Since Historical Manuscripts are usually found as sole survivors in written copies, priority used to be given to preservation of them. In the wake of vitalized studies on local history and added values like cultural contents, however, emphasis is now ...
Since Historical Manuscripts are usually found as sole survivors in written copies, priority used to be given to preservation of them. In the wake of vitalized studies on local history and added values like cultural contents, however, emphasis is now shifted from preservation of Historical Manuscripts to their utilization. Meanwhile, the Management Law of Knowledge and Information Resources is legislated to digitalize Historical Manuscripts as part of historic data.
The present paper aims to explore the reality of web service for Historical Manuscripts, analyze the problems found in its current operation and present suggestions for its improvements.
The Chapter 2 of this paper examines in detail the Management Law of Knowledge and Information Resources and the integrated system of Korean history and information. The Management Law of Knowledge and Information Resources provides a basis on which the project of knowledge and information to proceed, while the integrated system of Korean history and information serves as a central information organ of Korean historical data by collecting meta data from professional information centers and offering web retrieval service in return. In this chapter, space is also allowed to investigating the types of service and retrieval functions performed by the integrated system of Korean history and information.
The Chapter 3 searches the types and problems of digitalized information service for archaic documents rendered by Seoul National University Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies, Chonbuk National University Museum, the Academy of Korean Studies and Korean Studies Advancement Center. Problems turned out to exist in that service is provided without taking particular features of archaic documents into consideration, users are confused with different method of classification and menu by different organizations, and that users are forced to install different viewers to tune in various forms of image viewers.
In the Chapter 4, it is suggested to introduce the standardized criteria in describing the historic records like ISAD(G), to unify image viewers and system of classifying archaic documents, and to comply with access to web and standards for digitalizing old documents, as a measure to solve the problems raised in the Chapter 3.
The present study reviews current reality and problems of web service involved in the organizations that conserve old documents and proposes to standardize web interface, description of lists and image structures as a solution to the problems brought forth in the analysis. It is hoped that these suggestions might be adopted to vitalize web service of archaic documents.