"Shanggu Huidian · Ancient Books Digital Service Platform" debuted in Shanghai, with a total expected scale of over 10 billion words. Technology | Culture | Shanggu

Release time:Apr 15, 2024 13:00 PM

The dissemination of excellent traditional Chinese culture is not a narrow path, but a thoroughfare. On August 25th, the "Shanggu Huidian Ancient Books Digital Service Platform", a comprehensive digital service platform for ancient books planned and designed by Shanghai Century Publishing Group, implemented by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, and fully developed, was officially unveiled at the Century Publishing Park. This platform is a key project of the National Ancient Books Work Plan for 2021-2035.

The "Shanggu Huidian" platform, which has undergone three years of planning and construction, aggregates high-quality ancient book resources. Based on digital technologies such as optical text recognition, big data, and artificial intelligence, it provides digital services for ancient book publishers, professional researchers, and traditional culture enthusiasts, empowering the compilation and publication of ancient books, academic research, and the dissemination of traditional Chinese culture. The "Shanggu Huidian" platform is planned to be constructed in stages, maintaining updates and improvements, and continuously providing users with richer, more professional, and more convenient ancient book knowledge services. The main goal of this stage is to fill the gap in digital resources of ancient books in the field of literature, history, and philosophy, enrich the content of platform literature, and provide services such as reading, searching, and soliciting ancient books.

"Shanggu Huidian · Ancient Books Digital Service Platform" debuted in Shanghai, with a total expected scale of over 10 billion words. Technology | Culture | Shanggu

At present, the online database includes a collection of classical literature and literature databases. The first and second phases mainly include the collection of ancient books published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, with a total of 1677 types of books stored, totaling 500 million words. The collected resources cover various parts of classics, history, books, and collections, including classic series such as "Chinese Classical Literature Collection", "Qing Poetry Talks", complete collections of historical masters, and local literature. The book preface, annotations, and proofreading results are fully preserved; The China Local Literature Library · Shanghai Literature Library, the first phase is based on the "Shanghai Prefectural and County Old Chronicles Series" compiled and published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House and Shanghai Local Chronicles Office, which includes a total of 88 books and more than 40 million words.

In the future, the "Shanggu Huidian" platform will continue to absorb high-quality ancient literature. In addition to the existing content of Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, it will also include ancient book publishing resources from relevant publishing houses inside and outside the Century Publishing Group, as well as the Yangtze River Delta region. It will gradually develop more distinctive thematic data banks, with an expected total size of over 10 billion words. Efforts will be made to improve the production mode of ancient book sorting and publishing workshops, shorten the production cycle of ancient book knowledge, and achieve the ultimate goal of upgrading the production mode and service mode of ancient book knowledge. In terms of commercial operations, in addition to database sales targeting institutional users such as B-end and individual users on C-end, we will also utilize the platform's modular technology development capabilities to provide technical development and high-quality data processing services for institutions and major social science projects.

Chen Yinchi, the director of the Fudan University Library, believes that Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House is one of the top publishers in traditional Chinese ancient book compilation. The "Shanggu Huidian" platform displays classic works published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, such as the "Chinese Classical Literature Series", through digital means, making it easy for readers to read and search. It is of great significance to further explore and fully utilize traditional ancient books.

Wuhan University Library is one of the first trial users of the "Shanggu Huidian" platform. Director Dong Youming stated that this platform has set a new example for the digital construction of ancient book sorting in the new era, and created new space for the inheritance and development of excellent traditional Chinese culture. We believe it will be welcomed by teachers and students.

Yang Haizheng, Deputy Director of the Chinese Ancient Literature Research Center at Peking University, commented that the "Shanggu Huidian" platform has three characteristics: firstly, it enables ancient book researchers to improve efficiency and obtain high-quality ancient book resources; Secondly, the core resources of the platform have established a model for ancient book sorting for researchers; Thirdly, the resources included in the platform are authoritative, high-quality, and comprehensive.

Fang Xiaoyi, Deputy Director of the Chinese Department and Institute of Ancient Books at East China Normal University, stated that the "Shanggu Huidian" platform is a "powerful tool" for scholars to organize and search for ancient books. It is rich in literature, reasonable in classification, accurate in text, and convenient in retrieval. High quality ancient book publications are the text foundation for the development of "Shanggu Huidian", and also a confidence guarantee for the academic community to use it with confidence.

"The current technological development has shown us more possibilities to 'bring the text in ancient books to life'. For example, through natural language processing and machine learning technology, semantic analysis and topic mining of ancient book texts can be carried out, identifying key concepts, themes, and relationships, and helping researchers discover knowledge and insights hidden in ancient books. With these technologies, we can extract themes from the treasure trove of Chinese culture, obtain inspiration, and provide knowledge services for smart cities, cultural tourism, and other fields." Lu Jian, President of Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, said that the knowledge service of ancient books cannot be separated from the understanding of resources and business insights into digital transformation. At the same time, the digitization of ancient books is a complex and lengthy undertaking that requires communication within and outside the industry. Collaboration. "Exploring deep integration publishing, injecting new vitality into the publication of traditional ancient books, promoting the inheritance and innovation of Chinese traditional culture, and revitalizing the vitality and value of ancient books. It not only provides rich, exciting, and high-quality cultural products for the vast audience, but also brings the charm of ancient books into modern life, making them shine brightly in the digital age."

According to Kan Ninghui, President of Shanghai Century Publishing Group, the "Shanggu Huidian" platform is one of the series of publishing projects that Century Publishing Group is transforming into digitalization and popularization around advantageous publishing fields and high-quality publishing resources. The currently released "Shanggu Huidian" platform is a phased achievement, and in the future, more products, tools, and sub projects suitable for more scenarios will continue to be promoted to the market and the public, for use by academia and various sectors of society.

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