When centuries-old books meet modern technology
Let the complicated historical context become
Touchable, perceptible, interactive
Peking University firmly grasps the new generation of information technology
Important opportunities for the development of the new liberal arts
Vigorously promote the construction of the digital humanities field
Today, Xiao Bei takes you closer
Peking University's First Digital Humanities Exhibition
"Song Yuanxue Case Knowledge Graph Visualization System"
"Travel" back to ancient times together
Who is Sima Guang's teacher? Who are the people in the same division?
Where has Su Shi traveled? Which characters are the different locations associated with?
What are the different schools of thought in the Song and Yuan dynasties? What kind of inheritance relationship is there between various types of disciples?
Have you ever seen the legendary "Song and Yuan Shengjing"?
……
These questions can be found in the "Song Yuanxue Case"
It's this "huge production."
The Case of Song Yuanxue is a book by Huang Zongxi during the Ming and Qing dynasties
The intellectual history of creation
It is described in a comprehensive and detailed manner
The school of thought at that time was the source of the stream
It is to understand and study the Song and Yuan dynasties
A must-read reference book for the history of academic thought
however!
This vast sea of 2.4 million words of ancient books
How to see at a glance
Under the brains of the north and the masters
"Song Yuanxue Case Knowledge Graph Visualization System"
Officially launched
Teachers and students drew pictures of the contents of the "Song Yuanxue Case"
Take you to feel the "new life" of ancient books
"Song Yuanxue Case" Knowledge Graph" website
"Song Yuanxue Case Knowledge Graph System"
Text processing and analysis of 2.4 million words
The person, time, place,
Writings, semantic relationships
Extracted and constructed into a knowledge graph
Provide visual representation and interactive browsing
Features such as semantic queries
Complicated study cases
Presented clearly in a knowledge graph-like way
A vivid transformation in the form of digital technology
Bring a rediscovery of the academic history of the Song and Yuan dynasties
You're away from the study of new ancient books
Just tap the mouse
A complete overview of the "Song Yuanxue Case"
The Remote Reads section uses visualizations
Take the river map, the tree map, the Sankey map
Overlooking the whole picture of the "Song Yuanxue Case"
It can be seen and felt
Here, digital and humanity meet
Enter historical figures from the Song and Yuan dynasties, such as "Zhu Xi", in the search box, and the "great disk" on the left will appear a relationship map related to Zhu Xi, including his protégés, peers, teachers, elders, and family schools. Xiao Bei exclaimed: It's so cool!
Scholar of the Song and Yuan dynasties
Converge into rivers
Quantitative evolution and academic heritage are on full display
The rise and fall of schools
Meandering and floating by
When the mouse touches the "river map", the number of scholars of each school in the "Song and Yuan Studies Case" changes with time, which allows us to more intuitively understand the rise and fall of the schools in the Song and Yuan dynasties.
Connected through the "doorman" relationship
Thousands of scholars painted towering trees
"Concentric circles of academic inheritance" are leafy and flourishing
The "tree-shaped diagram" of the circle and layer by layer like an annual ring shows the 1300 scholars connected by the "door-man" relationship in the "Song YuanXue Case". The mouse touches the different dots, and the teacher-slave relationship of the relevant historical figure is revealed.
Sankitu shows the Case of Song Yuanxue
Academic inheritance between schools
The complex relationships are instantly clear
Seeing this criss-crossing Sankey map, Xiao Bei couldn't help but sigh that "too 'advanced' to describe"! For example:
Clicking on "Obscure Weng" can be found that the Obscure Weng Xue Case (zhu Xi's school of thought) was previously related to the Yuzhang Xue Case and the Liu Hu Zhu Confucian Studies Case, and later had a considerable influence on eleven study cases such as Nanhu and Qian'an.
Pick your point of interest
People, places, events, doctrines
On the fun "Intensive Reading" page
You can choose as much as you like
Step into a feast of knowledge
In the character introduction section of the "Intensive Reading of Case Study" section, you can learn more about the biographical story of the character, the content of the study, the travels of the officials, and the preface to the study case.
A wealth of ancient books is gathered here
Look down the vine
Follow the scholar's footsteps
Read fragments of the essence of his doctrine
The network of academic relationships is spreading out
The change chart of the number of scholars in the Song Dynasty in the "Intensive Reading of Study Cases" section intuitively presents the changes in the number of scholars in different periods.
Background knowledge aids are also provided
Embark on an expedition from any dimension
All can quickly open up the whole picture
Comparison of era names, map of song dynasty, map of officials
Clearly rendered
The official diagram in the "Song and Yuan Studies Case" provides readers with information on the officials in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and the knowledge has increased!
Digital joins hands with humanities
Let the ancient classics experience
A vivid transformation of digitalization and knowledge
Multidisciplinary integration here
Break down disciplinary boundaries
Have a good time
The main creative team is here!
Peking University Digital Humanities (PKUDH) Open Lab is an interdisciplinary research institute with core members from multiple departments of Peking University, whose research directions include natural language processing, deep learning, ontology and knowledge graphs, information visualization, interaction design, and user information behavior research. Its purpose is to build an information infrastructure for the development of humanities in the digital environment and explore the data-driven humanities research paradigm in the intelligent era.
The "Song Yuanxue Case Knowledge Graph Visualization System" is the project with the longest investment time, the largest number of participants and the greatest impact in the open laboratory. After two years, the main creative team transformed the 2.4 million-word imperial masterpiece "Song Yuanxue Case" into a visual, interactive, and remotely readable digital humanistic work, so that ordinary people can also get a glimpse of the Mystery of Song Dynasty.