Complex Spatial Digitization Tasks for the SAT Project

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The SAT project, which is digitizing the Taish Shinsh Daiz ky 大正新脩大藏經 in Japan, aims, in cooperation with the Chinese digital Buddhist canon society CBETA (located in Taiwan), at the construction of a new highly accurate electronic Buddhist canon. In the work of digitizing the Taish, we have already dealt with many of the basic problems, such as encoding and missing characters. But there are also very often more complex issues involved, such as in the case where the actual printed source has a wide range of spatial, graphically-oriented styles, which play a seminal role in expressing the author’s theme. In this paper, I would like to offer a means for resolving the complexities that arise in the digitization of a text such as Euisang’s Chart of the Dharma-realm of the Single Vehicle of the Huayan (화엄일승법계도, 華嚴一乘法界圖), and documents that include scores and other complex shapes found in the Taish. This will be done by using the markup method named SVG.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. Introduction: Limitation of Plain Text
• 2. Complex text encoding with SVG
• 2-1 SVG
• 2-2 The Chart in SVG
• 2-3 Is this a character?
• 2-4 Order of Characters
• 3. Conclusion