是有用的.开发的软件已在Unix工作站的文件中移动，通过网络从远程终端使用已被证明是有用的和经济的人性化的研究.开发了一个只由汉字组成的经典文本的索引软件，并为一本世纪的重要历史书《Shokunihongui》编制了索引。这份索引将于1992年出版。该软件将被用来对其他经典文本进行索引。已为一部经典法律文本建立了一个数据库，称为三印法，这是泰国非常重要的法律文本。设计了一个汇编索引的软件，通过该软件，在泰国编制和出版了文本索引。该数据库可在京都大学数据处理中心联机检索。

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.