Abstract:

The construction of the literature database of the Republic of China is one of the important measures to protect the literature of that period. Although the digitalizing technology of the Republic of China literature has developed mature, many problems remain in the database construction work.
This paper, by studying and comparing the four representative databases of Shenbao, summarized their advantages and disadvantages in terms of collecting scope, retrieval and browsing functions. In light of the characteristics of the literature of Republic of China period as well as those of users, this paper discussed measures for improvement, which included coverage rate, quality of character recognition, the indexing and classification, user-friendliness of interface as well as retrieval function.

Key words: Shenbao, Literature of the Republic of China period, Document reorganization, Document protection, Construction of characteristic databases